It’s the text, stupid! Mobile phones, religious communities, and the silent threat of text messages

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 2325-2346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hananel Rosenberg ◽  
Menahem Blondheim ◽  
Elihu Katz
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Perception Of Threat ◽  
Textual Community ◽  
Communal Space ◽  
Voice Calls

This study explores the Jewish ultra-Orthodox “kosher cellphone,” a device that can be used only for voice calls. It asks why the leadership of this highly textual community didn’t stop at blocking Internet use over the kosher cellphone and went on to block texting messages as well. Using both interviews with ultra-Orthodox anti-cellphone-activists and content analysis of online discussions among community members, the study analyzes the perception of threat that underlies the prohibition of texting, and explores how this prohibition is received in the community. The findings show that in contrast to the threat posed by improper content, which affects the external boundaries of this enclave community, blocking texting stems from a perception that the technology’s configuration threatens intra-communal monitoring and the control of the dissemination of information within the communal space. Our findings add a number of dimensions to the current understanding of the nexus of new media, social control, and isolated religious communities.

scholarly journals Understanding The Purpose and Potential Popularity of Mobile Phone Use in Zambia’s Maize Production

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gershom Endelani Mwalupaso ◽  
Xu Tian ◽  
Eunice Matafwali ◽  
Moses Chansa Mwamba ◽  
Essiagnon John-Philippe Alavo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Average Treatment Effect ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Maize Production ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Voice Calls

There is a growing use of mobile phones in rural areas on account of its relative inexpensiveness and lack of requirement for an urban environment. As a platform for accessing information through text messages and voice calls, farmers are able to collect agricultural information which may lead to higher productivity due to technology spillover. If the use of mobile phones contributes to the improvement of farmers’ productivity, their agricultural output level should increase. In this study, we investigate the adoption of mobile phones to obtain agricultural information and its effect on smallholder maize farmers’ production using cross-sectional data from Zambia. Understanding such causal effects is indispensable especially against the background of vision 2030. The propensity score matching (PSM) method was adopted to estimate the average treatment effect of treated of mobile phone adoption in agriculture. We found that the use of mobile phones significantly increases farmers’ productivity, by about 30%. If farmers start to adopt mobile phones to collect agricultural information, the total maize output would also increase by 30.36%, which would culminate in feeding two more people per household daily for the whole year. Therefore, we cautiously conclude that mobile phone use in agriculture serves the purpose of contributing to the fight against hunger via enhancing maize production and this is driving its popularity among smallholder farmers in rural Zambia.

scholarly journals Elements of automation of distance emergency alerts from persons with disabilities

Vestnik MGSU ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 120-129
Author(s):  
Andrey Anatol’evich Volkov ◽  
Sergey Vladimirovich Antonov
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Phone Call ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Short Text ◽  
Operations Control ◽  
Smart House ◽  
Voice Calls

At the present time the system of “Smart house” allows passing messages on any type of emergencies only out loud (phone call), though some individuals with disabilities will not be able to report an accident. Moreover, the pall showed, that 55 % of respondents would prefer sending text message on fire or other emergency to operations control duty desk. The respondents of this group feel it’s easier to make a photo or video of the accident. Though it is still impossible to analyze the data received in this form and make decisions automatically. In the conditions of yearly increase of the number of mobile phones getting text messages on emergencies is as important as processing of voice calls. Receiving and processing text messages would be current in case of terrorist attack. Any victim can noiseless send just one word and inform on the emergency. The article analyzes the process of receiving and processing messages when calling the emergency number 112. We propose a module of sending Messages-112 by persons with disabilities in the system of “smart house” in the form of short text messages (SMS).

Sexting Panic

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Adele Hasinoff
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Sexual Agency ◽  
Internet Applications ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
The Creation

This book illustrates that anxieties about technology and teen girls' sexuality distract from critical questions about how to adapt norms of privacy and consent for new media. Though mobile phones can be used to cause harm, it notes that the criminalization and abstinence policies meant to curb sexting often fail to account for distinctions between consensual sharing and malicious distribution. The book describes sexting as the creation and sharing of personal sexual images or text messages via mobile phones or internet applications, including Facebook, Snapchat, and email. Challenging the idea that sexting inevitably victimizes young women, it argues for recognizing young people's capacity for choice and encourages rethinking the assumption that everything digital is public. The book critiques typical responses to sexting and argues that protecting teens, and girls in particular, from malicious peers and overzealous prosecutors may require recognizing the girls' sexual agency and choices when they sext consensually. The book analyzes the debates about sexting while recommending realistic and nuanced responses.

