Review article: Hoping they'll stand still long enough to study them: Cell phone users and their phones: Larissa Hjorth, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific: Gender and the Art of Being Mobile. London: Routledge, 2008, 320 pp. ISBN 13: 9780415438094, $150 (hbk) Rich Ling, New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008, 256 pp. ISBN 13: 9780262122979, $26.95 (hbk) Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner, Mobile Communication. Oxford: Polity, 2009, 200 pp. ISBN 13: 9780745644141, $22.95 (pbk)

Nathaniel Poor. Review article: Hoping they'll stand still long enough to study them: Cell phone users and their phones: Larissa Hjorth, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific: Gender and the Art of Being Mobile. London: Routledge, 2008, 320 pp. ISBN 13: 9780415438094, $150 (hbk) Rich Ling, New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008, 256 pp. ISBN 13: 9780262122979, $26.95 (hbk) Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner, Mobile Communication. Oxford: Polity, 2009, 200 pp. ISBN 13: 9780745644141, $22.95 (pbk). New Media & Society, 13(4):678-682, 2011. [doi]