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You're probably perfectly correct but justice delayed is likely justice forgotten in these cases. You're right but it's too bad you're right.

I suppose it's even possible the people behind Bush precipitated this world-wide economic crisis for this reason.

Certainly they knew the full extent of their crimes, even if we never will and the economic crisis just happens to do a grand job of covering all their asses!

I hate coincidences.

During the Clinton Administration, Congress set the stage for today's economic crisis. Many of the incompetents in Congress that fueled today's crisis are still in office.

I agree with popular opinion and the media that executive compensation in the financial sector is divorced from reality and unjustified but these compensation practices were set in motion by Congress. Two questions:

Why isn't the media focusing on Congressional culpability?

Can the editors of CNN, Money, and Fortune allow their commentators and reporters to perform a true root cause analysis of the current economic crisis?

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let me get this straight. The financial markets are crashing, this is the worst economic crisis since the great depression, BUT 600,000 people still manage to scrape together enough money to contribute 150 million dollars to Obama? I don't believe it. I've been saying since the primaries that this is the big story of this election. something dirty is going on.

He can get out of refunding "deposits" on the book by declaring personal bankrutpcy.

He can't declare business bankrupty because, as far as I am aware, he does not have any incorporated businesses.

Declaring bankruptcy is as easy as changing your name to "Mr. Manchester United". In fact I wonder if he has done it before? Has anyone got access to bankruptcy or public credit reports?

I notice from Insider's report that the house Oldham said he bought for cash is in his wife's name and has a Halifax mortgage. (He said the money came from winning a court action against rivals – he mentioned 50,000 quid – which is a nice round number.)

If he follows the pattern of other con men, he will have put most of his other assets in the names of his family to make it more difficult for creditors to collect from him even if they armed with court orders.

We only have his word that he returned "most" of the money he illegally took in for sales of shares in KopTalk. (He said it was about one million pounds).

It would be interesting to know who is the legal owner of all his video and computer equipment – the portakabin and the vehicles – is it paid for? Is it in his name? If it is he would need to transfer ownership – but in a way that does not look like the deliberate hiding of his assets to avoid creditors – before he declares bankruptcy.

If the tax people demand back payments he may have to sell assets. If its a question of drawing benefits while working and making big profits then I don't think paying back will help him. He'll ahev to do time. If that's the case – he would be better taking off to Malta or to be with Smoovy in the USA until it blows over.

I can well understand why he has suddenly started to say that payments to Koptalk are donations – it might help to confuse the enquiries from the benefits and tax people.

But he won't get away with word games like that – you can't state the price of membership and then say it is a donation.

let me get this straight. The financial markets are crashing, this is the worst economic crisis since the great depression, BUT 600,000 people still manage to scrape together enough money to contribute 150 million dollars to Obama? I don't believe it. I've been saying since the primaries that this is the big story of this election. something dirty is going on.

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It's interesting that while the US faces this economic crisis, many people fail to see or even don't care how this situation is interconnected globally. With the fall of one market, the next came qickly and swiftly with similar effects. But does this mean that the recovery of markets will follow the same path? Can one economy recover without the other?

Well, financial recovery is possible via? the car's insurance provider, but you know that already, I hope you spring back quickly.

Thank you!
One of the caveats it's that they don't have to talk about the "economic crisis" in their country. For example, they might have been mentioning the term regarding the Argentinian "economic crisis" (1999-2002). So, from this chart we can't draw that there is more "economic crisis" in the USA or in Denmark at any given time. We can only say that each key newspaper talked more about it. Anyways I completelly agree with you about the media and its presentation of the economic crisis. See my post http://carlos9900.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/media-people-stock-market-

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I just recently became Texas regional sales manager for a small company called HHOTek. They market green products which save money and reduce families' carbon footprint. It has become part of my own financial recovery and my contribution to a fist in the eye of foreign oil.My association with this company has caused me to reevaluate where and how I spend because of a greener awareness. If we are to have financial recovery in this country we are going to have to do it ourselves. One individual, one community one municipality, one county, one state at a time. Just one of the products this company markets has the (proven 30 year track record of success) ability to reduce the fuel (Gas, lpg, propane, diesel, boiler fuels) consumption of a municipal, county, state, federal fleet by a whopping 22%or more, Its American borne, American made. Can you imagine the effect this would have nation wide in saving oil and reducing vehicle pollution by up to 70% ? All done by Americans for Americans with no cap and trade laws, carbon offset bs. Just us deciding to put our money where our mouth is and reduce our dependence on Foreign Oil. Oh yeah, it would cost a measly $239.(Undoubtedly less as volume sales increase.) per vehicle to do this, has a lifetime replacement guarantee, is transferable to another vehicle. Oh yeah, it would amortize, in the majority of fleets well within the first year. Go ahead and let the rest of the world abandon the dollar as the currency for buying oil. Lets reduce our consumption through existing technology so we don't have to buy it from them. Lets reinvest in America's legendary ability to lead and innovate. I quit my job in the oil industry to do this because it appealed much more to me to reduce the use of oil than to contribute to the cost of the infrastructure to produce it. It is a finite resource and production of it here in West Texas is our economic life's blood. We need to make more judicious use of it. I saw in the local head office of a Large oil company, a map of our subterranean water table with a notation that it was projected to run dry by 2050. Water is a major factor in the production of oil, and the basis of all life. For me, I am saving as much carbon based energy as I can afford by being aware of my use and its long term effect. Like liberty, it starts at the grass roots level and goes from there. Join me won't you?

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I also agree with sentiments to encouraging more exports rather than imports and seriously considering regulation on transcontinental corporations. ?

i think the search for competent band members will be the most agonizing quest i'll ever endure

let me get this straight. The financial markets are crashing, this is the worst economic crisis since the great depression, BUT 600,000 people still manage to scrape together enough money to contribute 150 million dollars to Obama? I don't believe it. I've been saying since the primaries that this is the big story of this election. something dirty is going on.

Lessons – yes, you're right – now I'm talking only about your last paragraph. I understand it in relation to my academic departments (there are two). Both are fighting and both have two camps. One accepts that I am not in the fight and only have in mind getting work done. That means they don't give me s*** about the tie-breaking role I fall into: they in fact appreciate that the one who ends up mediating between the two camps has the actual work in mind, not something else. In the other, I don't actually agree with either side but had originally, passively, sided with the majority against utter outrageousness. Now I cannot tolerate the majority, either, they are locked into the battle not the work, and I see what the minority point of view is and why they hold it, although I do not agree with all of it, its motivations for action, or its methods. In this situation I'm sure I've *exactly* passed beyond the fences, in the way you suggest. I'm also sure others will – I'm only the first – or that others already have and I'm just not aware of that yet.

On your first paragraph, you're also exactly right, and I'll keep this in mind: it describes, precisely, the harassment I'm getting at work, in that department, about having passed beyond the fences. In that situation I completely see the comedy and while it's tense right now I am ultimately not worried because I see the comedy so well. That's what enables me to stay (now) unruffled and deal in a businesslike manner.

I have had trouble, though, applying all this to the ceramics studio since it's not my turf or area of expertise, whereas my departments are, and I'm a tenured person with some (small, but real) rights.
This ceramics situation is really symbolic of something at a deep level, gets at me at a primal level because of being trapped by a *couple* in between visions of what something should be and what it is.