Mobile phone use in intimate relationships: The case of youth in Botswana

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
William O Lesitaokana
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Emotional Intimacy ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Voice Calls

Drawing upon qualitative research data of a study I carried out in Gaborone and Francistown, this article attempts to demonstrate that the mobile phone is ubiquitous and cultural technology which has become central to young people’s intimate relationships. In particular, the use of mobile phones in romantic relationships among urban youth in Botswana is evinced in two ways, both of which are clearly local and distinct. First, the mobile phone is useful to facilitate emotional intimacy through voice calls, text messages and social networking, thus serving as a substantial link between intimate partners. Second, through its cost value, the mobile phone is recognised as a perfect gift to express practical intimacy in romantic relationships. This study therefore suggests that, in the way it is used, the mobile phone influences youth to create or recreate mobile cultures, which are to some extent predicated on their traditional lifestyles.

Correlating Personality and Actual Phone Usage

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Montag ◽  
Konrad Błaszkiewicz ◽  
Bernd Lachmann ◽  
Ionut Andone ◽  
Rayna Sariyska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
Voice Calls

In the present study we link self-report-data on personality to behavior recorded on the mobile phone. This new approach from Psychoinformatics collects data from humans in everyday life. It demonstrates the fruitful collaboration between psychology and computer science, combining Big Data with psychological variables. Given the large number of variables, which can be tracked on a smartphone, the present study focuses on the traditional features of mobile phones – namely incoming and outgoing calls and SMS. We observed N = 49 participants with respect to the telephone/SMS usage via our custom developed mobile phone app for 5 weeks. Extraversion was positively associated with nearly all related telephone call variables. In particular, Extraverts directly reach out to their social network via voice calls.

Talking, Reading, and Writing on Smartphones

2020 ◽  
pp. 407-422
Author(s):  
Naomi S. Baron
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Internet Protocols ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Voice Calls ◽  
News Headlines ◽  
Communication Preference

Mobile phones have increasingly been transformed from speaking technologies to devices for reading and writing. Cost helped drive this shift since written short messages were historically less expensive than voice calls. A second factor was communication preference for texting over talking, especially among younger users. With ready Internet access on smartphones, reading habits began shifting as well. Social networking messages, along with other short texts such as weather reports or news headlines, made for obvious reading material, as did the plethora of longer written documents available online. The e-book revolution enabled readers to retrieve entire books on their phones. Mobile phones are also writing platforms. Developments in hardware and software dramatically simplified the input process. Instead of multi-taps, users now rely on virtual keyboards for easy access not only to alphanumeric characters and punctuation marks but also to sophisticated predictive texting and autocorrection. Interestingly, while technically we are writing when inputting text on smartphones, many users do not perceive such input as real “writing”—a term they reserve for writing by hand or with a computer. Additional writing issues include norms regarding so-called textisms, along with the role of culture in shaping attitudes regarding linguistic correctness. Many organizations are discontinuing voicemail systems in favor of written messaging. At the same time, voice over Internet protocols continue to grow, and small voice-activated social robots designed for home use are proliferating. The chapter closes by asking what the spoken–written balance on smartphones might look like in the future.

scholarly journals Improving Retention in Care and Promoting Adherence to HIV Treatment: Protocol for a Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial of Mobile Phone Text Messaging (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvis Asangbeng Tanue ◽  
Dickson Shey Nsagha ◽  
Nana Njamen Theophile ◽  
Jules Clement Nguedia Assob
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Retention In Care ◽  
Hiv Treatment ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Adherence To Treatment ◽  
Randomized Controlled

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization has prioritized the use of new technologies to assist in health care delivery in resource-limited settings. Findings suggest that the use of SMS on mobile phones is an advantageous application in health care delivery, especially in communities with an increasing use of this device. OBJECTIVE The main aim of this trial is to assess whether sending weekly motivational text messages (SMS) through mobile phones versus no text messaging will improve retention in care and promote adherence to treatment and health outcomes among patients receiving HIV treatment in Fako Division of Cameroon. METHODS This is a multisite randomized controlled single-blinded trial. Computer-generated random block sizes shall be used to produce a randomization list. Participants shall be randomly allocated into the intervention and control groups determined by serially numbered sealed opaque envelopes. The 156 participants will either receive the mobile phone text message or usual standard of care. We hypothesize that sending weekly motivational SMS reminders will produce a change in behavior to enhance retention; treatment adherence; and, hence, health outcomes. Participants shall be evaluated and data collected at baseline and then at 2, 4, and 6 months after the launch of the intervention. Text messages shall be sent out, and the delivery will be recorded. Primary outcome measures are retention in care and adherence to treatment. Secondary outcomes are clinical (weight, body mass index), biological (virologic suppression, tuberculosis coinfection), quality of life, treatment discontinuation, and mortality. The analysis shall be by intention-to-treat. Analysis of covariates shall be performed to determine factors influencing outcomes. RESULTS Recruitment and random allocation are complete; 160 participants were allocated into 3 groups (52 in the single SMS, 55 in the double SMS, and 53 in the control). Data collection and analysis are ongoing, and statistical results will be available by the end of August 2019. CONCLUSIONS The interventions will contribute to an improved understanding of which intervention types can be feasible in improving retention in care and promoting adherence to antiretroviral therapy. CLINICALTRIAL Pan African Clinical Trial Registry in South Africa PACTR201802003035922; https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=3035 INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT DERR1-10.2196/15680

