NAOMI S. BARON
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195313055
- eISBN:
- 9780199871094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195313055.003.0007
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter discusses mobile phones, also known as cell phones to highlight their portability, and their impact on language and social interaction. Mobile phones are used either to make voice calls ...
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This chapter discusses mobile phones, also known as cell phones to highlight their portability, and their impact on language and social interaction. Mobile phones are used either to make voice calls or for text messaging, for emergency purposes or filling dead time while waiting for a bus. This chapter looks at how usage patterns differ across age or gender. Another issue concerns social dynamics: How are young people emancipated from direct adult supervision by having access to personal communication devices? Does a mobile phone make a social statement about the user through its faceplate, decorative strap, ring tones, or where it is placed when he or she sits down to lunch with friends? Under what circumstances is it appropriate to answer a ringing phone in public or place a call while riding on a commuter train? This chapter also examines the influence of culture on the use of mobile phones, focusing on Japan and the United States. Text messaging is also compared with instant messaging.Less
This chapter discusses mobile phones, also known as cell phones to highlight their portability, and their impact on language and social interaction. Mobile phones are used either to make voice calls or for text messaging, for emergency purposes or filling dead time while waiting for a bus. This chapter looks at how usage patterns differ across age or gender. Another issue concerns social dynamics: How are young people emancipated from direct adult supervision by having access to personal communication devices? Does a mobile phone make a social statement about the user through its faceplate, decorative strap, ring tones, or where it is placed when he or she sits down to lunch with friends? Under what circumstances is it appropriate to answer a ringing phone in public or place a call while riding on a commuter train? This chapter also examines the influence of culture on the use of mobile phones, focusing on Japan and the United States. Text messaging is also compared with instant messaging.
Eric Harwit
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199233748
- eISBN:
- 9780191715556
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233748.003.0007
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
This chapter first puts the case of China's ‘digital divide’ in a comparative development context, and considers past studies of the importance of telecommunications spread to areas of low ...
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This chapter first puts the case of China's ‘digital divide’ in a comparative development context, and considers past studies of the importance of telecommunications spread to areas of low penetration. It then turns its attention to China, and examines the ways urban and rural communications systems have expanded over the past several decades. The chapter indicates that government leaders and institutions have goals for developing the industry that may not necessarily take into account the broader needs of all sectors of society. They have generally put revenue collection ahead of equitable access. Education officials, however, have made some progress in spreading availability of data networks. The chapter then considers newer technologies of data communication, and assesses problems related to equitable access to China's Internet. It concludes that government policies have brought somewhat mixed results, but that new technologies may help to bridge the digital divide.Less
This chapter first puts the case of China's ‘digital divide’ in a comparative development context, and considers past studies of the importance of telecommunications spread to areas of low penetration. It then turns its attention to China, and examines the ways urban and rural communications systems have expanded over the past several decades. The chapter indicates that government leaders and institutions have goals for developing the industry that may not necessarily take into account the broader needs of all sectors of society. They have generally put revenue collection ahead of equitable access. Education officials, however, have made some progress in spreading availability of data networks. The chapter then considers newer technologies of data communication, and assesses problems related to equitable access to China's Internet. It concludes that government policies have brought somewhat mixed results, but that new technologies may help to bridge the digital divide.
Maurizio Ferraris
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823256150
- eISBN:
- 9780823261321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823256150.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter focuses on the most evident transformations of presence induced by mobile phones. It highlights the distinction between being on the phone and being on a mobile phone. Beginning with the ...
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This chapter focuses on the most evident transformations of presence induced by mobile phones. It highlights the distinction between being on the phone and being on a mobile phone. Beginning with the question “Where are you?” it examines the invisible ontology associated with the mobile phone. It illustrates how mobile phones create not only independence but also new forms of dependence for both mother and child. It also explores the concept of mobile ontology—in its two meanings of “mobile ontology” and “ontology of the mobile phone.” The chapter argues that “being-on-the-mobile-phone” is a matter of ubiquity and individuality. Finally, it draws some philosophical conclusions based on four major points: objects, subjects, knowledge, and possibilities.Less
This chapter focuses on the most evident transformations of presence induced by mobile phones. It highlights the distinction between being on the phone and being on a mobile phone. Beginning with the question “Where are you?” it examines the invisible ontology associated with the mobile phone. It illustrates how mobile phones create not only independence but also new forms of dependence for both mother and child. It also explores the concept of mobile ontology—in its two meanings of “mobile ontology” and “ontology of the mobile phone.” The chapter argues that “being-on-the-mobile-phone” is a matter of ubiquity and individuality. Finally, it draws some philosophical conclusions based on four major points: objects, subjects, knowledge, and possibilities.