Jennifer, yes, excellent. Again it is something I seem to be able to do as regards politics in my own offices but less well in the rest of life – except of course in hurricanes and earthquakes, where I'm an adept in the kind of responsiveness you suggest. Perhaps I could remember to emulate my most competent self. No, I take that back – one cannot be equally competent in all situations.

How strange – I really feel as though I've been through something in the past three days – and not something piddling but something real. You've all been incredibly helpful. Thank you. I've got one more piece to glaze, which I'll do on the watch of one safe teacher, and then pick it all up, under the watch of another, and then that'll be it.

im from the UK and im glad we are interviening however i would rather the coalition did not send in ground troops, the libyan rebels need be the ground force in this we can support with naval and airforce and maybe even arming the rebels im? not sure if that is a good idea or not but i don't think that sending in ground troops is the correct idea for any gov involoved there are too many resouces being used up by afganistan and iraq atm to start pumping are already thinly spread and tired troops

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1. BEING REAL IN THE MOBILE REEL: A CASE STUDY ON CONVERGENT MOBILE MEDIA AS DOMESTICATED NEW MEDIA IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
Larissa Hjorth. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia,
Convergence has become part of burgeoning mobile media. Whether we like it or not the mobile phone has become a vehicle for multimedia par excellence. Epitomising contemporary convergence by way of its smorgasbord of applications and multimedia possibilities, it seems almost impossible to get such a device just for voice calling without all the `extras'. But is mobile media a new emerging art form? Is it new media? Or is it a domestic technology? And in an age of convergent media can we distinguish the different media histories? As a symbol of convergent global media, mobile phone practices are also marked by divergence. This divergence is particularly the case in terms of the increasingly tenacious role of the local in informing and adapting the global. Thehistory of the mobile phone as a communication device inflects the localized practices of mobile multimedia, fusing communication with new media discourses. This article will discuss the rise of mobile communication studies and the role of locality, then turn to one of the centres for mobile innovation, Seoul, to discuss the role of mobile media as a domestic new media.
Key Words: domestic technologies • locality • mobile media • new media • remediation • South Korea
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 14, No. 1, 91-104 (2008)
2. THE MOBILE PHONE, PERPETUAL CONTACT AND TIME PRESSURE
Michael Bittman. University of New England,
Judith E. Brown. University of New England,
Judy Wajcman. London School of Economics and Political Science,
Mobile phone services are now universally diffused, creating the possibility of perpetual contact, regardless of time and location. Many think the impossibility of being ‘out of touch’ leads to increased time pressure. In addition to claims that the mobile phone has led to harried leisure, others have argued that perpetual contact extends work into the home or intensifies work in other ways. In this article, these issues are explored using survey data employing some novel methodologies — combining a questionnaire with logs of phone traffic recovered from respondents’ handsets and a purpose-designed time-diary of technology use. Overall, results show that mobile phone use is not associated with more harried leisure. Fears of work intruding into home life appear to be exaggerated. However, there is some evidence that frequent use of mobiles during working hours is associated with work intensification, at least among men.
Key Words: mobile phones • time-diary • time pressure • work intensification
Work, Employment & Society, Vol. 23, No. 4, 673-691 (2009)
3. UNTANGLING THE TECHNOLOGY CLUSTER: MOBILE TELEPHONY, INTERNET USE AND THE LOCATION OF SOCIAL TIES
Radhamany Sooryamoorthy. University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa,
B. Paige Miller. Louisiana State University, USA
Wesley Shrum. Louisiana State University, USA
Among the communication technologies introduced in the developing world during the past century, none has grown more rapidly than mobile telephony.Yet the impact of mobile phone use on social relationships has received limited systematic study. This article examines the factors associated with mobile phone usage in the south Indian state of Kerala and the social structural consequences of such usage, particularly the composition and location of the social ties maintained through mobile technologies. Bivariate analysis of mobile phone usage and network composition shows that frequent users have fewer local ties and more external ties than non-frequent users. However, these effects are due largely to the association of email and mobile phone use. The article shows that internet use increases, while mobile phone use decreases the geographical diversity of social ties. The implication is that mobile telephony and internet technologies may have different consequences for the globalization process.
Key Words: cellphone • email • ICTs • India • internet • Kerala • mobile phone • social networks
New Media & Society, Vol. 10, No. 5, 729-749 (2008)
4. 'WAITING FOR THE KISS OF LIFE': MOBILE MEDIA AND ADVERTISING
Rowan Wilken. University of Melbourne, Australia
John Sinclair. University of Melbourne, Australia,
Mobile media, especially cellphones, are now seen and heard everywhere, forming an intrinsic part of the daily lives and habits of billions of people worldwide. Curiously, despite this wide diffusion and remarkable rate of adoption, as an advertising platform the cellphone is, in the words of one commentator, still very much ‘a mass medium waiting for the kiss of life’. This article examines why this is the case, by exploring the ‘complex mobile phone ecosystem’ and the factors that contribute to the rather hesitant adoption of mobile advertising, with particular attention to the inherent conflicts amongst the interested parties in the system. It does this through a meta-analysis of themes and issues evinced in mainstream media and the advertising trade press. Study of this data is supplemented by drawing on a number of critical studies within the available research literature on the subject.
Key Words: advertising • cellphone • mobile media • phone
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 15, No. 4, 427-445 (2009)
5. MOBILE PHONE USE AMONG ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEMBERS: NEW SITES FOR RECOVERY
Scott W. Campbell. University of Michigan, USA, scamp10343@aol.com
Michael J. Kelley. Hawai'i Pacific University, USA,
This article reports on a line of research exploring mobile phone use in the recovery efforts of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) members. A preliminary investigation indicated that many individualsin AA have come to rely on the mobile phone for both instrumental and expressive recovery-related interactions. This article reports on follow-up initiatives to assess whether and how these forms of use are linked to its perceived value and explores more deeply how the technology is used in these ways. Using both quantitative and qualitative approaches, the study found that expressiveuse of the mobile phone made a particularly meaningful contribution to the perceived value of the technology as a tool for recovery. In addition, it uncovered ways that AA members are using mobilecommunication for social support and to stay connected with others in the program. The discussion offers implications of the findings and directions for future research.
Key Words: Alcoholics Anonymous • cellphone • mobile communication • mobile phone • mobile telephony • social support
New Media & Society, Vol. 10, No. 6, 915-933 (2008)
6. CONVERGENCE, CONNECTIVITY, AND THE CASE OF JAPANESE MOBILE GAMING
Dean Chan. Edith Cowan University
The specificities of Japanese mobile telephony are giving rise to new cultural economies of games production and engendering new paradigms of gameplay. These topical developments have considerable technosocial bearing and consequence. The tension between the virtual and the actual resides at the heart of topical debates about the modalities of co-presence in mobile telephony. The potential loss of anonymity in location-based mobile gaming and the increasing awareness that mobile games are mostly played at home add considerable complexity to the already-blurred boundaries of physical and virtual co-presence. The micronarratives of such newly configured and articulated social tropes arguably need to be incorporated into macroperspectives on convergence culture if only to invest the latter with additional levels of nuance and complexity. Japanese mobile gaming therefore has strategic utility in this article as a situated context for analyzing the localized cultural politics of convergence and connectivity in mobile telephony.
Key Words: convergence • connectivity • cross-media • Japan • mobile games
Games and Culture, Vol. 3, No. 1, 13-25 (2008)
7. A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF PERCEPTIONS AND USES OF MOBILE TELEPHONY
Scott W. Campbell. University of Michigan,
