Political Protest and Mobile Communication

2020 ◽  
pp. 243-256
Author(s):  
Christina Neumayer
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Media Technologies

This chapter explores the role of mobile phones and smartphones for activists in political protest. Activist practices and modalities of organizing and coordination, identity formation and representation of political protest, production of visibility and maintenance of security may have changed as a result of the presence of these technologies. The chapter engages with this issue as a sociotechnical process at the intersection of social movement studies and (mobile) media studies. It explores the evolution of mobile media technologies and political activism and illustrates the tensions that have emerged in this interrelationship. It emphasizes the extent to which political protest has become dependent upon and constrained by mobile phones. The chapter concludes by arguing that political activism and mobile technologies are interdependent and that it is at this sociotechnical intersection that we must ask critical questions concerning the roles mobile phones play in political protest today.

Portables, luggables, and transportables: Historicizing the imagined affordances of mobile computing

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meryl Alper
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Consumer Electronics ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Portable Computing ◽  
History Of

This article contributes to the history of “mobile media beyond mobile phones” by accounting for genres of portable computing (or “portables”) that emerged in the late 1980s. Though largely overlooked by historians of technology, these mobile, less-than-mobile, and relatively immobile devices helped shape the social and cultural uses of contemporary mobile communication. I argue that the technological capabilities of portables altered users’ expectations for how and where computers could be incorporated into daily life, be it near bodies, on hand, or at one’s fingertips. While the market for bulky portables dwindled by the late 1990s, as laptops and cell phones became more ubiquitous, these consumer electronics are nonetheless useful today for understanding the perpetual role of materiality and embodiment in how we conceive of the imagined affordances of mobile communication technologies.

Mobile Direct Marketing

2009 ◽  
pp. 269-281
Author(s):  
Ralf Wagner ◽  
Martin Klaus
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Direct Marketing ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Mobile Telephones ◽  
Technology Applications ◽  
Marketing Actions ◽  
Potential Customers

The role of mobile terminals such as mobile telephones, or PDAs, is shifting from gadgetry to serious platforms for direct marketing actions. The ubiquitous use of these devices offers companies a perfect medium through which to promote their products and services in a personalized and interactive way. Since mobile phone users are rarely without their mobile phones, mobile electronic devices provide marketers with almost permanent contact opportunities to introduce their products directly to potential clients. Although potential customers are attracted by the promotion of appealing technologies and sophisticated products and services via mobile communication, the intended impact of this direct marketing approach is often thwarted as it is seen by some as invasive and an infringement of privacy. This chapter outlines the opportunities and challenges of mobile technology applications for direct marketing and relates mobile technologies to a scheme of tasks for successful direct marketing. The chapter concludes by highlighting examples to demonstrate ways of conducting successful mobile direct marketing.

Improving Cross-Cultural Awareness and Communication through Mobile Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 308-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adele Botha ◽  
Steve Vosloo ◽  
John Kuner ◽  
Madelein van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Intercultural Competencies ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Cultures

Increasingly, technology is mediating the way in which the youth around the world communicate, consume content and create meaning. As mobile communication media and the internet become more pervasive, young people from different cultures and communities are afforded more opportunities for collaboration across previously unbridgeable distances. The need for cross-cultural awareness and communication is thus more important than ever. The initiative described in this article, successfully demonstrated the role of mobile phones and the web as mediating technologies in the development of intercultural competencies and communication skills among a group of teenagers scattered across two countries.[Article copies are available for purchase from InfoSci-on-Demand.com]

Religious Use of Mobile Phones

2015 ◽  
pp. 308-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyong James Cho ◽  
Heidi A. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Mobile Phone Technology ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
History Of

Mobile phones have had a profound impact on many aspects of contemporary life, including the practice of religion. This chapter outlines the significance of the intersection of religion and mobile phone technology. The study of religion and mobile phones is closely connected to the broader field of “digital religion,” which for nearly two decades has explored how religious individuals and communities use and respond to digital media. Scholars of digital religion have argued that religious communities and culture are increasingly being influence and shaped by digital media in notable ways, especially in relation to issues of identity, community, and authority (Campbell, 2012). These issues are also important in understanding how religious groups engage with and are influenced by mobile technologies and digital culture. The chapter begins by defining the study of mobile media and outlines the history of digital religion as a field of study. Next, it highlights three key areas of research focus in relation to religion and mobile media: the use of mobile media by religious individuals and communities, how religion has been expressed through mobile applications, and reflection on broader cultural significance of the intersection of religion and mobile phones. This leads to a discussion of emerging issues within the study of religion and mobile phones.

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.