scholarly journals Family E-Chat Group Use Was Associated with Family Wellbeing and Personal Happiness in Hong Kong Adults Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (17) ◽  
pp. 9139
Author(s):  
Wei-Jie Gong ◽  
Bonny Yee-Man Wong ◽  
Sai-Yin Ho ◽  
Agnes Yuen-Kwan Lai ◽  
Sheng-Zhi Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Older People ◽  
Family Communication ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Communication Quality ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Voice Calls ◽  
Family Wellbeing

Instant messaging (IM) is increasingly used for family communication amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. However, evidence remains scarce on how family e-chat groups were used and their associations with family and individual wellbeing amidst the pandemic. The numbers of family e-chat groups, functions used, and messages sent and received daily in groups were reported by 4890 adults in May 2020, and their associations with family wellbeing and personal happiness and the mediation effect of family communication quality were examined. Results showed that sending/receiving text messages was most commonly used, followed by receiving/sending photos/pictures, making voice calls, receiving/sending short videos and voice messages, and making video calls. Women and older people used more non-text functions. Higher levels of family wellbeing and personal happiness were associated with having more groups, receiving/sending photos/pictures, video calls, more IM functions used, and more IM messages received/sent daily. Forty-six point two to seventy-five point five percent of their associations with more groups and more functions used were mediated by family communication quality. People having more family e-chat groups and using more IM functions may be more resilient amidst the pandemic, while those without or with low use of family e-chat groups amidst the pandemic would need more attention and assistance in the presence of social distancing.

Akuisisi Bukti Digital Viber Messenger Android Menggunakan Metode National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Imam Riadi ◽  
Rusydi Umar ◽  
Muhammad Irwan Syahib
Keyword(s):  
Extraction Process ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Digital Evidence ◽  
Digital Forensic ◽  
Digital Crime ◽  
The World ◽  
Instant Messenger ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Forensic Tools ◽  
Voice Calls

Viber is one of the most popular social media in the Instant Messenger application category that can be used to send text messages, make voice calls, send picture messages and video messages to other users. As many as 260 million people around the world have used this application. Increasing the number of viber users certainly brings positive and negative impacts, one of the negative impacts of this application is the use of digital forensic crime. This research simulates and removes digital crime evidence from the viber application on Android smartphones using the National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST) method, which is a method that has work guidelines on forensic policy and process standards to ensure each investigator follows the workflow the same so that their work is documented and the results can be accounted for. This study uses three forensic tools, MOBILedit Forensic Express, Belkasoft and Autopsy. The results in this study show that MOBILedit Forensic Express gets digital evidence with a percentage of 100% in getting accounts, contacts, pictures and videos. While proof of digital chat is only 50%. Belkasoft gets digital evidence with a percentage of 100% in getting accounts, contacts, pictures and videos. While proof of digital chat is only 50%. For Autopsy does not give the expected results in the extraction process, in other words the Autopsy application gives zero results. It can be concluded that MOBILedit Forensic Express and Belkasoft have a good performance compared to Autopsy and thus this research has been completed and succeeded in accordance with the expected goals.

The Trend of Mobile Malwares and Effective Detection Techniques

2019 ◽  
pp. 668-682
Author(s):  
Olawale Surajudeen Adebayo ◽  
Normaziah Abdul Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Mobile Platform ◽  
Desktop Computer ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Mobile Malware ◽  
Windows Phone

The usefulness of mobile phones nowadays has gone beyond making calls and sending text messages. In fact, most of applications available on desktop computer are presently easily accessible on mobile devices, especially smartphone based on Androids, iOS, and Windows phone platforms. However, at the same time, malware is increasingly becoming pervasive on a mobile platform for financial, social and political exploitation. This chapter examines the trends of mobile malware and different efforts of anti-malware writers and researchers in addressing mobile malware on smartphones.

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