Drawing from the theoretical orientation of apparatgeist, this article explores the cultural similarities and differences in perceptions and uses of mobile telephony. A sample of collegestudents from Hawaii, Japan, Sweden,Taiwan and the US mainland was surveyed to assess: (1) perceptions of the mobile phone as fashion; (2) attitudes about mobile phone use in public settings; (3) use of the mobile phone for safety/security; (4) use of the mobile phone for instrumental purposes; and (5) use of the mobilephone for expressive purposes.The results indicate some differences and several similarities among the cultural groupings and help to lay the groundwork for future research and theory-building.
Key Words: apparatgeist • cell phone • mobile communication • mobile phone • mobile telephony
New Media & Society, Vol. 9, No. 2, 343-363 (2007)
8. MOBILE TV: OLD AND NEW IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EMERGENT TECHNOLOGY
Shani Orgad. London School of Economics and Political Science,
This article explores how mobile television is being constructed and understood, focusing on four concepts used in contemporary public debate to discuss the technology, namely 'TV in your pocket', 'TV anytime, anywhere', 'TV on the go', and 'Enhanced TV'. Drawing on an analysis of industry reports, conferenceproceedings, websites, academic studies, press coverage, results of trials, advertisements and expert interviews, we examine the ways in which experts involved in the production, marketing, delivery and analysis of mobile TV regard this emergent technology. It is argued that mobile TV is constructed by these experts as a novel technological and cultural experience and form, while at the same time the rhetoric of novelty is paralleled with a continuous emphasis on the new medium's relation to familiar technological worlds. The article concludes by offering an explanation for this new/old articulation of mobile TV.
Key Words: experts • mobile TV • novelty • old/new • social construction
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 15, No. 2, 197-214 (2009)
9. THE GAME OF BEING MOBILE: ONE MEDIA HISTORY OF GAMING AND MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES IN ASIA-PACIFIC
Larissa Hjorth. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia,
In media cultures of late, the synergy between two global dominant industries — mobile communication and gaming — has attracted much attention and stargazing. As part of burgeoning global media cultures, gaming and mobile media are divergent in their adaptation at the level of the local. In some locations where broadband infrastructure is strong and collectivity is emphasized (such as South Korea), online multiplayer games prevail. In locations where convergent mobile technologies govern (such as Japan), mobile gaming platforms dominate. In order to address the uneven adoption and definitions of mobilegaming, this paper will focus on the convergence between mobile technologies and gaming in the Asia-Pacific. By focusing on a phenomenon that prevails in both realms and cute culture, this paper will also consider how consumption and production of new technologies are conceptualized in the region. This paperargues that by looking at the phenomenon of cute culture, we can gain insight into the divergent definitions of gaming and mobility in the region, which in turn reflect the continuing localized nature of contemporary global culture.
Key Words: Asia-Pacific • cute culture • gender • kawaii (cute) • mobile gaming • new media
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 13, No. 4, 369-381 (2007)
10. PREMIUM RATE CULTURE: THE NEW BUSINESS OF MOBILE INTERACTIVITY
Gerard Goggin. University of Sydney, Australia,
Christina Spurgeon. Queensland University of Technology, Australia,
This article considers a neglected but crucial aspect of the new business of mobile interactivity: the premium rate data services industry. It provides an international anatomy of this industry model and the ways in which it has been used to capitalize upon the surprising success of short message service (SMS) to provide a basis for the development of consumer markets for mobile data services. It situates this analysis within a wider consideration of the role of premium rate culture in the social shaping of interactivity in convergent media. Specifically, it looks at how premium rate services are being constructed in relation to telecommunications, television and the internet. The article concludes that although premium rate culture has rejuvenated innovation in broadcast television, potentially it may constrain the interactive potential of the mobile internet.
Key Words: interactivity • mobile internet • mobile messaging • mobile phones • premium mobile services • premium rate telecommunications • SMS
New Media & Society, Vol. 9, No. 5, 753-770 (2007)
11. 3G TO WEB 2.0? CAN MOBILE TELEPHONY BECOME AN ARCHITECTURE OF PARTICIPATION?
Jason Wilson. University of Luton, UK
Telecommunications companies (telcos) paid too much for European 3G licences on the basis that they would be able to reach mobile consumers directly with web content. The subsequent reluctance of consumers to pay for commercial content and the debts and devaluations afflicting the post-tech-boom telcos has had several consequences. Besides an undercapitalized 3G infrastructure, there has been increasing consternation about the absence of a must-have service ‘killer app’ that would lead to the uptake of 3G products, and determined efforts to find one, as evidenced at events like ‘Mobile Content World’, an industry conference and trade fair held in London in October 2005. But the efforts to sell 3G spectrum (and the entire 3G experiment) may be based on a misapprehension of the nature of users’ relationships with ICTs and web content. This article presents an overview and commentary on the progress of the 3G mobile content industry. In part it is based on a review of presentations at ‘Mobile Content World’, and in part on a review and synthesis of the most recent literature covering 3G and mobile content from the fields of media studies,cultural studies, economics and business.
Key Words: 3G mobiles • mobile content • mobile telephones • user-generated content • web 2.0
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 12, No. 2, 229-242 (2006)
12. ASPECTS OF THE SEQUENTIAL ORGANIZATION OF MOBILE PHONE CONVERSATION
Ian Hutchby. Simone Barnett. Brunel University
This article presents an investigation of the organization and structures of talk-in-interaction over mobile phone. The analysis is based upon naturally occurring data consisting of a corpus of calls recorded during everyday activities of a young adult. Using these data we reveal a range of sequential phenomena associated with mobile phone usage. Established conversation analytic work on landline telephone conversation is used in order to build a comparative analysis of how actions such as openings, caller–called identity management, and topic introduction are accomplished in mobile vs landline telephone conversation. We first show that, far from revolutionizing the organization of telephone conversation, mobile phone talk retains many of the norms associated with landline phone talk. Subsequently, focusing on those modifications that are identifiable in our data, we show how these are related to aspects of the communicative affordances of mobile phones, orientations to which are observable in the talk of participants in mobile phone conversation.
Key Words: affordances • conversation analysis • mobile telephony • new communications technologies • telephone conversation
Discourse Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 147-171 (2005)
13. OLD WINE IN A NEW TECHNOLOGY, OR A DIFFERENT TYPE OF DIGITAL DIVIDE?
Shelia R. Cotton. University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA,
William A. Anderson. University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA,
Zeynep Tufekci. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA,
Gender differences exist in both general and specific uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Most of this research has focused on computers and the internet to the exclusion of mobile phones. Little research has examined gender differences in specific types of mobile phone usage, especially among youth. This issue is examined using data from a random sample of middle-school students. Although gender differences exist at the bivariate level, the picture changes in multivariate models. Boys exhibited greater frequency of use for non-social, gadget-like features of mobile phones; no gender differences existed in more traditionalcommunicative mobile phone uses.
Key Words: digital divide • gender • mobile phone • youth
New Media & Society, Vol. 11, No. 7, 1163-1186 (2009)
14. FAMILIES WITHOUT BORDERS: MOBILE PHONES, CONNECTEDNESS AND WORK-HOME DIVISIONS
Judy Wajcman. Australian National University, Australia,
Michael Bittman. University of New England, Australia,
Judith E. Brown. University of New England, Australia,
This article examines the widespread proposition that the mobile phone dissolves the boundaries that separate work and home, extending the reach of work. It analyses data derived from apurpose-designed survey to study social practices surrounding mobile phone use.The key components of the survey investigated here are a questionnaire and a log of phone calls retrievedfrom respondents' handsets. Rather than being primarily a tool of work extension, or even a tool that facilitates greater work-family balance, we show that the main purpose of mobile phone callsis to maintain continuing connections with family and friends. Our findings suggest that individuals exert control over the extent to which calls invade their personal time, actively encouraging deeper contacts with intimates.