Cara Wallis
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814795262
- eISBN:
- 9780814784815
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814795262.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This introductory chapter briefly discusses mobility—one physical and one virtual—in the lives of young rural-to-urban migrant women in China. It provides an ethnographic exploration of the cultural, ...
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This introductory chapter briefly discusses mobility—one physical and one virtual—in the lives of young rural-to-urban migrant women in China. It provides an ethnographic exploration of the cultural, social, aesthetic, and economic dimensions of mobile phone use by female migrants working in Beijing. Although mobile in the sense of migration from their home villages, their long work hours, rare time off, and confined social world caused them to be relatively immobile in the city. This immobility however was overcome in certain ways by their use of mobile phones for navigating social networks, enjoying forms of entertainment, participating in China's burgeoning consumer culture, and constructing a “modern” self. Drawing on critical/cultural and feminist theories of subjectivity, power, and technology, the chapter theorizes mobile communication and migrant women's becoming in the city, or how social constructions of gender-, class-, age-, and place-based identities produce particular engagements with mobile technologies.Less
This introductory chapter briefly discusses mobility—one physical and one virtual—in the lives of young rural-to-urban migrant women in China. It provides an ethnographic exploration of the cultural, social, aesthetic, and economic dimensions of mobile phone use by female migrants working in Beijing. Although mobile in the sense of migration from their home villages, their long work hours, rare time off, and confined social world caused them to be relatively immobile in the city. This immobility however was overcome in certain ways by their use of mobile phones for navigating social networks, enjoying forms of entertainment, participating in China's burgeoning consumer culture, and constructing a “modern” self. Drawing on critical/cultural and feminist theories of subjectivity, power, and technology, the chapter theorizes mobile communication and migrant women's becoming in the city, or how social constructions of gender-, class-, age-, and place-based identities produce particular engagements with mobile technologies.
Mizuko Ito and Daisuke Okabe
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195312805
- eISBN:
- 9780199847730
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195312805.003.0016
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter describes how teenagers' easy access to mobile phones (compared to a home landline phone) frees them from reserving the phone for consequential communication. Teens can then use their ...
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This chapter describes how teenagers' easy access to mobile phones (compared to a home landline phone) frees them from reserving the phone for consequential communication. Teens can then use their mobile phones to exchange moment-by-moment experiences in their daily lives with special partners, and thus to have a more continuous sense of connection with friends. The technology can shift how much time users spend with others and alter the nature of their interaction with them. Although the discussion describes problems of adolescence, it goes beyond this to identify how mobile telephones are used to handle some concerns that may be unique to Japanese life, and how previous generations of pagers and other technologies paved the way for mobile phones.Less
This chapter describes how teenagers' easy access to mobile phones (compared to a home landline phone) frees them from reserving the phone for consequential communication. Teens can then use their mobile phones to exchange moment-by-moment experiences in their daily lives with special partners, and thus to have a more continuous sense of connection with friends. The technology can shift how much time users spend with others and alter the nature of their interaction with them. Although the discussion describes problems of adolescence, it goes beyond this to identify how mobile telephones are used to handle some concerns that may be unique to Japanese life, and how previous generations of pagers and other technologies paved the way for mobile phones.
Cara Wallis
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814795262
- eISBN:
- 9780814784815
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814795262.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter continues to elaborate the notions of immobile mobility and necessary convergence through analyzing mobile phones and labor politics. It examines whether mobile phones can enhance ...
