Mobile Communication Technologies, for Good and for Ill

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Fischoff
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies

Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Communicative Practice ◽  
Political Contention ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Everyday Resistance

Over the past decades, waves of political contention involving the use of information and communication technologies have swept across the globe. The phenomenon stimulates the scholarship on digital communication technologies and contentious collective action to thrive as an exciting, relevant, but highly fragmentary and contested field with disciplinary boundaries. To advance the interdisciplinary understanding, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age outlines a communication-centered framework that articulates the intricate relationship between technology, communication, and contention. It further prods us to engage more critically with existing theories from communication, sociology, and political science on digital technologies and political movements. Given the theoretical endeavor, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age systematically explores, for the first time, the influence of mobile technology on political contention in China, the country with the world’s largest number of mobile and Internet users. Using first-hand in-depth interview and fieldwork data, it tracks the strategic choice of mobile phones as repertoires of contention, illustrates the effective mobilization of mobile communication on the basis of its strong and reciprocal social ties, and identifies the communicative practice of forwarding officially alleged “rumors” as a form of everyday resistance. Through this ground-breaking study, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age presents a nuanced portrayal of an emerging dynamics of contention—both its strengths and limitations—through the embedding of mobile communication into Chinese society and politics.

Understanding women’s mobile phone use in rural Kenya: An affordance-based approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Wyche ◽  
Nightingale Simiyu ◽  
Martha E. Othieno
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Rural Kenya ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Definition Of

Increases in mobile phone ownership and Internet access throughout Africa continue to motivate initiatives to use information and communication technologies (ICTs)—in particular, mobile phones—to address long-standing socioeconomic problems in the “developing world.” While it is generally recognized that mobile phones may help to address these problems by providing pertinent information, less widely known is exactly how (and if) a handset’s human–computer interface—that is, its software and hardware design—supports this form of communication. The concept of “affordances” has long been used to answer such questions. In this paper, we use Hartson’s definition of affordances to qualitatively investigate rural Kenyan women’s interactions with their mobile phones. Our detailed analysis provides empirically grounded answers to questions about the cognitive, physical, and sensory affordances of handsets used in our field sites and how they support and/or constrain mobile communication. We then discuss the implications of our findings: in particular, how this affordance-based approach draws attention to mobile phones’ design features and to the context in which they and their users are embedded—a focus which suggests new design and research opportunities in mobile communication.

Signature-Encryption Scheme: A Novel Solution to Mobile Computation

2012 ◽  
Vol 546-547 ◽  
pp. 1415-1420
Author(s):  
Hai Yong Bao ◽  
Man De Xie ◽  
Zhen Fu Cao ◽  
Shan Shan Hong
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Discrete Logarithm ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Random Oracle ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Encryption Scheme ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Storage Devices ◽  
Diffie Hellman

Mobile communication technologies have been widely utilized in daily lives, many low-computing-power and weakly-structured-storage devices have emerged, such as PDA, cell phones and smart cards, etc. How to solve the security problems in such devices has become a key problem in secure mobile communication. In this paper, we would like to propose an efficient signature-encryption scheme. The security of the signature part is not loosely related to Discrete Logarithm Problem (DLP) assumption as most of the traditional schemes but tightly related to the Decisional Diffie-Hellman Problem (DDHP) assumption in the Random Oracle Models. Different from the existing solutions, our scheme introduces a trusted agent of the receiver who can filter the “rubbish” messages beforehand. Thus, with high efficiency in computation and storage, it is particularly suitable for the above mobile devices with severely constrained resources and can satisfy the security requirements of mobile computations.

Communities of Communication

2014 ◽  
pp. 808-823
Author(s):  
Laurie Stone Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Personal Experiences

This chapter discusses the potential of social media use as an access to interpersonal relationships for teachers. Society has been forever altered by the shifts in the intellectual landscapes of learning and knowing through the Internet. By utilizing mobile communication technologies, Internet pathways allow growth in personal and professional relationships in real time, providing opportunity for open and profound dialogues, learning, and global perspectives. Yet even with the strong social presence of Internet communications in today's society, our teachers continue to struggle with building interpersonal relationships with colleagues. Drawing from the literature as well as from personal experiences and relationships, this chapter explores some of the interpersonal challenges teachers face at work due to physical and abstract barriers, as well as the possible solution found in social media. This perspective hopefully adds to understanding regarding the interpersonal challenges teachers may experience at work, the importance of meeting those challenges, and the potential inter-relational benefits resulting from social media use.

“Stop Phubbing Me!”

2016 ◽  
pp. 192-201
Author(s):  
Alan César Belo Angeluci
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Barriers And Opportunities ◽  
Absent Presence

In studies on mobile communication, a topic that has been of particular interest is the impact of increased adoption and use of mobile devices in everyday activities and in the context of interpersonal relationships. However, the ease of accessing digital content and connecting to people physically distant through the recent mobile communication technologies has shown barriers and opportunities in human interaction. Based on the theoretical approaches on identity and relational artifacts grounded in mobility and absent presence concepts, this paper describes some aspects among young people in Brazil in relation to the “phubbing” phenomenon. The term was coined to describe the act of ignoring someone due to the use of a smartphone. The results indicated effects on the level of attention and interaction, regarding not only the content of smartphone, but also the social protocol and the face-to-face communication.

Mobile Communication

2013 ◽  
pp. 217-233
Author(s):  
Ozlem Hesapci-Sanaktekin ◽  
Irem Somer
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Communication Industry ◽  
Mobile Communication Industry

With the improvements in communication technologies and the increased need for mobile communication among users, the mobile communication industry has been faced with fast-paced developments in the last few decades. The developments in mobile communication technologies provide opportunities that cannot be provided by traditional communication tools. Mobile applications are considered examples of such opportunities. The services offered by mobile phone technologies are diversified by the mobile applications that can be downloaded through digital platforms, and with these applications smart-phone users become even more active users. The current chapter reports findings from a study that employed a structured online questionnaire with 271 smart-phone users. The findings revealed that mobile application use, either free or paid, is explained by the period of smart-phone use, attitudes toward mobile applications, financial cost, and opinion leadership. Furthermore, free applications are more frequently used when the innovativeness increases and the perceived application cost decreases. The results present important outcomes for mobile companies, the digital platform providers, as well as mobile application producers.

Growing Up Wireless

2008 ◽  
pp. 99-125
Author(s):  
Letizia Caronia
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter illustrates the role of the mobile phone in the rise of new cultural models of parenting. According to a phenomenological theoretical approach to culture and everyday life, the author argues that the relationship between technologies, culture, and society should be conceived as a mutual construction. As cultural artefacts, mobile communication technologies both are domesticated by people into their cultural ways of living and create new ones. How are mobile phones domesticated by already existing cultural models of parenting? How does the introduction of the mobile phone affect family life and intergenerational relationships? How does mobile contact contribute in the construction of new cultural models of “being a parent” and “being a child”? Analysing new social phenomena such as “hyperparenting” and the “dialogic use” of mobile phones, the author argues upon the role of mobile communication technologies in articulating the paradoxical nature of the contemporary cultural model of family education.

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