Key Words: mobile phones • social contact • work-family balance
Sociology, Vol. 42, No. 4, 635-652 (2008)
15. THE BIOPOLITICS OF TECHNOCULTURE IN THE MUMBAI ATTACKS
Caren Kaplan. Cultural Studies Graduate Group,
In the case of the attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 two primary discourses generative of biopolitics in the global matrix of war can be identified as a framework of knowledge about mobiletechnologies: first, that national security is threatened by the use of digital information technologies heavily symbolized by the use of mobile devices and the perceived manipulation of otherwise neutral forms of media by those deemed to be enemies; and, second, that national security is enhanced by the utilization of these technologies on the level of individuals and non-state groups within the nation to better practice democracy and to identify as citizen-consumer subjects. In the global matrix of war, the emphasis on digital information technologies and new media — especially mobile iterations — as weapons has generated the subjects of globalized and local technoculture in historically specific, militarized directions. In this context, contemporary media operate in ways that call for critical engagement rather than romanticization of a purely emancipatory sphere of social networking over and against a fully networked, enemy ‘other’.
Key Words: biopolitics • digital democracy • global • mobile • network • technoculture • war
Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 26, No. 7-8, 301-313 (2009)
16. MOBILE PHONE CALL OPENINGS: TAILORING ANSWERS TO PERSONALIZED SUMMONSES
Ilkka Arminen & Minna Leinonen. UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE, FINLAND
Conversation analytical (CA) methodology was used to specify the new opening practices in Finnish mobile call openings, which differ systematically from Finnish landline call openings. Since the responses to a mobile call orient to the summons identifying the caller, answers have changed and diversified. A known caller is greeted. The self-identification opening that was canonical in Finnish landline calls is mainly used for answering unknown callers, while channel-opener openings involve orientation to ongoing mutual business between the speakers. Some of these changes reflect real-time coordination of the social action that the mobility of mobile phones enables. In all, the adoption of new ways of answering a call shows that people orient themselves to affordances that new technologies allow them. Mobile phone communication opens a salient new area both for the analysis of talk-ininteraction itself and also for understanding communicative behaviour in the era of ubiquitous information technology.
Key Words: affordances • call opening • conversation analysis • mobile phone calls • recipient-design • telephone calls
Discourse Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3, 339-368 (2006)
17. MOBILES EVERYWHERE: YOUTH, THE MOBILE PHONE, AND CHANGES IN EVERYDAY PRACTICE
Eva Thulin. Box 630, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. [email:
Bertil Vilhelmson. Spatial Mobility Research Group. Box 630, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. [email:
This article explores how young people's everyday patterns of social communication are affected by the increased use of mobile phones. We discuss three areas in which there are potentialimplications: (i) contact patterns and face-to-face interaction; (ii) other forms of spatial mobility; and (iii) individual planning and use of time. Empirically, we focus on change and rely on a two-wave panel study of 40 young persons living in Göteborg, Sweden. Data were collected through time-use diaries and in-depth interviews. The results show that young people's total interactions with their social environment increase as the mobile promotes a flexible lifestyle of instant exchange and constant updates. Thresholds — regarding space, time and content — for communicative action are reduced. A more impulsive practice of decision-making evolves and people become more careless about time-keeping. With the reduction in the constraints of time and space, the instant access of the mobile becomes difficult to refuse, and perceived dependency on mobiles increases.
Key Words: everyday life • mobile phone • young people • social communication • use of time • contacts • information communication technologies • Sweden
Young, Vol. 15, No. 3, 235-253 (2007)
18. FROM CYBER TO HYBRID: MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES AS INTERFACES OF HYBRID SPACES
Adriana de Souza e Silva. North Carolina State University
Hybrid spaces arise when virtual communities (chats, multiuser domains, and massively multi-player online role-playing games), previously enacted in what was conceptualized as cyberspace, migrate to physical spaces because of the use of mobile technologies as interfaces. Mobile interfaces such as cell phones allow users to be constantly connected to the Internet while walking through urban spaces. This article defines hybrid spaces in the light of three major shifts in the interaction between mobile technology and spaces. First, it investigates how the use of mobile technologies as connection interfaces blurs the traditional borders between physical and digital spaces. Second, it argues that the shiftfrom static to mobile interfaces brings social networks into physical spaces. Finally, it explores how urban spaces are reconfigured when they become hybrid spaces. For this purpose, hybrid spaces are conceptualized according to three distinct but overlappingtrends: hybrid spaces as connected spaces, as mobile spaces, and as social spaces.
Key Words: hybrid spaces • mobile technologies • cell phones • interfaces • mobility • connection • sociability
Space and Culture, Vol. 9, No. 3, 261-278 (2006)
19. LIFESTYLES AND NEW MEDIA: ADOPTION AND USE OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN CHINA
Ran Wei. University of South Carolina, USA
This study examines the relationships between the lifestyles of urban Chinese consumers and the adoption and use of pagers and mobile phones. Based on a probability sample of 7094 respondents from China’s seven most prosperous cities, results show that the respondents identified as yuppies tended to integrate pagers and mobile phones into their conspicuous,westernized and socially active lifestyle. Adopting a pager and mobile phone is found to be a means to achieve social differentiation and identity among this lifestyle segment. The study demonstrates the utility of segmentation analysis in delineating complex relationships among demographics, lifestyles and adoption and use of new media.
Key Words: adoption • diffusion of innovations • lifestyle • mobile phone • pager • segmentation
New Media & Society, Vol. 8, No. 6, 991-1008 (2006)
20. REAL TIME AND RECALL MEASURES OF MOBILE PHONE USE: SOME METHODOLOGICAL CONCERNS AND EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS
Akiba A. Cohen. Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dafna Lemish. Tel Aviv University, Israel
This article discusses the development, reliability, and validity of real-time measures of mobile phone use by means of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology, in comparison with traditional questionnaire-generated recall measures. The sample consisted of 211 Israeli adult mobile phone subscribers subdivided by gender and by the amount of airtime that they normally use. The measurements were applied to three questions to which the participants responded via IVR following their incoming and outgoing mobile phone calls during a five-day period: the identity of the person with whom they spoke; their location during the call; and the urgency of the call. These data were compared with recall measures obtained earlier from questionnaires. The article discusses the merits of the IVR real-time data versus those obtained from traditional recallquestions asking for past or habitual behaviors.
Key Words: gender • Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology • Israel • mobile phone • real-time measurement • recall measurement
New Media & Society, Vol. 5, No. 2, 167-183 (2003)
21. SEQUENTIAL ORDER AND SEQUENCE STRUCTURE: THE CASE OF INCOMMENSURABLE STUDIES ON MOBILE PHONE CALLS
Ilkka Arminen. UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE
Two recent conversation analytical (CA) studies draw contrary conclusions from seemingly very similar materials. Hutchby and Barnett ‘show that, far from revolutionizing the organization of telephone conversation, mobile phone talk retains many of the norms associated with landline phone talk’. Arminen and Leinonen, however, state that landline and mobile calls differ systematically from each other. These incommensurate findings raise the question of why thecomparisons between landline and mobile call openings have not been able to determine whether social and communicative practices are changing. It is suggested that auxiliary elements in CA allow the emergence of incompatible findings. The auxiliary assumptions enable authors to construct the phenomenon examined from their chosen perspective. Further, it will be shown that unquestioned assumptions materialize into theoretical notions that guide the research. CA studies seem to conceptualize the relationship between sequential order and sequence structure in different ways, which leads to different findings and results.
Key Words: callopenings • conversation analysis • mobile call openings • mobile phones • sequential order • sequence structure
Discourse Studies, Vol. 7, No. 6, 649-662 (2005)
22. 'CONNECTED PRESENCE' IN DISTRIBUTED FAMILY LIFE
