Mediatized Connectivity: Historical Traits of Telephony and Theoretical Considerations about a New Dispositive of Communication

Steinmaurer, Thomas

doi:10.1057/9781137300355_6

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“…As explained in more detail by Kaufmann and Peil (2020), it is essential to apply MIMIs only with research subjects who are known to be regular and habitual users of mobile messaging and who consider their smartphone as a constant "companion" (Thulin et al, 2020, p. 170). In this respect, the applicability of the method benefits from the awareness that many people today live in a state of permanent "mediatized connectivity" (Steinmaurer, 2014), being "permanently online, permanently connected" (Vorderer et al, 2018). Mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram or WeChat are among the most widely used applications for they represent an easy-to-use, cheap and flexible tool for communicating and organizing everyday life (Ling & Lai, 2016).…”

Section: Selecting Participants and Building Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

Producing In Situ Data From a Distance With Mobile Instant Messaging Interviews (MIMIs): Examples From the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kaufmann

Peil

Bork-Hüffer

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Researching people in their chaotic and complex everyday lives is challenging for researchers at any time but especially during the application of social distancing measures. In this article, we make the case for the methodical potential of mobile messengers such as WhatsApp for qualitative mobile in situ research. We exemplify the productive use of the Mobile Instant Messaging Interview (MIMI), a research method developed by Kaufmann and Peil in 2020, to study participants’ everyday life in real-time. Based on two case studies from geography and communication studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, we expound our experiences in the practical application of the MIMI approach and give recommendations. We conclude that MIMIs are a low-cost, easily feasible and short-term implemented approach for research interests across disciplines and possessing great potential for exceptional circumstances like the COVID-19 pandemic. They allow direct access to the practices and experiences of people in situ and in real-time that would otherwise stay hidden and inaccessible to social sciences. The method is suitable for research projects of any size, and can be applied as part of multi- and mixed methods designs and as well for longitudinal designs. Nonetheless, the MIMIs have to be well prepared, demand smart ways of nudging participants into elaborating their responses and require careful coordination between larger teams of researchers.

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Section: Selecting Participants and Building Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

Producing In Situ Data From a Distance With Mobile Instant Messaging Interviews (MIMIs): Examples From the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kaufmann

Peil

Bork-Hüffer

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…For example, the seeming "newness" of digital media (Hepp & Krotz, 2014, p. 11) vanishes when examined from a historical perspective (see e.g. THE MEDIATIZATION OF THE AIR 6 Steinmaurer, 2014). In fact, analyses of the history of digital media have shown that a clear differentiation of old and new, analogue and digital media becomes obsolete (Balbi, 2015;Balbi & Magaudda, 2018;Natale, 2016b;Peters, 2009;Sterne, 2009).…”

Section: The Necessity Of Historicizing Mediatization Researchmentioning

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The Mediatization of the Air: Wireless Telegraphy and the Origins of a Transnational Space of Communication, 1900-1910s

Rikitianskaia

Balbi

Lobinger

2018

Journal of Communication

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Airspace today is densely penetrated by Wi-Fi networks, GPS services, broadcasting and mobile phone signals. This process, what we call the "mediatization of the air", is not so new, as it began in the first two decades of the 20 th century with the advent of wireless telegraphy. Based on archival research, this paper shows that wireless telegraphy mediatized the air and made it an international matter of common interest for formerly disconnected realms. The mediatized air transformed meteorology, timekeeping, mobility, and transportation and challenged governance over aerial borders. Overall, this study on historical mediatization research contributes to telling a different story about mediatization by including an invisible and understudied phenomenon that today represents a basic and taken-for-granted infrastructure for global communication.

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“…Within this environment, there has arisen a new dominant 'dispositive' of communication, which Steinmaurer (2014Steinmaurer ( , 2016 calls 'mediatized connectivity'. Steinmaurer (2014) argues from a mediatization-theory point of view to describe the increasing pervasion of society by media technologies, from printing to new and ubiquitous forms of networked connectivity, and to analyse certain aspects of power structures.…”

Section: Manifestation 2: Networked Powermentioning

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Geomedia: Manifestations of Power as Mediatized Communication Practices – A Foucauldian Approach

Atteneder¹

2018

giforum

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The pervasive integration of geomedia in urban societies changes the perception and appropriation of space by influencing everyday modes of connectivity while also changing manifestations of power. Geomedia and the resulting datasets thus enable new types of platform capitalism and surveillance, but also possible empowerment. At the current level of 'permanent spatial connectivity', power becomes relational and liquid, and manifests within structures ((machine learning) algorithms and codes) rather than people. (Geo)mediatization theory addresses underlying power relations critically; in this paper, it is complemented by Foucault's theories of power. His conception of power as 'fluid', diffused and disembodied is adopted as a fruitful concept in the analysis of geomedia and spatial practices within digital networks.

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Mediatized Connectivity: Historical Traits of Telephony and Theoretical Considerations about a New Dispositive of Communication

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

Producing In Situ Data From a Distance With Mobile Instant Messaging Interviews (MIMIs): Examples From the COVID-19 Pandemic

Producing In Situ Data From a Distance With Mobile Instant Messaging Interviews (MIMIs): Examples From the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Mediatization of the Air: Wireless Telegraphy and the Origins of a Transnational Space of Communication, 1900-1910s

Geomedia: Manifestations of Power as Mediatized Communication Practices – A Foucauldian Approach

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