Introduction: Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phone Communication Origins 1. The Slow Road to Tartarus: Technological Fetishism, Materiality, and the Trafficking in “Conflict Minerals” in the Eastern DR Congo 2. The role of mobile phones in the mediation of border crossings: A study of Haiti and the Dominican Republic 3. Bridges to Cash’: Channelling Agency in Mobile Money 4. Medialects in the Creation of Mayan Peer Cultures: Romantic Texting as a New Literacy Practice 5. Phone-made Poiesis: Towards an Ethnography of Call and Response 6. Technologically Mediated Sociality: Negotiating Culture, Communication, and Access 7. Safety, Sensemaking and Solidarity: Mobile Communication in the Immediate Aftermath of the July 22, 2011 Oslo Bombing 8. Piracy, Cloning, and Criminal Cats: The Discomforts of Cellularity in Brazil 9. Curating Visual Experiences through Mobile Phones 10. Intimate Materialities in Cell Phone Repair: Performance, Anxiety and Trust in DC Repair Shops 11. Cell Phone Antinomies: A Commentary