Toke Haunstrup Christensen. Aalborg University, Denmark,
Concurrent with the explosive pervasion of information and communication technologies in recent years, mediated communication has gained a strong position in the daily interaction between family members. Based on the results of qualitative interviews with families in Denmark, this article shows how the mobile phone is used by parents and children to mediate a feeling of closeness while they are physically separated. This practice of `connected presence' is based on frequent calls and text messages between parents and children as well as between parents themselves. The article also analyses families' use of the mobile phone in the context of modern family life, emphasizing the importance of the temporal and spatial dispersion of family members in explaining the form and content of intra-familial mediated communication. Finally, the dual role of media technologies (including the mobile phone) in both integrating and dispersing families is discussed.
Key Words: everyday life • mediated communication • mobile phones • modern family life • presence
New Media & Society, Vol. 11, No. 3, 433-451 (2009)
23. HYBRID REALITY GAMES REFRAMED: POTENTIAL USES IN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS
Adriana de Souza e Silva. North Carolina State University
Girlie C. Delacruz. University of California, Los Angeles
Hybrid reality games (HRGs) employ mobile technologies and GPS devices as tools for transforming physical spaces into interactive game boards. Rather than situating participants in simulated environments, which mimic the physical world, HRGs make useof physical world immersion by merging physical and digital spaces. Online multiuser environments already connect users who do not share contiguous spaces. With mobile devices, players may additionally incorporate interactions with the surrounding physical space. This article is a speculative study about the potential uses of HRGs in education, as activities responsible for taking learning practices outside the closed classroom environment into open, public spaces. Adopting the framework of sociocultural learning theory, the authors analyze design elements of existing HRGs, such as mobility and location awareness, collaboration/sociability, and the configuration of the game space, with the aim of reframing these games into an educational context to foresee how futuregames might contribute to discovery and learning.
Key Words: hybrid reality games • hybrid spaces • mobile technologies • urban spaces • problem solving • situated learning • collaboration • educational technology
Games and Culture, Vol. 1, No. 3, 231-251 (2006)
24. MAPPING FOOTPRINTS: A SONIC WALKTHROUGH OF LANDSCAPES AND CULTURES
Francesca Veronesi. University of Sydney, Australia,
Petra Gemeinboeck. University of Sydney, Australia,
Mobile, location-aware technologies are cultural tools for the re-enactment, re-embodiment and recontextualization of history and memory in our everyday life.The transformative potential of spatial practices that creatively employ these technologies can renegotiate our experience of place by allowing us to co-inhabitpast and present storied spaces of different cultures. The research projectMapping Footprints explores alternative means of knowing and making place through a spatial practice which mediatizes heritage conservation sites with archival records. In the context of Elvina site, a heritage place of Aboriginal culture in Sydney, we experiment with a place-making practice where the re-storing of memory renegotiates archived oral histories and the geography of thesite. We will look at the role of mediation, performativity, and representation in shaping both the development process and the experience of this augmented, storied landscape.
Key Words: Aboriginal • cultural memory • locative media • mobile • place • site
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 15, No. 3, 359-369 (2009)
25. MOBILE COMMUNICATION AS A SOCIAL STAGE: MEANINGS OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE AMONG TEENAGERS IN FINLAND
Virpi Oksman. University of Tampere, Finland
Jussi Turtiainen. University of Tampere, Finland
The spread of mobile communication among Finnish teenagers has been markedly rapid during the latter half of the 1990s. Young people have created and developed a communication culture that incorporates many special features, such as a rise in the use of text-based communication channels. Teenagers’ intersecting and selective use of communication channels has generated multimedial communication. From the theoretical standpoint provided by symbolic interactionism, we can ask whether communication through new media technologies generates new forms of social interaction. If this is the case, how could we describe and analyse these new forms of interaction? The media landscapes created by teenagers serve to articulate their personal space, as well as enabling their presentation of self and defining their relationships to others. This article is based on thematic interview material, and its purpose is to analyse the meanings and use contexts of mobile communication and other multimedial communication culture among Finnishyouth.
Key Words: everyday life • family context • mobile communication • multimedial communication • peer-group relations • selfpresentation • youth
New Media & Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, 319-339 (2004)
26. THE MAKING OF NEO-CONFUCIAN CYBERKIDS: REPRESENTATIONS OF YOUNG MOBILE PHONE USERS IN SOUTH KOREA
Kyongwon Yoon. Korea University, South Korea
This article addresses how young people are represented in popular discourses of mobile phone technology and what this representation implies for the local positioning of youth. After reviewing the ways in which representations of youth and technology have been discussed in previous studies, the research reported in this article analyzes different discursive constructions of young mobile phone users in South Korea between 1997 and 2002. The study finds that the different streams of discourse in government documents, the mass media and consumer culture appear to reflect widespread anxieties in Korea about becoming involved in ‘global’ material culture and seek to counter this tendency through rearticulating hegemonic social relations.
Key Words: consumption • Korea • mobile phone • representation • technology • youth
New Media & Society, Vol. 8, No. 5, 753-771 (2006)
27. MOBILE PHONES AS FASHION STATEMENTS: EVIDENCE FROM STUDENT SURVEYS IN THE US AND JAPAN
JAMES E. KATZ
Satomi Sugiyama. Rutgers University, USA
Motivated by new theoretical perspectives that emphasize communication technology as a symbolic tool and physical extension of the human body and persona (Apparatgeist theory andMachines That Become Us), this article explores how fashion, as a symbolic form of communication, is related to self-reports of mobile phone behaviors across diverse cultures. A survey of college students in the United States and Japan was conducted to demonstrateempirically the relationship between fashion attentiveness and the acquisition, use, and replacement of the mobile phone. The results suggested that young people use the mobile phone as a way of expressing their sense of self and perceive others through a ‘fashion’ lens. Hence it may be useful to investigate further how fashion considerations could guide both the rapidly growing area of mobile phone behavior, as well as human communication behavior more generally.
Key Words: fashion • Japan • mobile phone • technology • United States
New Media & Society, Vol. 8, No. 2, 321-337 (2006)
28. LOVE MESSAGING: MOBILE PHONE TXTING SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF TANKA POETRY
Sunil Manghani. York St John University,
The article examines the nature of mobile phone text messaging, or `txting', in the context of a discourse of love. It draws links between the txt message and the much older, revered form of love messaging, Japanese tanka poetry. In cutting across both a historical and technological divide, it seeks to elucidate a more subtle understanding of how text messaging — from a literary perspective — plays its part in amorous exchange and argues how it has the capacity to enable individuals to affirm their own private thoughts, feelings and anxieties. Taking a cue from Michel Foucault's late work, concerned with the philosophical precept of `care of the self', the article argues that these differing forms of exchange — as `tender' technologies of the self and inter-subjectivity — go beyond any one medium or age of media. Aspects of our relationships are worked out in the silent confines of being alone with text and, in the case today, with text messaging, making for the potential of a new poetics of time and space. While we cannot free ourselves from the lover's code or discourse, there is the potential for an affirmation of our part in its production, which prompts a question about how we might go on to research the currentlymissing archive of text messaging.
Key Words: archive • Barthes • discourse of love • Foucault • Luhmann • mobile phones • tanka • text messaging
Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 26, No. 2-3, 209-232 (2009)
29. STATE, POWER AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION: A CASE STUDY OF CHINA
Jia Lu. Texas A&M University, USA,
Ian Weber. Texas A&M University, USA,
