Perceptions of Mobile Phone Use in Public: The Roles of Individualism, Collectivism, and Focus of the Setting

Campbell, Scott W.

doi:10.1080/08934210802301506

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“…SMS was perceived to potentially have a negative impact on participants' credibility and ability to establish initial connections. This is consistent with findings from other studies where students expressed concerns with mobile devices compromising professional behaviour or blurring boundaries between technology used for learning and technology used for social purposes (Campbell, 2008;Tabuenca et al, 2014;Wallace, Clark & White, 2012).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Using SMS to support reflection in health professional students on placement in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health context

Barlott

Nelson

Brown

et al. 2020

Australian Journal of Clinical Education

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Reflective practice is a crucial aspect of being a health professional and needs to be developed throughout one’s career, starting as a student. However, it can be difficult for clinical educators to facilitate student engagement in reflection whilst on placement across a variety locations. This action research study aimed to develop and explore the use of SMS as a tool to facilitate reflective practice for health professional students on clinical placement in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander context. Following three action research phases, this paper focuses on the most recent (fourth) research phase. In this phase, ten health professional students were sent a series of three reflective SMS messages per week structured around a commonly used framework within this health context, the Making Connections Framework. A focus group was utilized to explore the collective experiences of five students and evaluated using thematic analysis. Four key themes emerged: 1) transition of SMS from a personal to a professional technology, 2) benefits and limitations of the professional use of SMS, 3) SMS for reflective dialogue, and 4) SMS and reflection ‘on’ and ‘in’ practice. SMS was found to be a viable tool for prompting reflection for students on placement in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander setting when embedded within a broader organisation-wide cultural integrity framework and structure.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Using SMS to support reflection in health professional students on placement in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health context

Barlott

Nelson

Brown

et al. 2020

Australian Journal of Clinical Education

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“…Examples of how people negotiate the social norms of new media more germane to this study can be seen in mobile phone use. As Campbell () has shown, how acceptable it is to engage in mobile phone conversations in public depends on cultural factors, with some places even going so far as to ban mobile voice calls on public transportation (Rheingold, ). In addition, the SMS system shows the importance of emerging social norms and the social shaping of technology.…”

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confidence: 99%

Communicating Through Location: The Understood Meaning of the Foursquare Check-In

Frith

2014

J Comput-Mediat Comm

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Location-based social networks (LBSNs) are mobile applications that allow people to share their physical location with friends through their mobile device. The sharing of location is a relatively new form of computer-mediated communication, and there is a lack of existing research examining the coor- (2011) show, newer mobile applications are often built around the importance of physical location. These applications, commonly referred to as location-based services, use the location-aware capabilities of newer mobile phones to provide people with information about their surroundings. The information these applications provide includes locations of historical sites, restaurant reviews, and geotagged narratives about specific locations. Increasingly, individuals also use mobile applications to share their location with friends. Mobile applications that allow for social location sharing are called location-based social networks (LBSNs), and they are a growing subset of location-based services.With the growth of location-aware mobile applications, people are increasingly able to share their location in multiple ways, whether through check-ins on popular LBSNs like Foursquare, geotagged tweets, or geotagged photos on Flickr. To further our understanding of the social sharing of location information, this study provides a theoretically and qualitatively grounded examination of the mobile communication practices of Foursquare users. The data reported in this study is drawn from 36 interviews of frequent Foursquare users and focuses on two independent yet interrelated areas: the role physical location plays in the coordination practices of Foursquare users and the different ways in which * Accepted by previous editor Maria Bakardjieva Foursquare users interpret the meaning of the application. Now that over 50% of adults in the United States own location-aware smartphones (Smith, 2013), it is important for researchers to develop frameworks for understanding how the addition of physical location to mobile communication may impact social practices. This study helps develop a framework that will be valuable for future social scientific approaches to location-based services in two significant ways. First, I show that to understand how people use LBSNs, we must understand the physical spaces in which they use the applications. Unlike with text messaging or voice calls, understanding the location of users is necessary for analyzing why they share their location and whether they use their location to coordinate with others. Secondly, this article introduces a heuristic framework for understanding the different ways people use applications like Foursquare. The data reported here reveals four primary types of Foursquare users, and this taxonomy of users can be useful for future research seeking to develop and test hypotheses of usage patterns. In addition, this article shows how these different uses complicate Foursquare's utility as a tool for mobile coordination because people cannot be sure why others are sharing their location...

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“…He argued that this trend translates into individualists' sense of injustice when they witness other people using cell phones in public places. In other words, the individualists viewed improper cell phone use in public space to be an injustice because of the tendency that "collectivists in con ict situations are primarily concerned with maintaining their relationships with others, whereas individualists are primarily concerned with achieving justice" 28 . Likewise, the respondents who have a strong HI tendency in this study may also think that not wearing mask is an injustice, for it harms other people.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mask Wearing Behavior and COVID-19: Synthetic Effects of Individualism and Collectivism in Korea

Chung

Kim

2021

Preprint

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The behavior of the general public has largely been critical to the effective COVID-19 response. Republic of Korea has shown a better response performance than many other countries around the world. Based on the theories of individualism-collectivism, this study analyzes how the Korean culture influences the mask-wearing behavior of people in Korea. Two online surveys were conducted after the first wave and in the middle of third wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Korea. The results of regression analysis demonstrate that, when demographic variables are controlled, concerns around infecting others and respondents’ horizontal individualistic tendency have significant positive effects on mask wearing behavior. Meanwhile, horizontal collectivism also positively affects the respondents’ mask-wearing behavior as expected in collectivistic culture of Korean people. We conclude that the general collectivism of Korean people is mutually synergetic with the horizontal individualism in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea.

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Perceptions of Mobile Phone Use in Public: The Roles of Individualism, Collectivism, and Focus of the Setting

Cited by 28 publications

References 20 publications

Using SMS to support reflection in health professional students on placement in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health context

Using SMS to support reflection in health professional students on placement in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health context

Communicating Through Location: The Understood Meaning of the Foursquare Check-In

Mask Wearing Behavior and COVID-19: Synthetic Effects of Individualism and Collectivism in Korea

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