Always On: Mobile Culture and Its Temporal Consequences

Abstract

is a visual artist, senior lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of East London, UK and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has published on lifestyle television and celebrity culture and exhibited work exploring the metropolitan experience and everyday photographic practices. More recently her work has utilised mobile phone technology to create three short films. Who are Ya? examined Arsenal football fandom, belonging, masculinity and mobile phone culture. May Days was an autobiographical 'mobile-doc' and focused on how the phone-camera was used to create a 'short-term memory' for her mother who suffered from Alzheimer's. The work was featured in 'Pocket Cinema' BBC Radio 4, UK and 'Pick of the Week', BBC Radio 4, UK. Office no. 47 returned to themes of belonging and how the working environment gets transformed into personal spaces through the use of images and artefacts. She was one of the first academics in the UK to create a course for undergraduates that explored the specifics of using mobile phone technology for creative practice and currently leads the module Mobile Media, Exhibition and Promotion at UEL.

Enhancing the quality of service of mobile video technology by increasing multimodal synergy

“…Mobile technology such as e-readers, laptops, smartphones, smartwatches and other wearables is increasingly commonplace (Johnson and Grainge 2015;Škařupová, Ólafsson, and Blinka 2016;Powell 2017;Shoukry and Gobel 2017;. Consequently, applications such as mobile video telephony, mobile television, mobile Internet, navigation and mobile games are growing in use (Bernhaupt and Pirker 2014;Hess, Knoche, and Wulf 2014;Lim et al 2015;Shaheen, Cohen, and Martin 2017).…”

“…Second, mobile television is rapidly becoming the next high-growth consumer technology (Jung, Perez-Mira, and Wiley-Patton 2009;Hess, Knoche, and Wulf 2014). Its multimodality enables a user to be immersed whilst being on the way and privatising the user from its surroundings (Powell 2017;Rimell, Mansfield, and Hands 2007). It is this immersion which is regarded as a key benefit of the technology (Jung, Perez-Mira, and Wiley-Patton 2009).…”

Mobile Screen Size Limits Multimodal Synergy

“…Mobile technology such as e-readers, laptops, smartphones, smartwatches and other wearables are rapidly gaining momentum [12,13,20,23,29]. Applications such as mobile video telephony, mobile television, mobile Internet, navigation and mobile games are growing in use [4,11,22].…”