China's telecommunications and information industry has seen unprecedented growth since the turn of the century, with the mobile telephony sector driving significant expansion. This article examines the Chinese government's strategy for managing the complexities of socio-economic changes created by the widespread adoption of mobile telephony. The study found that the government's adoption of subtler forms of power establishes a relational contract with Chinese telecommunications and information industry partners and citizenry as a foundation for implementing the strategy of controlled commodification. This contract acts to modify and clarify operational boundaries within private and public spheres in an attempt to manage often competing economic, social and political objectives.
Key Words: China • commodification • control • mobile telecommunications • telephony
New Media & Society, Vol. 9, No. 6, 925-944 (2007)
30. WHO ARE THE MOBILE PHONE HAVE-NOTS?: INFLUENCES AND CONSEQUENCES
Louis Leung. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ran Wei. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Grounded in the diffusion of innovations theoretical framework, this study focuses on examining who the mobile telephone have-nots are and what are the factors at work. Results of a telephonesurvey with a probability sample of 834 respondents show that the have-nots tended to be older females with lower household income and education attainment. They had pagers as an alternative and subscribed to no caller ID display service at home. This study also found a polarizing phenomenon in owning new telecommunications technologies. With the poor becoming poorer, the gap between haves and have-nots is widening. A hierarchy of relative influences on the intention to adopt a mobile phone suggests that the effects of age and social differences far outweigh that of the technological differences.
Key Words: diffusion of innovations • haves and have-nots • information gap • mobile phone
New Media & Society, Vol. 1, No. 2, 209-226 (1999)
31. SOCIAL NETWORKS AND CELLPHONE USE IN RUSSIA: LOCAL CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
Markku Lonkila. University of Helsinki, Finland,
Boris Gladarev. Centre of Independent Social Research, St Petersburg, Russia
Despite the rapid expansion of cellphone use, academic research has paid little attention to mobile telecommunications in Russia. This article examines the adoption and use of cellphones among young Russian adults through social network data and qualitative interviews conducted in St Petersburg in 2003. The study describes the role of personal networks in the purchasing decision, depicts the practices and social rules of cellphone use and investigates the differences between cellphone and landline phone connections. The results are discussed with reference to social consequences such as the individualizing and controlling effects of cellphone use in post-Soviet Russia.
Key Words: cellphones • mobile telecommunications • post-Soviet Russia • social networks
New Media & Society, Vol. 10, No. 2, 273-293 (2008)
32. LOCAL SOCIALITY IN YOUNG PEOPLE’S MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS: A KOREAN CASE STUDY
Kyongwon Yoon. Korea University
Drawing upon ethnographic data, this article explores how young Koreans appropriate mobile phones. By examining the role of local norms of sociality among young people, the study shows that this ‘individualizing’ technology is articulated through ‘traditionalizing’ forces. Despite dominant representations of young people’s individualization via the popular use of new technologies, young Koreans in the study internalize and negotiate local norms of socialityemphasizing collective harmony based upon self-regulation. This implies that young people’s use of ‘new’ technology is integrated with the ‘old’ contexts.
Key Words: individualization • Korean youth • local sociality • mobile phones
Childhood, Vol. 13, No. 2, 155-174 (2006)
33. MOBILE PHONE COMMUNICATION: EXTENDING GOFFMAN TO MEDIATED INTERACTION
Ruth Rettie. Kingston University,
Mediated interaction has become a feature of everyday life, used routinely to communicate and maintain contacts, yet sociological analysis of mediated communication is relatively undeveloped.This article argues that new mediated communication channels merit detailed sociological analysis, and that interactional differences between media have been overlooked. Goffman explicitly restricted his interaction order to face-to-face interaction.The article adapts some of Goffman's interactional concepts for synchronous mediated interaction, but argues that his situational focus is less relevant to asynchronous media. The theoretical approach developed is illustrated and supported by qualitative research on mobile phones, which fortuitously afford both synchronous and asynchronous communication.The study suggests that although the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous interaction is important, it is not technologically determined, but shaped by interactional norms.
Key Words: Goffman • interaction order • mediated communication • mobile phones • new media • SMS • synchrony
Sociology, Vol. 43, No. 3, 421-438 (2009)
34. COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN THE WIRELESS CITY: WI-FI USE IN PUBLIC AND SEMI-PUBLIC SPACES
Keith N. Hampton. University of Pennsylvania, USA,
Neeti Gupta. Microsoft, USA
A significant body of research has addressed whether fixed internet use increases, decreases or supplements the ways in which people engage in residential and workplace settings, but few studies have addressed how wireless internet use in public and semi-public spaces influences social life. Ubiquitous wi-fi adds a new dimension to the debate over how the internet may influence the structure of community.Will wireless internet use facilitate greater engagement with co-located others or encourage a form of 'public privatism'? This article reports the findings of an exploratory ethnographic study of how wi-fi was used and influenced social interactions in four different settings: paid and free wi-fi cafes in Boston, MA and Seattle,WA.This study found contrasting uses for wireless internet and competing implications for community.Two types of practices, typified in the behaviors of 'true mobiles' and 'placemakers', offer divergent futures for how wireless internet use may influence social relationships.
Key Words: community network • cafes • coffee shops • network • mobile computing • Muni wi-fi • parochial realm • privatism • social neworks • third places
New Media & Society, Vol. 10, No. 6, 831-850 (2008)
35. MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKS AND URBAN PUBLIC SPACE
Lee Humphreys. Cornell University
The development and proliferation of mobile social networks have the potential to transform ways that people come together and interact in public space. These services allow new kinds of information to flow into public spaces and, as such, can rearrange social and spatial practices. Dodgeball is used as a case study of mobile social networks. Based on a year-long qualitative field study, this article explores how Dodgeball was used to facilitate social congregation in public spaces and begins to expand our understanding of traditional notions of space and social interaction. Drawing on the concept of parochial space, this article examines how ideas of mobile communication and public space are negotiated in the everyday practice and use of mobile social networks.
First published on February 9, 2010. New Media & Society 2010
36. MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: AN ANALYSIS OF GEOGRAPHICALLY DIFFERENTIATED USAGE PATTERNS
Scott W. Campbell and Nojin Kwak. University of Michigan.
Drawing from a representative sample of adults in the USA, this study explored the links between mobile communication and selectindicators of social capital, while also accounting for usage patterns regarding the proximity of mobile contact. Overall, the findings show that mobile phone use intersects with proximity in distinctive ways that are related to spending leisure time with others in a face-to-face context and being active in organized groups and clubs. For individuals with primarily local usage patterns, both voice calling and text messaging were positively associated with social leisure activity. For those who primarily used the mobile phone to contact others from a distance, textmessaging was positively related to social leisure activity, and for those whose mobile contacts were balanced between local and distant, voice calling was positively associated with active membership in organizations. Interpretation of these findings and directions for future research are offered in the discussion.
first published on february 2, 2010. New Media & Society 2010.
37. JAPAN'S MOBILE TECHNOCULTURE: THE PRODUCTION OF A CELLULAR PLAYSCAPE AND ITS CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS
Michal Daliot-Bul. HAIFA UNIVERSITY, ISRAEL,
The reception of mobile communication and internet by Japan’s youth in the late 1990s has determined the shaping of the mobile communication market in this country. From a business-oriented device, mobile phones were transformed into an intensely personal part of the users’lives, particularly notable for offering a spectacular interactive playscape that challenges the tyranny of everyday life. Rather than being a trivial mechanism of stress release or a means to make the in-between temporalities of everyday life more enjoyable, this playscape has come to be a cultural arena that both reflects as well as induces socio-cultural change. In reconstructing the cultural production of Japan’s cellular playscape, this article focuses on two sets of issues. The first is the contextualization of the mobile communication market in Japan within broader cultural processes in which youths have become the new cultural avant-garde of urban lifestyles. The second is an analysis of how the merging of play into everyday life through mobile communication technologiesis creating new modes of relating to the social, technological and urban environments.
