Exploiting "approximate communication" for mobile media applications

This paper explores emerging practices of intimacy, publicity and privacy evident in online and mobile media applications. It focuses on platforms that facilitate, obscure or reveal adulterous behavior, to understand the surveillance logic underpinning these products. Spouse-busting websites and their accompanying devices are part of a booming industry that renders marital disloyalty open to both amateur and professional surveillance. Promotional testimonies highlight the ease with which monitoring equipment can be deployed, drawing on authenticating 'user-generated' aesthetics to reinforce product credentials. The very need for adultery technologies is symptomatic of a period in which some individuals see few options for intimate support - few visions or practices of community - other than the fulfillment to be gained from a dependent partner. As Laura Kipnis argues, the modern relationship is one in which lovers 'must know everything there is to know about one another' (2003: 162). This accords with broader transformations in intimacy encouraging openness and communication between self-directed individuals. The paper offers an alternative reading to these dominant ideals. It suggests that adultery apps evidence a modest ethics of erasure that might work to decouple the pact between surveillance, transparency and security.

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Beyond participation to co-creation of meaning: mobile social media in generative learning communities

Social Science Information ◽

10.1177/0539018410370726 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 351-369 ◽

Cited By ~ 76

Author(s):

Sarah Lewis ◽

Roy Pea ◽

Joseph Rosen

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Interaction ◽

Learning Communities ◽

Informal Learning ◽

Generative Learning ◽

Mobile Media ◽

Participatory Media ◽

The Social ◽

Social Landscape ◽

Media Applications

Digital social media is dramatically changing the social landscape and the ways in which we understand ‘participation’. As youth embrace these dynamic yet highly scripted forms of mediated social interaction, educators have struggled to find ways to harness these new participatory forms to support learning. This article considers the interactive structures and frameworks that underlie much of ‘Web 2.0’ participatory media, and proposes that theories of social learning and action could greatly inform the design of participatory media applications to support learning. We propose engaging the potential of mediated social interaction to foster ‘generative learning communities’ and describe an informal learning social media application under development known as ‘Mobltz’ — embracing concepts of ‘mobile media blitz’ with the intentional emphasis on the syllable ‘mob’. The application is an attempt to bring guidance from what social science knows about learning and human development to craft interactional affordances based on sharing of meaning and experiences.

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Managing social adoption and technology adaption in longitudinal studies of mobile media applications

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia - MUM '10 ◽

10.1145/1899475.1899501 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Bram Lievens ◽

Nataša Milić-Frayling ◽

Valentine Lerouge ◽

Jo Pierson ◽

Gerard Oleksik ◽

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Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Studies ◽

Mobile Media ◽

Media Applications

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Identified Customer Requirements in Mobile Video Markets - A Pan-European Case

Handbook of Research in Mobile Business ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-817-8.ch054 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 754-764

Author(s):

Torsten Brodt

Keyword(s):

Field Research ◽

Mobile Media ◽

Data Services ◽

Cognitive Reasoning ◽

Self Confidence ◽

Customer Preferences ◽

Chain Analysis ◽

Rich Media ◽

Media Services ◽

Media Applications

Due to a significant cost advantage, mobile multicasting technology bears the potential to achieve extensive diffusion of mobile rich media applications. As weak performance of previous mobile data services suggests, past developments have focused on technology and missed customer preferences. Mobile multicasting represents a radical innovation. Currently, little insight on consumer behaviour exists regarding such services. This chapter presents results of qualitative and quantitative field research conducted in three countries. It provides a continuous customer integration approach that applies established methods of market research to the creation of mobile services. Means-end chain analysis reveals consumers’ cognitive reasoning and conjoint analysis drills down to the importance of service attributes. Desire for self confidence and social integration are identified key motivators for consumption of mobile media. Services should aim for technological perfection and deliver actual and entertaining content. Interestingly, consumers appreciate reduced but tailored contents and price appears not to be a superseding criterion.

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WhatsApp group as a shared resource for coping with political violence: The case of mothers living in an ongoing conflict area

Mobile Media & Communication ◽

10.1177/20501579211021455 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 205015792110214

Author(s):

Yuval Roitman ◽

Daphna Yeshua-Katz

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Political Violence ◽

Crisis Communication ◽

Instant Messaging ◽

Coping Resource ◽

Mobile Media ◽

Communal Coping ◽

Conflict Area ◽

Media Applications ◽

Depth Interviews

In recent years, mobile media applications have become a significant resource for crisis communication and communal coping during natural disasters and wars. Drawing on communal coping and media affordance research, we examined the roles that a WhatsApp group plays for mothers living in an ongoing conflict area. We examined, through in-depth interviews, a local WhatsApp group operating in a community adjacent to the Israel–Gaza border. Findings revealed the unique emotion-focused and problem-focused coping strategies people use when facing ongoing threats. Four affordances—immediacy, reachability, mobility, and multimediality—contributed to WhatsApp’s role as a shared and ubiquitous coping resource. This study demonstrates the ways in which instant messaging communication affordances contribute to communal coping strategies in ongoing conflict areas.

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