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This chapter continues to elaborate the notions of immobile mobility and necessary convergence through analyzing mobile phones and labor politics. It examines whether mobile phones can enhance migrant women's economic opportunities, such as by helping them to find a better job or increase their income. Employers are revealed to utilize mobile phones for purposes of surveillance and migrant women, in contrast, use mobile phones as tools of resistance. This chapter argues that despite their use of mobile phones, migrant women remain relatively immobile in the labor sphere, an area where migrant women must contend with myriad power relations that mirror and instantiate their subordinate position in the larger society. This relationship between mobile phones and labor can be analyzed in four realms: job seeking and social mobility; income generation; employer control and surveillance; and “mobile resistance”—largely symbolic yet nonetheless meaningful—by migrant women in the workplace.Less
This chapter continues to elaborate the notions of immobile mobility and necessary convergence through analyzing mobile phones and labor politics. It examines whether mobile phones can enhance migrant women's economic opportunities, such as by helping them to find a better job or increase their income. Employers are revealed to utilize mobile phones for purposes of surveillance and migrant women, in contrast, use mobile phones as tools of resistance. This chapter argues that despite their use of mobile phones, migrant women remain relatively immobile in the labor sphere, an area where migrant women must contend with myriad power relations that mirror and instantiate their subordinate position in the larger society. This relationship between mobile phones and labor can be analyzed in four realms: job seeking and social mobility; income generation; employer control and surveillance; and “mobile resistance”—largely symbolic yet nonetheless meaningful—by migrant women in the workplace.
Joanne Garde-Hansen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748640348
- eISBN:
- 9780748670949
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748640348.003.0009
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Drawing upon Annette Kuhn's personal memory work and analysis of her family photograph album (2002) and Anna Reading's recently articulated concept of ‘memobilia’ (Garde-Hansen et al 2009), this ...
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Drawing upon Annette Kuhn's personal memory work and analysis of her family photograph album (2002) and Anna Reading's recently articulated concept of ‘memobilia’ (Garde-Hansen et al 2009), this chapter examines the re-emergence of the photograph as a shared and networked reflection on family life. No longer laid out in a hard copy album, the family photograph exists in the memory cards of mobile camera phones, in online digital vaults, shared on Flickr, published in blogs and tagged in Facebook. Soon, the generation that takes family photographs and lovingly sticks them in an album will be gone. Yet, what are the consequences for the family photograph that has endured and re-emerged as a shareable, wearable phenomenon and what of the vanishing practice and experience of sifting through shoeboxes?Less
Drawing upon Annette Kuhn's personal memory work and analysis of her family photograph album (2002) and Anna Reading's recently articulated concept of ‘memobilia’ (Garde-Hansen et al 2009), this chapter examines the re-emergence of the photograph as a shared and networked reflection on family life. No longer laid out in a hard copy album, the family photograph exists in the memory cards of mobile camera phones, in online digital vaults, shared on Flickr, published in blogs and tagged in Facebook. Soon, the generation that takes family photographs and lovingly sticks them in an album will be gone. Yet, what are the consequences for the family photograph that has endured and re-emerged as a shareable, wearable phenomenon and what of the vanishing practice and experience of sifting through shoeboxes?
P. A. Geroski
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199248896
- eISBN:
- 9780191596308
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199248893.003.0005
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Microeconomics
Shows how the dominant design shapes the nature of the competition in the new mass market. Using the mobile market as an example, it describes the typical pattern of market growth as a logistic one, ...
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Shows how the dominant design shapes the nature of the competition in the new mass market. Using the mobile market as an example, it describes the typical pattern of market growth as a logistic one, with an initial slow rate, followed by a sudden take‐off into a period of rapid growth, which, eventually, slows. It devotes the rest of the chapter to look into the factors that might explain this S‐shaped growth. Genetically modified food and shipbuilding are some of the product‐case studies used to illustrate the analysis.Less
Shows how the dominant design shapes the nature of the competition in the new mass market. Using the mobile market as an example, it describes the typical pattern of market growth as a logistic one, with an initial slow rate, followed by a sudden take‐off into a period of rapid growth, which, eventually, slows. It devotes the rest of the chapter to look into the factors that might explain this S‐shaped growth. Genetically modified food and shipbuilding are some of the product‐case studies used to illustrate the analysis.
Martie van Tongeren and Philip Chadwick
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780198528616
- eISBN:
- 9780191723933
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198528616.003.0017
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter provides a general introduction to the assessment of radiofrequency in occupational and environmental epidemiological studies. It discusses strategies and methods used. It provides ...
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This chapter provides a general introduction to the assessment of radiofrequency in occupational and environmental epidemiological studies. It discusses strategies and methods used. It provides various examples and references.Less
This chapter provides a general introduction to the assessment of radiofrequency in occupational and environmental epidemiological studies. It discusses strategies and methods used. It provides various examples and references.