Key Words: cultural change • emotions as social practice • late consumer culture • urban lifestyles • youth popular cultures
Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 29, No. 6, 954-971 (2007)
38. THE MOBILE PHONE AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE: MOBILE PHONE USAGE IN THREE CRITICAL SITUATIONS
Janey Gordon. University of Bedfordshire, UK,
This article seeks to explore the influence of the mobile phone on the public sphere, in particular with regard to its effect on news agendas, gatekeepers and primary definers. Using the examples of the Chinese SARS outbreak (2003), the south-east Asian tsunami(December 2004) and the London bombings (July 2005), the author questions the extent to which the mobile phone is challenging conventional and official sources of information. At times of national and personal calamity, the mobile phone is used to document and report events from eyewitnesses and those closely involved. Using multimedia messages (MMS) or text messages (SMS) to communities of friends and families, as well as audio phone calls, mobile phone users may precede and scoop official sources and thwart censorship and news blackouts. They can also provide valuable evidence of what actually occurred. Users are able to take pictures and short films and transmit these rapidly to others along with reports of what is happening where they are; they are also able to access other media broadcasts and the internet. They are what have become known as `citizen journalists'. The evidence suggests that mobile phone usage is contributing to the public sphere and in some instances is circumventing official repression or inadequate information. There is also an indication that the `mobcam' is capturing images that would otherwise be lost. However, the mainstream media has been quick to take advantage of this citizen journalism and mediate it within its own parameters.
Key Words: cell phone • citizen journalism • public sphere
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 13, No. 3, 307-319 (2007)
39. MOBILE PERFORMANCES OF A TEENAGER: A STUDY OF SITUATED MOBILE PHONE ACTIVITY IN THE LIVING ROOM
Dylan Tutt
This article emphasises the situated character of domestic mobile phone interactions. It investigates the importance of the mobile phone as both a communications andperformance tool to Western teenagers in their formation of identity. Sociological research into the use of mobile phones by young people often neglects the domesticrealm, from where a large proportion of text messages are sent. Combining theory with video data analysis of mobile phone interactions in the living room, the changing role performance of a teenager is traced as he attempts to negotiate his way to a party on a 'school night.' This video ethnography offers readings of how a mobile phone is used by ateenager to strike a 'stance-taking self' amid the contradictions of postmodern home life: the competing attentions of peer and 'family' group, the confusion of public/private spaces, conflicting household rules and moralities, and independence from and dependence on the 'family.'
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 58-75 (2005)
40. PETTY OFFERS OF THE POLITICAL FLEET: THE IMPACT OF PERSONAL MOBILE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ON COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICES OF ITALIAN POLITICIANS AND THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Enrico Menduni
This paper analyses the particular use of personal mobile communication by Italian politicians. Research was carried out in 2004 with semi-structured interviews to professional politicians, journalists and politicians' assistants. The paper intends to demonstrate that personal mobile communication technologies were introduced in a 'Darwinian' phase of political activity, at least in Italy, where every professional politician had to help themselves and survive in a milieu that almost suddenly had become very competitive, without significant support from party's organisation as it were in the past. Personal mobile communication, in this frame of thinking, appears as a 'help yourself' and timesaving technique, especially for second rank politicians who do not have access to large crews of assistants. Personal mobile communication technologies contributed to determine relevant transformations in the public sphere, especially regarding to: a) bargaining and making deals with one's peers and political partners; b) relationships with journalists and the media. At the same time, mobile communications fasten the oral dimension of politics, already pushed by audiovisual media, showing more 'politics' than 'policies'.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 88-101 (2005)
41. CYBERBULLYING AMONG YOUNGSTERS: PROFILES OF BULLIES AND VICTIMS
Heidi Vandebosch. University of Antwerp, Belgium
Katrien Van Cleemput. University of Antwerp, Belgium,
A survey among 2052 primary and secondary school children reveals that cyberbullying among youngsters is not a marginal problem. However, there are discrepancies between the prevalence figures based on direct measurement versus indirect measurement of cyberbullying. Youngsters who have bullied someone via the internet or mobile phone during the last three months are younger, and are more often victims and bystanders of bullying via the internet or mobile phone, and are more often the perpetrators of traditional bullying. Youngsters who have been bullied via the internet or mobile phone during the last three months are more dependent upon the internet, feel less popular, take more internet-related risks, are more often a bystander and perpetrator of internet and mobile phone bullying, and are less often a perpetrator and more often a victim of traditional bullying. The implications for future research into cyberbullying and for cyberbullyingprevention strategies are discussed.
Key Words: cyberbullying • prevalence • profile bullies • profile victims
New Media & Society, Vol. 11, No. 8, 1349-1371 (2009)
42. INFORMATION PRIVACY AND MOBILE PHONES
Gordon A. Gow
Renewed concerns about information privacy and mobile phones have surfaced with the early deployment of location-based services in North America, and specifically with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) led publicsafety initiative known as Wireless E9-1-1. Initial scholarly research in this area has focussed on the use and disclosure of geographic location information of mobile phone subscribers and on the terms and conditions by which this information can be made available for lawful access or commercial purposes. This paper refers to this body of research as the 'first domain' of information privacy research, and describes some of the key findings and contributions forpolicy research on customer proprietary information and customer consent. The paper then turns to introduce and describe an emerging 'second domain' ofinformation privacy concerned with the popular adoption of anonymous prepaid mobile phone services. The distinguishing characteristic of this second domain of research is its focus on debates about the legitimacy of regulatory requirements to collect and verify customer details at the point of purchase. Thispaper draws on findings from an empirical study undertaken in Canada to identify some initial parameters of this second domain of information privacy research with the intent of informing a wider debate about the entitlement to anonymity for customers who elect to use prepaid services over commercial networks.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 76-87 (2005)
43. CONSTRUCTING A SPECIFIC CULTURE: YOUNG PEOPLE'S USE OF THE MOBILE PHONE AS A SOCIAL PERFORMANCE
Letizia Caronia & André H. Caron
This paper presents the main results of an exploratory qualitative study on the functions and meanings of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in young people's everyday life. Specifically, this study concerns teenagers' cultural ways of interpreting themobile phone and its uses, as they become part of their social world. Through their accounts and narratives about 'young people's use of the mobile phone', teenagers construct their specific cultural model of this communication technology: it is seen as a radically social performance. Insofar as it is conceived as such, the mobile phone (MP) becomes a detonator of social thinking: it provokes reflective thinking on the ethics,etiquette and aesthetics of everyday action and social life. Reflecting upon the forms of use of the mobile phone, teenagers also explore the identity-making processes involved in the presentation of oneself on a public scene. In other words, they interpret and makethe uses of the MP work as a social grammar through which people are supposed to define themselves and those around them. In this sense, using an MP in a teenage-appropriate way is not a matter of technical competence; it requires larger communicativeskills that are cultural knowledge of when, where, why and, moreover, how to use this technology. Interpreted in the frames of teenagers' specific culture, the uses of the MP are also a tool for constructing the main dimensions of this culture and are used as alaboratory for the development of the skills needed to become competent members of their own community.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 10, No. 2, 28-61 (2004)

