The Mobile Phone: An Identity on the Move

Fortunati, Leopoldina

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“…To understand these though requires some careful thought, however. For example, Fortunanti [4] suggests that mobile devices are treated in an emotionally distinct way because they are, as she puts it, charismatic. This results in users spending more on their mobiles than they would on any other technology, and being covetous of the devices themselves, getting highly distressed when they are lost, and making sure that they are always near them, like a child or a partner.…”

Section: Explorations In the Emotional Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…This is a world wide phenomenon, though the extent to which it occurs varies between different countries. This particular aspect of mobile devies is perhaps the one that's been given the most attention, with research reporting the effects of this in Finland [18], France [8], Italy [4,5], the Far East [17] and elsewhere.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is argued that this is a function of the social connectivity that mobile phones afford and thus reflects a relationship with the content more so than the device itself [4,16,19,20].…”

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People versus Information: The Evolution of Mobile Technology

Harper

2003

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This reports research on users' attitudes towards and use of GSM devices and discusses the implications these have for the future evolution of hand-held devices. It argues that current usage patterns suggest that there is unlikely to be a widespread convergence of information accessing devices and person to person communication devices. It also argues that the latter devices and their associated applications could provide much richer opportunities for communication behaviours than is currently available, and that therefore design efforts within the mobile HCI community should focus on this rather than on information use applications. Introduction Mobile HCIIf one looks back at the history of mobile HCI, one can see that certain assumptions have underscored the research undertaken within its auspices. Expressed very simply, it has been the case that the research questions have to do with information usage. This in turn has split into two main research topics: access to information when remote and away from an office, and, on the other hand, interaction with information on the hand held devices themselves. The one has to do with the constraints of interaction over distance [e.g. 24], the other with constraints of interaction on small scale devices [e.g., 14,23]. More recently, this basic dichotomy has been supplemented with a concern for how interaction with people (or other users if you will) may be combined with information access. This has taken many forms, ranging from location-based services applications through to how different user groups bring themselves together with the use of distinct types of information, such as provided by games and sports [2,12]. Throughout the history of mobile HCI there have of course been various tangential research activities that don't fit so easily within these basic assumptions and subsequent strands of research activity. My own early work on location-based services, for example, was one such activity [9]. Here we had neither a clear idea of what information may be interacted with nor how that might augment person to person communications. There are many other curios within the research literature. But these tangents notwithstanding, mobile HCI has remained and is essentially about human-information

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Section: Explorations In the Emotional Dimensionmentioning

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People versus Information: The Evolution of Mobile Technology

Harper

2003

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…The domesticated technoscape unfolds as a hybrid of global and local spaces in which the "local" use of technologies functions as a process of participation in and resistance to globalization (Pertierra, 2005;Yoon, 2006). All of these studies have considered the mobile phone as an object that gives meaning on behalf of and for its user, as a presentation of one's self, identity and/or social face (Katz, 2003;Lobet-Maris, 2003;Ling & Yttri, 1999;Fortunati, 2001;Donner 2005).…”

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Attachment to Mobile Phones across Social Contexts

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Erdogmus

2015

Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior

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This article presents a critical literature review of the major works on mobile phone culture, which examine the whys and wherefores of this technology's popularity in different socio-economic and cultural landscapes. Thus, it focuses particularly on how these multiplicities and varieties have been discussed, analyzed and researched in the existing mobile phone literature. There are different lines of research which can be categorized as following: the major works (mostly empirical studies whose findings are based on fieldwork) that demonstrate the mobile phone's use and instrumental value for people who are physically mobile and need instantaneous and spontaneous connections with others; the works that focus on the social promise of the mobile phone such as providing a means of social acceptance, through implying social status and particular lifestyles to polish one's face and gain recognition in social relations; and finally the studies that emphasize the sensing, affecting and affected, and fantasies of the body and the collective in contemplating the bond between body and mobile phone.

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“…However, these studies leave unexamined the content of conversations and the emotional responses of women to remote mothering and to balancing multiple work and social tasks. As feminist scholars have argued, the spatial separation and dichotomization of privatepublic, home-work, and studying-parenting is problematic; an examination of how these blur and women's emotional responses thereto allows us to obtain a greater understanding of women's lives (Contarello, Fortunati, & Sarrica, 2007;Fortunati, 1998Fortunati, , 2001Lee, 2005;Ling, 2001aLing, , 2001bMassey, 1999;Moss, 2006). This paper begins with an examination of the literature on voice, emotions, and the telephone.…”

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Human Technology

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Human Technology is an interdisciplinary, scholarly journal that presents innovative, peer-reviewed articles exploring the issues and challenges surrounding human-technology interaction and the human role in all areas of our ICT-infused societies.Human Technology is published by the Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä and distributed without a charge online. TECHNOLOGIES TO SUPPORT LEARNING, WELL-BEING, AND COMMUNICATIONThe Finnish information society, including its school system, is facing many challenges at the moment. Decision makers, such as representatives of the Ministry of Education and Culture, have raised lively discussion on the basis of the recent PISA results. 1 The trend among Finnish students' performance in the PISA study during the last decade is descendant. Altogether, the recent studies indicate particular worries related to both negative attitudes and lack of motivation towards learning among Finnish students, as these factors seem to be coupled with the performance and learning outcomes (Hautamäki, Kupiainen, Marjanen, Vainikainen, & Hotulainen, 2013; Kupari et al., 2013).One of the suggestions for renewing our school practices is to develop innovative pedagogical and knowledge practices that also utilize technologies. Although technologies have been developed for educational purposes already for almost two decades, many practical questions remain outstanding. Certainly the issues of the availability (accessibility and cost) and demand for flexibility (time, place, and pace) in learning remain challenges for employing, for example, distance learning in most educational systems. Yet these are not the actual bottlenecks for the more widespread and productive use of technologies in teaching or learning. Rather, the challenge frequently relates to educators' hesitant attitudes toward their abilities in applying new pedagogical approaches and utilizing technologies to support them. Moreover, because traditional models of learning have not inspired researchers and teachers to develop innovative pedagogical practices, research and development work within the field has shifted toward a focus on creating many-sided pedagogical practices, specifically through utilizing technologies that can support students in their efforts for deeper learning and richer interaction. Research in the area of learning technologies has indicated both possibilities and challenges related to pedagogically meaningful use of technologies for learning.The development, educational professionals now call for research-based, smart solutions to support learning and performance within formal and informal educational, work-related, and everyday contexts. The "learn anytime, anywhere" approach, while offering much potential for innovative teaching and learning, is not without challenges. Certainly, ubiquitous computing can provide opportunities for embedding learning into everyday activities (Weiser, 1991). However, research and development work should focus on meaningful pedagogical use of mobile devices instead of merely users...

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The Mobile Phone: An Identity on the Move

Cited by 74 publications

References 12 publications

People versus Information: The Evolution of Mobile Technology

People versus Information: The Evolution of Mobile Technology

Attachment to Mobile Phones across Social Contexts

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