Cara Wallis
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814795262
- eISBN:
- 9780814784815
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814795262.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter examines young rural-to-urban migrant women's use of mobile phones for expanding and enriching various types of social relationships. It situates this discussion within Chinese concepts ...
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This chapter examines young rural-to-urban migrant women's use of mobile phones for expanding and enriching various types of social relationships. It situates this discussion within Chinese concepts of selfhood and guanxi (relationship) and relates these to Pierre Bourdieu's notion of social capital. One's guanxi networks of personal relations can be thought of as one's local world, made up of relationships categorized into three zones: the “personal core” made up of family members and very close friends; the “reliable zone” consisting of good friends; and the “effective zone,” which is larger and more open and can include all friends, coworkers, relatives, and potentially (but not likely) all fellow villagers. To Bourdieu, one's position both enables and constrains access to social capital, and those who are linked to others who have a large quantity of various forms of capital—money, knowledge, position, prestige—will have an advantage in the “game of society.”Less
This chapter examines young rural-to-urban migrant women's use of mobile phones for expanding and enriching various types of social relationships. It situates this discussion within Chinese concepts of selfhood and guanxi (relationship) and relates these to Pierre Bourdieu's notion of social capital. One's guanxi networks of personal relations can be thought of as one's local world, made up of relationships categorized into three zones: the “personal core” made up of family members and very close friends; the “reliable zone” consisting of good friends; and the “effective zone,” which is larger and more open and can include all friends, coworkers, relatives, and potentially (but not likely) all fellow villagers. To Bourdieu, one's position both enables and constrains access to social capital, and those who are linked to others who have a large quantity of various forms of capital—money, knowledge, position, prestige—will have an advantage in the “game of society.”
Ralph Schroeder
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195371284
- eISBN:
- 9780199865000
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195371284.003.0009
- Subject:
- Psychology, Human-Technology Interaction
There are various technologies for mediated interaction, but only two—virtual environments and videoconferencing systems—provide people with co-presence. Nevertheless, there are various technologies ...
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There are various technologies for mediated interaction, but only two—virtual environments and videoconferencing systems—provide people with co-presence. Nevertheless, there are various technologies which provide an experience approximating co-presence, including social networking sites, mobile phones, and text-chat. These are compared and contrasted with multi-user virtual environments, along the dimensions of how they represent the user and the space around the user, the level of mutual awareness they provide, and the mode of communication. With the proliferation of electronically mediated forms of interactions, these technologies will increasingly converge in the future. This chapter argues that multi-user virtual environments, since they provide one of two types of technology which are developing in the direction of a fully-immersive mode of being there together, also provide a means for understanding various multi-modal means of connectedness, by comparing them not just to face-to-face interaction but also to an immersive end-state.Less
There are various technologies for mediated interaction, but only two—virtual environments and videoconferencing systems—provide people with co-presence. Nevertheless, there are various technologies which provide an experience approximating co-presence, including social networking sites, mobile phones, and text-chat. These are compared and contrasted with multi-user virtual environments, along the dimensions of how they represent the user and the space around the user, the level of mutual awareness they provide, and the mode of communication. With the proliferation of electronically mediated forms of interactions, these technologies will increasingly converge in the future. This chapter argues that multi-user virtual environments, since they provide one of two types of technology which are developing in the direction of a fully-immersive mode of being there together, also provide a means for understanding various multi-modal means of connectedness, by comparing them not just to face-to-face interaction but also to an immersive end-state.
Sirpa Tenhunen
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190630270
- eISBN:
- 9780190876562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190630270.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Psychology and Interaction
Chapter 5 looks at how mobile phones mediate gender and kinship relationships. It demonstrates that the positive impacts of women’s phone use are subtle and ambiguous: most calls are about the slight ...
