一、导言本文探讨在所谓的全球化时代移动电话(mobile phone)与社会发展之关系。近来,地区及地区特征引起了手机(cell phone)研究者的兴趣(Gergen,2002,2003)。值得注意的是,研究者们重新审视全球化(globalization),对此作了更为一般的社会学分析,即把它同地方联系起来,探讨全球与地方的关系。关于这一点,我们只需浏览一下2003年6月在挪威举行的研讨会“前台/后台:移动通信与社会转型”(Ling,Pedersen,forthcoming)。这一新的研究方向给整个 I. INTRODUCTION This article explores the relationship between mobile phones and social development in the so-called era of globalization. Recently, regional and regional features have drawn the interest of cell phone researchers (Gergen, 2002, 2003). It is noteworthy that researchers have re-examined globalization and made a more general sociological analysis of it by linking it to places and exploring the relationship between the world and the place. In this regard, we only have to take a look at the seminar held in Norway in June 2003 “Front Desk / Back Office: Mobile Communications and Social Transformation” (Ling, Pedersen, forthcoming). This new research direction to the whole