Mobile Phones, Identity and Discursive Intimacy

Pertierra, Raul

doi:10.17011/ht/urn.2005124

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“…The implications for education are the transience, fragmentation and complication of the identities and communities being served, potentially changing the ideas of out-reach and recruitment as people shift the places and spaces that they inhabit (Childs 2010). A different facet is the extent to which mobiles are embodied or prosthetic, part of us, inseparable, an umbilical cord to much that we now value, the last thing at night, the first thing in the morning; organisations expecting to separate people from their mobiles threaten these attachments (Pertierra 2005;Rettie 2005;Vincent 2006), though they also represent yet another technology of surveillance (Kietzmann and Angell 2010).…”

Section: Research In Learning Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Inclusion in an age of mobility

Traxler

2016

Research in Learning Technology

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Learning with mobiles in UK universities is not new and is not novel. It is, in fact, at least 10 years old, well-documented and comparable to activity in universities elsewhere in Western Europe, America and Asia Pacific. Continued and dramatic changes in the ownership, access and expectations of mobiles amongst university students and equally across UK society have suddenly propelled learning with mobiles to centre-stage as a feasible proposition but, it is now argued, only if students can bring-your-own-device. This has already catalysed discussion about authority, agency and control within university settings but the equally significant and profound implications for the inclusion agenda have not been articulated. This paper begins that process. A theoretical framework for social inclusion in this context is considered, identified and discussed. The paper reviews the progress and problems of the substantial and unique programme of mobile learning across UK higher education since 2000 in relation to its stance on inclusion, where this is apparent. These are all well-documented in academic and official sources; the paper does however also draw on the author's involvement in many of the events and initiatives. The paper raises however significant questions about this programme's meaning and direction in a world where now there is more, better, cheaper, faster, newer but different digital technology in the hands of students, potential students and everyone else than there is routinely in the educational institutions themselves. This digital technology, mobile technology, now allows learners to create, own, transform, discuss, discard, share, store and broadcast ideas, opinions, images and information, and to create and transform identities and communities. The paper argues that this epistemological revolution may mean that universities and colleges are no longer credible and authoritative gatekeepers to knowledge and its technologies and so the meaning and relevance of inclusion are much less clear. The paper proposes a new stance on inclusion.

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Section: Research In Learning Technologymentioning

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Inclusion in an age of mobility

Traxler

2016

Research in Learning Technology

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“…Also pricing structures and network connectivity characteristics may be influential. Direct or synchronous contacts, such as phone calls, often require larger investments of money, time, and effort than indirect or asynchronous communication services (Licoppe and Smoreda 2005;Rivière and Licoppe 2004;Pertierra 2005;Larsen et al 2006). Such possible pricing differences may thus also influence people's communication decisions while travelling.…”

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Communicating something confidential while travelling by train: the use of a telephone conversation versus silent modes

2009

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Wireless ICTs are often used in public transport. Using survey data collected amongst 98 train travellers this article aims to gain insight into important factors that affect train travellers' intentions to communicate with distant others while travelling. More specifically, the focus is on the decision-making process that leads to the intention to choose for a confidential conversation either via 'audible' mobile phone or via 'silent' SMS/e-mail. An approach that is related to the Extended Model of Goal-directed Behaviour (EMGB) is applied. Structural equation modelling results indicate that in particular past SMS behaviour, the desire to communicate (goal desire), the perceived efficacy and controllability influence the intention to conduct a confidential phone conversation in the train. The influence of the social environment (e.g. eavesdropping) seems to be less important. Several EMGB constructs are strongly influenced by age. It seems that older respondents have more negative attitudes towards telephoning while travelling by train, and find it more difficult to call other people in such a situation. Finally, they have a lower intention than younger respondents to conduct a confidential conversation over the phone while travelling.

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“…This applies both to the device itself and its use. Cell phones and the linking of phones and user identities -along the lines of Foucault's technologies of the self, Haraway's cyborg or McLuhan's corporeal media as a prosthetic extension-have sparked an unprecedented revival of the history of technology (Lasén, 2006(Lasén, , 2009Fidalgo et al, 2013;Castells et al, 2006, Aguado, Feijoo & Martínez, 2013Pertierra, 2005;Fortunati, 2003Fortunati, , 2005Stald, 2009). Does the Shuar use of cell phones point to a shared nomad identity?…”

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“…As we have indicated, the practice of sharing involves identitary counter-effects. Pertierra (2005) argues that sharing affects identity construction; making appropriation neither complete nor natural. "Without a cell phone, I feel like nobody, like I have disappeared.…”

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Nomadism and intermittent ubiquity in ‘off the grid’ Shuar people

Agra

2015

Communication & Society

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Media ecology suggests that the anyone, anywhere, anytime slogan of the ubiquitous society characterizes our times. A priori, mobile technology in the "digital ecosystem" fits this circumstance. However, if we delocalize to a remote area, this initial assumption changes. Results of a case study analyzing the use and appropriation of mobile phones in the indigenous Amazon Shuar communities show a different reality that could be labeled 'intermittent ubiquity'. How does the delocalization facilitated by mobile telephones affect a remote area? How do Ecuadorian Shuars appropriate digital mobile technology? How does technological novelty become apparent in a context that is currently 'off the grid'? These questions drive our interest in examining the three premises of the ubiquitous society slogan in this specific context.

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Mobile Phones, Identity and Discursive Intimacy

Cited by 95 publications

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Inclusion in an age of mobility

Inclusion in an age of mobility

Communicating something confidential while travelling by train: the use of a telephone conversation versus silent modes

Nomadism and intermittent ubiquity in ‘off the grid’ Shuar people

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