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Chapter 5 looks at how mobile phones mediate gender and kinship relationships. It demonstrates that the positive impacts of women’s phone use are subtle and ambiguous: most calls are about the slight redefinition of home boundaries. Phones in Janta make it possible for women to extend the safety associated with home to cover moving in the outside world. Phones also help women reach the outside world from their homes, providing them with new possibilities to choose the context for their speech and to engage in critical and unconventional discourses. Phones especially help young wives to challenge their mother-in law’s authority and build closer relationships with their mothers after marriage. However, women are positioned differently in how frequently they can make calls. A woman’s ability to call reflects the position she has carved for herself in her in-law’s house as well as the household’s economic standing.Less
Chapter 5 looks at how mobile phones mediate gender and kinship relationships. It demonstrates that the positive impacts of women’s phone use are subtle and ambiguous: most calls are about the slight redefinition of home boundaries. Phones in Janta make it possible for women to extend the safety associated with home to cover moving in the outside world. Phones also help women reach the outside world from their homes, providing them with new possibilities to choose the context for their speech and to engage in critical and unconventional discourses. Phones especially help young wives to challenge their mother-in law’s authority and build closer relationships with their mothers after marriage. However, women are positioned differently in how frequently they can make calls. A woman’s ability to call reflects the position she has carved for herself in her in-law’s house as well as the household’s economic standing.
NAOMI S. BARON
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195313055
- eISBN:
- 9780199871094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195313055.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter provides an overview of what is meant by language in an online and mobile world, offering a chronological precis of the types of language media to emerge over the past thirty-five years, ...
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This chapter provides an overview of what is meant by language in an online and mobile world, offering a chronological precis of the types of language media to emerge over the past thirty-five years, with particular emphasis on some of the newer communication platforms used in the Internet. A bit of terminology is introduced to provide a common vocabulary. Various types of language transmitted via the gamut of information and communication technologies ICTs can be classified under the umbrella term “electronically-mediated communication” (EMC), which can be either synchronous or synchronous. Examples of asynchronous communication are one-to-one email, texting on mobile phones, newsgroups, listservs, blogs, MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube, while synchronous communication includes instant messaging, computer conferencing, MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons/Dimensions), MOOs (MUDs, Object Oriented), chat, and Second Life. This chapter discusses the evolution of EMC from email in 1971 to YouTube in 2005.Less
This chapter provides an overview of what is meant by language in an online and mobile world, offering a chronological precis of the types of language media to emerge over the past thirty-five years, with particular emphasis on some of the newer communication platforms used in the Internet. A bit of terminology is introduced to provide a common vocabulary. Various types of language transmitted via the gamut of information and communication technologies ICTs can be classified under the umbrella term “electronically-mediated communication” (EMC), which can be either synchronous or synchronous. Examples of asynchronous communication are one-to-one email, texting on mobile phones, newsgroups, listservs, blogs, MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube, while synchronous communication includes instant messaging, computer conferencing, MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons/Dimensions), MOOs (MUDs, Object Oriented), chat, and Second Life. This chapter discusses the evolution of EMC from email in 1971 to YouTube in 2005.
Cara Wallis
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814795262
- eISBN:
- 9780814784815
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814795262.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter situates the mobile phone specifically within China's quest for development and modernity. It illustrates how the mobile phone is an important signifier of urban modernity for rural ...
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This chapter situates the mobile phone specifically within China's quest for development and modernity. It illustrates how the mobile phone is an important signifier of urban modernity for rural women, and argues that the mobile phone is a technology of the self that is articulated to self-shaping as well as disciplines and exclusions. By buying an expensive mobile phone young migrant women were claiming a lifestyle they wanted to lead, in addition to the relationships they hoped to sustain, and they were producing themselves in a particular manner, one that contested the dominant discourses surrounding rural women and “backwardness.” Mobile phones allow women to participate in a form of consumer citizenship in contrast to the legal and social citizenship they are denied in the city. The chapter concludes by exploring more deeply the constitutive nature of gender and technology by presenting an in-depth case study of a beauty salon.Less
This chapter situates the mobile phone specifically within China's quest for development and modernity. It illustrates how the mobile phone is an important signifier of urban modernity for rural women, and argues that the mobile phone is a technology of the self that is articulated to self-shaping as well as disciplines and exclusions. By buying an expensive mobile phone young migrant women were claiming a lifestyle they wanted to lead, in addition to the relationships they hoped to sustain, and they were producing themselves in a particular manner, one that contested the dominant discourses surrounding rural women and “backwardness.” Mobile phones allow women to participate in a form of consumer citizenship in contrast to the legal and social citizenship they are denied in the city. The chapter concludes by exploring more deeply the constitutive nature of gender and technology by presenting an in-depth case study of a beauty salon.
