«I don’t see technology as a foreign object “impacting” and “transforming” social life and cultural patterns. Rather, the relationship between technology and society is more organic and co-constitutive. Technologies are objectifications of particular cultures and social relationships and, in turn, are incorporated into the stream of social and cultural evolution. In other words, Japanese technology and usage patterns are likely to replicate in other contexts only to the extent that there are similarities in the overall “technosocial” ecologies of mobile media practice and communication. Nothing “inherent” in the mobile handsets themselves is socially or culturally transformative.» Mizuko Ito, “Personal Portable Pedestrian: Lessons from Japanese Mobile Phone,” Japan Focus, October 30, 2005., in Lasica, 2007: 17