44. MOBILITY AMONG YOUNG URBAN DWELLERS
Mette Jensen. National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark
Young people of today travel and are more mobile than ever before. They have a considerable appetite for travelling and practically unlimited opportunities for mobility. Not only physical/bodily travelling, but also virtual travels via the Internet, or communicative travels via email, (mobile) phones and so on are separately and in combination a marked feature in everyday life among young people (see Tully,2002).To today's youth, mobility is a fact of life that they embrace with enthusiasm and, in a number of ways, mobility sets the agenda for and constantly transforms their social life.It influences their way of perceiving and understanding the world, which in turn makes them demand a still more and increasingly complex mobility.
Key Words: environment • identity • mobility • time • travel • urbanity • youth
Young, Vol. 14, No. 4, 343-361 (2006)
45. CHANGES IN THE SELF RESULTING FROM THE USE OF MOBILE PHONES
José M. García-Montes. University of Almería, Spain,
Domingo Caballero-Muñoz. University of Oviedo, Spain
Marino Pérez-Álvarez. University of Oviedo, Spain
The present work examines the potential consequences of the use of mobile telephones on people’s behaviour and identity. In doing so, we start from the premise that, even though this technology may have different effects in different cultural contexts, it promotes and foments certain patterns of behaviour and of understanding one’s own identity. It is suggested that this new identity goes hand in hand with a spatial-temporal recomposition of the context in which actions takeplace. On the opening up of an almost continuous virtual space, conflicts may arise between the different roles played by an individual which were previously differentiated as a function of space. Similarly, increased flexibility in arrangements leads to the appearance of a new concept of time, which we might call the ‘present extensive’. We also discuss the possible superstitions the use of this new technology may bring with it. As a result of these analyses, it is considered that the mobile phone not only emerges within a postmodern society, but also, along with other technological developments, feeds a postmodern mentality.
Key Words: identity • personality • postmodernism • space • technology • time
Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 28, No. 1, 67-82 (2006)
46. KEEPING CONNECTED: TRAVELLING WITH THE TELEPHONE
Peter B. White & Naomi Rosh White
This paper examines the uses of mobile and fixed telephone communicationsby travellers and the implications of that use for their experiences of travel. Based on interviews conducted with people travelling in New Zealand, we argue thattravellers give specific attention to the accessibility of phone services while planning their travel. Once travellers' journeys and communication with distantfriends and families had commenced, travellers made clear distinctions between the relative uses, benefits and drawbacks of using oral phone communications and 'texting' (short message service). Both forms of communication had similar impacts on travellers' sense of an ongoing integration into relationships from which they were temporarily physically distant. However, the two modes of communication differed with respect to what they were seen to offer. That is, oral phone communication was characterised by its 'emotionality', while texting in particular was seen to offer distinctive opportunities for spontaneous contact.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 102-112 (2005)
47. THE MOBILE PHONE: AN ARTEFACT OF POPULAR CULTURE AND A TOOL OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Janey Gordon
[C]ontrol over media production is diverging and new, sometimes less traditional, content providers are entering the media industries. However, research on media convergence has mostly addressed stationary settings. But with the growing phenomenon of mobile information technology, it is becoming increasingly important to consider mobility as a dimension of media convergence and mobile media as a new research field. (AndreasNilsson, Urban Nuldén and Daniel Olsson)
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 8, No. 3, 15-26 (2002)
48. CONTESTING THE NEW IRRATIONAL ACTOR MODEL: A CASE STUDY OF MOBILE PHONE MAST PROTEST
Alex Law. University of Abertay,
Wallace McNeish. University of Abertay,
Public opposition to the siting of telecommunications masts tends to focus on perceived health risks, yet scientific evidence suggests that mobile handsets may constitute more of a risk. This paradox is usually explained in terms of cognitive or communication deficit models that contain animplicit thesis of protest actor irrationality. Recent authors (e.g. Burgess, 2002, 2004; Taverne,2005) have, however, been more explicit in arguing that such protests are an irrational reaction to media constructed fears and state mismanagement of techno-infrastructure modernization.Together these approaches form what we call the `New Irrational Actor Model'. Drawing on insights from social movements theor y and data from a 12-month case study of the campaign againstTerrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) telecommunications masts in nor th-east Fife, we argue that contrar y to the `New Irrational Actor Model', the anti-mast protesters utilize multi-form modes of substantive and instrumental rational action.
Key Words: media • protest • rationality • risk • technology
Sociology, Vol. 41, No. 3, 439-456 (2007)
49. CONCEPTUALIZING PERSONAL MEDIA
Marika Lüders. SINTEF IKT, Fobkningsveien 1, 0373 Oslo, Norway,
The digitalization and personal use of media technologies have destabilized the traditional dichotomization between mass communication and interpersonal communication, and therefore between mass media and personal media (e.g. mobile phones, email, instant messenger, blogs and photo-sharing services). As private individuals use media technologies to create and share personal expressions through digital networks, previous characteristics of mass media as providers of generally accessible information are no longer accurate. This article may be situated within a medium-theoretical tradition, as it elucidates technical and social dimensions of personal media and revises the distinction between mass media and personal media. A two-dimensional model suggests locating personal media and mass media according to an interactional axis and an institutional/professional axis: personal media are de-institutionalized/de-professionalized and facilitate mediated interaction. The implementation of digital media technologies has important consequences for social networks and fits well within a theoretical discussion of the post-traditional self.
Key Words: CMC • communication theory • convergence • medium-theory • multimodality • personal media • social technologies
New Media & Society, Vol. 10, No. 5, 683-702 (2008)
50. MONITORED MOBILITY IN THE ERA OF MASS CUSTOMIZATION
Mark Andrejevic. Fairfield University
Just as Web browsers use information about surfing habits to customize content and advertising, so the development of mobile commerce (m-commerce) promises to capitalize on the real-time monitoring of the time-space paths followed by consumers.Thanks to the development of wireless, networked devices,

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