NAOMI S. BARON
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195313055
- eISBN:
- 9780199871094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195313055.003.0010
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Beyond the effects that contemporary media may be having upon our language, we need to think about whether computers and mobile phones are impacting the social fabric as well. Since the early days of ...
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Beyond the effects that contemporary media may be having upon our language, we need to think about whether computers and mobile phones are impacting the social fabric as well. Since the early days of mainframes, many people have feared that computers are undermining our sense of community. These concerns proliferated with the explosive growth of computer-mediated communication such as email. The good news is that most contemporary studies examining the social effects of Internet use indicate we have more cause for relief than concern. Increasingly, more and more people are “always on” one technology or another, whether for communicating, doing work, or relaxing by surfing the web or playing games. Regardless of the purpose, the fact that people are always on means that they need either to drop some other activity or switch to multitasking mode. This book has examined what kind of people we become — as individuals and as family members or friends — if our thoughts and our social relationships must increasingly compete for our attention with digital media.Less
Beyond the effects that contemporary media may be having upon our language, we need to think about whether computers and mobile phones are impacting the social fabric as well. Since the early days of mainframes, many people have feared that computers are undermining our sense of community. These concerns proliferated with the explosive growth of computer-mediated communication such as email. The good news is that most contemporary studies examining the social effects of Internet use indicate we have more cause for relief than concern. Increasingly, more and more people are “always on” one technology or another, whether for communicating, doing work, or relaxing by surfing the web or playing games. Regardless of the purpose, the fact that people are always on means that they need either to drop some other activity or switch to multitasking mode. This book has examined what kind of people we become — as individuals and as family members or friends — if our thoughts and our social relationships must increasingly compete for our attention with digital media.
Gitte Stald and Kjartan Ólafsson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781847428837
- eISBN:
- 9781447307723
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847428837.003.0022
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
Online communication and information is increasingly accessible to young people from several other platforms than traditional personal computers. While mobile phones may be primary sources of online ...
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Online communication and information is increasingly accessible to young people from several other platforms than traditional personal computers. While mobile phones may be primary sources of online access to some and supplementing access to others, all mobile platforms offer the benefits of being personal, portable and always on and to hand. Increased online access from mobile phones raises two questions: does more access to the internet from mobile phones expose children to more risk and harm, and are there different risks and harm if children use mobile access rather than traditional personal computers? This chapter explores and analyses potential correlations between online access through mobile platforms, and patterns of exposure to risks.Less
Online communication and information is increasingly accessible to young people from several other platforms than traditional personal computers. While mobile phones may be primary sources of online access to some and supplementing access to others, all mobile platforms offer the benefits of being personal, portable and always on and to hand. Increased online access from mobile phones raises two questions: does more access to the internet from mobile phones expose children to more risk and harm, and are there different risks and harm if children use mobile access rather than traditional personal computers? This chapter explores and analyses potential correlations between online access through mobile platforms, and patterns of exposure to risks.
Sirpa Tenhunen
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190630270
- eISBN:
- 9780190876562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190630270.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Psychology and Interaction
Chapter 3 describes and analyzes the incremental process through which mobile phones became ubiquitous in a village in rural West Bengal, India. It also introduces the village as the main setting of ...
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Chapter 3 describes and analyzes the incremental process through which mobile phones became ubiquitous in a village in rural West Bengal, India. It also introduces the village as the main setting of the research and describes the changing patterns of connections and interaction among the villagers, as well as between the village and the outside world. Mobile telephony invigorated and built on these connections that influence the forms of socialities in the village. Mobile phones were neither the first nor the only media in the village: radios and televisions preceded mobile telephony, and by 2012 some villagers had acquired landline phones and computers. This chapter compares the appropriation of mobile phones to how other media—landline phones, radios, televisions, and computers—were adopted. Mobile phones were affordable and could be easily integrated into preexisting communication practices.Less
Chapter 3 describes and analyzes the incremental process through which mobile phones became ubiquitous in a village in rural West Bengal, India. It also introduces the village as the main setting of the research and describes the changing patterns of connections and interaction among the villagers, as well as between the village and the outside world. Mobile telephony invigorated and built on these connections that influence the forms of socialities in the village. Mobile phones were neither the first nor the only media in the village: radios and televisions preceded mobile telephony, and by 2012 some villagers had acquired landline phones and computers. This chapter compares the appropriation of mobile phones to how other media—landline phones, radios, televisions, and computers—were adopted. Mobile phones were affordable and could be easily integrated into preexisting communication practices.
