Interdisciplinary Mobile Media and Communications Social, Political, and Economic Implications

Xiaoge Xu , PhD, is the founder of Mobile Studies International, a global institute of mobile media and communication research. He has been passionately promoting and conducting Mobile Studies, an emerging and interdisciplinary discipline. Among his research and business activities are various projects ranging from mobile journalism to mobile government in collaboration with practitioners and professors of mobile media and communication around the world. In providing service to the mobile industry, he serves as the editor-in-chief of the Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication Book Series of IGI Global. He also serves as a consultant of China Mobile Labs. He is an associate professor in digital media and communication at the School of International Communications, the University of Nottingham, China Campus. His expertise lies mainly in comparative mobile studies, including mobile experience and mobile journalism.