Here are additional cites of research on the users
of and environment for distributed mobile personal communication technologies,
or what Ron Rice and I shorthand as "Syntopia."
Katz, James E. Connections: Social and Cultural Studies of the
Telephone in American Life. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers,
1999.
Katz, James E. "Understanding Communication Privacy: Unlisted
Telephone Subscribers in the United States," The Information Society, 12
(4), 1996: 407-423.
Katz, James E. "Higher-Order Social Consequences of Widespread
Mobile Personal Communications," Pp. 91-120 in C. M. Firestone, The
Emerging World of Wireless Communications, (Queenstown, MD: The Aspen
Institute and Institute for Information Studies, 1996).
Katz, James E. and Philip Aspden "Theories, Data, and Potential
Impacts of Mobile Communications," Technological Forecasting and Social
Change, 57, 133-156, 1998.
Katz, James E. "Communication in the year 2075." Science and the
Future. Annual Supplement of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Chicago and London:
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1999.