Mobile communication, social presence, and perceived security on public transport

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-292
Author(s):  
Dennis Reichow ◽  
Thomas N. Friemel
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Perceived Security ◽  
The Relationship

Mobile phones have become a ubiquitous phenomenon on public transport. However, little attention has been given to the effect of mobile communication on perceived security on public transport. This paper develops a model of social presence and perceived security in order to understand the widespread use of mobile phones on public transport as well as its effects. The first part of the model suggests a mediating role of social presence to understand how perceived security motivates mobile communication. The respective hypotheses are tested with a representative survey ( N = 2,267), and the results support the mediating role of social presence. The second part of the model assumes that social presence is not only a motive to use mobile communication but also helps to improve perceived security. Based on a 2-week mobile experience sampling with 86 participants and 1,264 measurement points, the effect of mobile communication and social presence obtained, as well as individual and situational factors on perceived security were tested. The respective hypotheses were partially supported but also suggest that other coping strategies might be of relevance to fully understand the relationship between mobile communication and situational perceived security. Besides the academic insights, these results suggest that public transport operators should consider expanding mobile phone coverage in their vehicles and stations to improve perceived security and make their services more attractive.

scholarly journals Queered online pandemic relationships: Mobile expressions of intimacies, care, and emotion work

Plaridel ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonalou S. Labor ◽  
Holden Kenneth Alcazaren
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Gay Couples ◽  
Communication Platform

Drawing from the assumptions on queer and mobile intimacy, emotion work, and care, this paper explores the role of mobile communication platform access and use among Filipino gay couples who have been physically separated because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper looks at in-depth narratives of 24 gay men whose romances have been transferred to and transformed by messaging apps due to the pandemic. The accounts of these gay couples represent the realities of cosmopolitan gay men in negotiating digital romantic presence as they manage connection despite the distance. Mobile technologies have deepened the synchronous and asynchronous rituals of maneuvering romance as couples manage imagined emphatic romances. The participants’ descriptions revealed queered technology-use in bridging and maintaining imagined intimacies while feeling trapped in the dependence on mediated means of enacting such intimacies.

Mobile Phones in Action

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-112
Author(s):  
Christian Licoppe
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Current Development ◽  
First Line ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Sequential Organization

This chapter discusses the research-oriented toward mobile communication and done within the perspective of ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis (EM/CA). The first line of investigation focuses on the way specific affordances of mobile devices may enable or constrain certain actions and features of the sequential organization of talk. The second one is concerned with understanding how mobile phones and the kind of on-screen resources and events they make available on the move may constitute relevant resources in the organization of activities involving co-present participants. Eventually, to take into account the multiplication of communicative functionalities and social media apps currently available on smartphones and dealing in depth with the example of video-mediated communication, the author sketches the kind of research agenda that could make mutually relevant mobile communication research and EM/CA in the context of the current development of mobile technologies and resources.

Mobile Devices Contribute to Feedback Processes

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-213
Author(s):  
Beverly Dann
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Feedback Process ◽  
Small Pilot Study ◽  
Performance Reviews ◽  
Practical Performance ◽  
Supervising Teachers

The use of mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets in education is a problematic field of research that fits within the scope of assessment, mobile technologies, dialogic practices, and more broadly, feedback. This small pilot study investigated how supervising teachers incorporated a mobile device in the form of a video-enabled app into practicums to promote feedback in the form of dialogue and record achievements in alignment with requisite criteria. It further investigated the role of the app in the dialogic feedback process and the interactions between supervising teachers and preservice teachers when they undertake practical performance reviews. The findings showed that using mobile devices aids the dialogic practices of preservice teachers and leads to better outcomes. Despite the evidence, systemic organizational intent will be needed to reinforce the benefits and encourage adoption.

Mundane Mobile Maintenance, Entrapment, and Hyper-Coordination

2015 ◽  
pp. 108-116
Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Hall ◽  
Natalie Pennington
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Voice Calls ◽  
Global Population

This article reviews literature associated with mundane mobile maintenance, entrapment, and hyper-coordination. Licoppe and Huertin (2001) and Ling and Ytrri (2002) first noted the important role of mobile phones in users' personal relationships. Much more than a device to make voice calls, the mobile phone has become highly integrated into the everyday interactions of vast segments of the global population. But with greater connectivity comes the possibility of dependency and anxiety. The integration and domestication of mobile phones can lead to heightened expectations of interpersonal connection and availability, which may result in feelings of entrapment and guilt. By providing a foundation in the earliest research on these inter-related topics and highlighting recent key studies, this article provides a thorough background of research on this subset of mobile communication practices.

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