Cell Phone Culture

Goggin, Gerard

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“…Hence, the parameters of our thesis are bound by the delimitation that mobile communication adds a unique new flavor to the social landscape, rather than creates an entirely new one. This position shares similarities with Goggin's (2006, 2) that the cell phone ‘has become a central cultural technology in its own right’. This raises questions about what is so distinctive about mobile telephony.…”

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“…However, this is far from an exhaustive list of areas of social change that come out of mobile communication and the rise of personal communication society. One additional example is peer‐to‐peer journalism, in which regular citizens become eye witness journalists by capturing and broadcasting news events using their mobile devices (Goggin 2006; Gye 2007). This form of journalism was experimented with in 2000 (Rheingold 2002), and today it is common for local and national news broadcasts to show images captured and distributed from mobile camera phones.…”

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Social Implications of Mobile Telephony: The Rise of Personal Communication Society

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The media landscape has changed dramatically in recent decades, from one predominated by traditional mass communication formats to today's more personalized network environment. Mobile communication plays a central role in this transition, with adoption rates that surpass even those of the Internet. This essay argues that the widespread diffusion and use of mobile telephony is iconic of a shift toward a new ‘personal communication society’, evidenced by several key areas of social change, including symbolic meaning of the technology, new forms of coordination and social networking, personalization of public spaces, and the mobile youth culture. The conclusion speculates on future trends in the sociotechnological climate.

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“…Other obvious though minor transformations are in forms of artistic expression, creating or mutating genres for art, creating new artists and new markets for their work, from blogs and fl ash mobs to ringtones and downloads, and in our political life as the old sedentary institutions and organisations lose touch with the values and concerns of people growing up in a diff erent world; and to crime and wrongdoing initially from BlackBerry-enabled rioting, happy-slapping, blue-jacking and cyber-sex, and then onto trolling and identity-theft. We should however be alert for the numerous moral panics around mobiles (Goggin, 2012).…”

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Learning with Mobiles in the Digital Age

Traxler¹

2018

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Personal mobile devices are central to the current digital age, and will soon be pervasive and ubiquitous, and unremarkable in most of the world’s societies and cultures. They are central to the educational futures for the digital age, to both in theory and practice. They are, however, not straightforward. Whilst the relationships of these technologies to formal education and its professions and institutions, conceptualised as ‘mobile learning’, seemed straightforward, it has also become increasingly marginal and irrelevant whilst the relationship between mobile devices and society outside formal education is increasingly problematising the nature, role and purpose of both education and learning. This article explores this tension; it characterises and conceptualises it in terms of competing paradigms.

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“…258–260). Lievrouw’s seven-part model builds on related, earlier approaches, such as the ‘circuits of culture’ model (du Gay, Hall, Janes, Mackay, & Negus, 1997; Goggin, 2006), to provide a productive means of making sense of the manifold factors driving and shaping the development, take-up and use of complicated socio-technical artefacts and systems. Rather than examine Lievrouw’s specific seven-part categorisation of ‘moments of technology development’ (p. 258) in detail here, however, or apply it to the letter in our analysis, which would be difficult to achieve in the space available, our concern is with the broader ‘determination/contingency’ tension that she identifies.…”

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Social shaping of mobile geomedia services: An analysis of Yelp and Foursquare

Frith

Wilken

2019

Communication and the Public

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In their book, Location-Based Social Media: Space, Time and Identity, Leighton Evans and Michael Saker remark on the apparent ‘death’ of location-based social networks, suggesting that location-based social networks can now be understood as ‘a form of “zombie-media” that animates and haunts other media platforms’. In this article, we use this perspective as a point of departure for a social shaping of technology-informed analysis of two key geomedia platforms: Yelp and Foursquare. With Yelp approaching its 15th year of service and Foursquare approaching its 10th anniversary, this article provides a timely opportunity to (re-)examine the significance of Yelp and Foursquare and the many reconfigurations both firms have made to their services since their launch. These include, most recently, Yelp’s integration of artificial intelligence/machine learning techniques to parse, sift and order users’ posts and Foursquare’s development of its Pilgrim SDK (software design kit) to power the location services of other platforms, like Tinder and Snap. A social shaping-inflected approach is productive in this context in that it stresses how many of these developments and strategic reorientations are not just in response to shareholder and investor pressures, they are also fundamentally shaped by and made in response to the fluctuating demands of end-users within a complicated, competitive and continuously evolving geomedia ecosystem. Consequently, we draw from the work of Leah A Lievrouw to examine how dual tensions of contingency/determination shape how these applications are designed and used, and how both design and use continue to evolve in response to various external pressures.

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Cell Phone Culture

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Social Implications of Mobile Telephony: The Rise of Personal Communication Society

Social Implications of Mobile Telephony: The Rise of Personal Communication Society

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