Gerard Goggin
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262113120
- eISBN:
- 9780262276818
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262113120.003.0026
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
This chapter focuses on cultural studies of mobile communication. It discusses the importance of mobile phone customization and making it personal and user friendly. Reasons for the success of text ...
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This chapter focuses on cultural studies of mobile communication. It discusses the importance of mobile phone customization and making it personal and user friendly. Reasons for the success of text messaging, which is an intrinsic part of mobile culture, are explored. Cultural studies of mobiles and their relationship with youth culture, spirituality, and religion are discussed, along with the role of mobiles in connecting diasporic communities. The chapter also explores the visual cultures of mobile communication, including mobile photography and multimedia messaging, along with the growing interconnection of mobiles, the Internet, and online technologies with new forms of image representation and sharing.Less
This chapter focuses on cultural studies of mobile communication. It discusses the importance of mobile phone customization and making it personal and user friendly. Reasons for the success of text messaging, which is an intrinsic part of mobile culture, are explored. Cultural studies of mobiles and their relationship with youth culture, spirituality, and religion are discussed, along with the role of mobiles in connecting diasporic communities. The chapter also explores the visual cultures of mobile communication, including mobile photography and multimedia messaging, along with the growing interconnection of mobiles, the Internet, and online technologies with new forms of image representation and sharing.
James D. Savage
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199238699
- eISBN:
- 9780191696770
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199238699.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union, Political Economy
This chapter discusses the Eurostat's major rulings on the allocation of mobile phone licenses, swaps, and securitization that significantly influenced member states' fiscal positions. The swaps case ...
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This chapter discusses the Eurostat's major rulings on the allocation of mobile phone licenses, swaps, and securitization that significantly influenced member states' fiscal positions. The swaps case is particularly interesting, for, as did the France Telecom decision, it reveals the sometimes contentious nature and constraints of the oversight and influence exercised by principals and the efforts of agents to build autonomy. Two more major rulings in 2003 and 2004 on unfunded pension obligation payments and public-private partnerships dramatically improved the deficit position of member states in violation of the Stability and Growth Pact. Finally, Eurostat's exercise of its power to refuse to certify the budgetary statistical data supplied by a member state in its biannual report led directly to the initiation of the excessive deficit procedure against Portugal and France.Less
This chapter discusses the Eurostat's major rulings on the allocation of mobile phone licenses, swaps, and securitization that significantly influenced member states' fiscal positions. The swaps case is particularly interesting, for, as did the France Telecom decision, it reveals the sometimes contentious nature and constraints of the oversight and influence exercised by principals and the efforts of agents to build autonomy. Two more major rulings in 2003 and 2004 on unfunded pension obligation payments and public-private partnerships dramatically improved the deficit position of member states in violation of the Stability and Growth Pact. Finally, Eurostat's exercise of its power to refuse to certify the budgetary statistical data supplied by a member state in its biannual report led directly to the initiation of the excessive deficit procedure against Portugal and France.
Thomas Molony
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262113120
- eISBN:
- 9780262276818
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262113120.003.0025
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
This chapter focuses on the lack of use of mobile phones for developmental applications in Tanzania. According to the study presented, mobile handsets are popular in Tanzania because people think ...
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This chapter focuses on the lack of use of mobile phones for developmental applications in Tanzania. According to the study presented, mobile handsets are popular in Tanzania because people think they are cool and are seen as a status symbol. Further, young girls in Zambia are willing to have unprotected sex with men of twice their age for the latest mobile phones. The chapter presents information on the growing market for second-hand mobiles in Tanzania along with the thriving market for counterfeit mobile phones. It concludes that the informal economy of mobile trade seems to be fueling the economy of many African cities.Less
This chapter focuses on the lack of use of mobile phones for developmental applications in Tanzania. According to the study presented, mobile handsets are popular in Tanzania because people think they are cool and are seen as a status symbol. Further, young girls in Zambia are willing to have unprotected sex with men of twice their age for the latest mobile phones. The chapter presents information on the growing market for second-hand mobiles in Tanzania along with the thriving market for counterfeit mobile phones. It concludes that the informal economy of mobile trade seems to be fueling the economy of many African cities.
