Mobile Media and the Change of Everyday Life

2010 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Media

Mobile Art

2020 ◽  
pp. 369-391
Author(s):  
Larissa Hjorth
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Cindy Sherman ◽  
Media Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter surveys the multiple ways in which mobile media art has been defined by outlining some of the ways in which the field has been defined as it moves from media arts and hybrid reality to a more holistic contemporary art practice. It is then considered how mobile art is heralding ways in which to rethink the relationship between the quotidian, the social, and the politics of data. Finally, the chapter reflects on movements by artists (such as Cindy Sherman) to social mobile media as a site for critique and questioning of contemporary culture and everyday life.

scholarly journals Digital work and play: Mobile technologies and new ways of feeling at home

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Pink ◽  
Larissa Hjorth ◽  
Heather Horst ◽  
Josh Nettheim ◽  
Genevieve Bell
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Digital Work ◽  
Middle Class Families ◽  
Affective Dimensions ◽  
Feeling At Home ◽  
At Home

In this article, we advance current discussions by bringing together debates about digital play and digital labour. We consider everyday life entanglements of mobile media and digital work and play at home. To develop this argument, we analyse the embodied and affective dimensions of mundane everyday life at home with digital media through the concepts of atmosphere and ambient play. We argue that attention to how digital play is implicated in the constitution of texture and feeling of the everyday needs to underpin our understanding of how mobile media are participating in shifts in everyday experiences of work and home. In doing so, we draw on ethnographic research undertaken with middle-class families in Melbourne, Australia.

scholarly journals THE IN(TER)DEPENDENCIES OF MOBILE ONLINE AND OFFLINE SPACES: REFLECTIONS ON METHODS, PRACTICES, ETHICS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Kaufmann ◽  
Monika Palmberger ◽  
Carolina Parreiras ◽  
Arianna Bussoletti ◽  
Francesca Belotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Practical Implications

Mobile media technologies place users in digital (online) as well as physical (offline) spaces in novel ways, opening up new environments of affordances. In everyday life these mobile online and offline spaces are increasingly interdependent and interwoven in manifold ways. Practices, experiences, meanings and expectations are negotiated across these spaces, while at the same time they are bound by the respective logics and limitations, leading to new interrelations and contradictions. The mobile, interlocking but non-converging nature of these spaces involves issues of access and power in struggles over in(ter)dependencies and leads to significant method(odolog)ical, practical and ethical challenges for researchers, to which the current COVID-19 pandemic only adds complexity. Researchers are confronted with questions such as: What are appropriate designs to study mobile online and offline spaces and their intersections? Do interdependent spaces call for likewise interdependent methodological approaches? In what ways can elaborated mixed and multi-method designs capture complexity adequately without the researchers losing sight of the specifics? And what are the ethical and practical implications for the parties involved? Meanwhile, in the methodological literature, the specific challenges associated with researching the intersections of online and offline spaces, especially under mobile conditions, are rarely explicitly addressed. For this reason, the panel presents a thought-provoking range of five examples of research into phenomena at the intersections of mobile online and offline spaces and the associated experiences as well as methodological challenges of researchers in dealing with issues of in(ter)dependence at all levels.

Theories on the Adoption and Appropriation of Mobile Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-41
Author(s):  
Veronika Karnowski
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Individual

This chapter reviews key theories on the adoption and appropriation of mobile media. It highlights the differences between the binary adoption concept and the concept of appropriation, focusing on everyday life integration, by contrasting the benefits and drawbacks of both concepts. In a second step key factors influencing the adoption and appropriation of mobile media both on a societal macro level and the individual micro level are discussed based on recent empirical evidence. Especially mobile media, consisting of clusters of embedded innovations, pose theoretical and methodological challenges to researching adoption and appropriation processes. This chapter introduces current attempts to overcome these issues and outlines possible avenues for future theorizing of the adoption and appropriation of mobile media.

scholarly journals Media use in changing everyday life: How biographical disruption could destabilize media repertoires and public connection

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 488-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brita Ytre-Arne
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Biographical Disruption ◽  
Cross Media ◽  
Smartphone Use ◽  
Media Repertoires ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article analyses how changing life situations affect media use, conceptualized as a question of how biographical disruption could destabilize media repertoires and public connection. To answer this question, the analysis draws on qualitative data from a comprehensive study of media use in Norway, with in-depth interviews and media diaries. The theoretical approach joins domestication and media repertoire theory with research on public connection, considering the ubiquity of digital media in contemporary society. Findings indicate that smartphone use is key to people’s reorientations in periods of change, and that intimate and emotional responses to mobile media warrant closer attention. The article contributes to debates on the transformation of media repertoires, a question of growing concern within research on cross-media use, and to long-standing interests in the role of media in everyday life and as central to public connection.

Glocal intimacies and the contradictions of mobile media access in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2098596
Author(s):  
Cecilia S Uy-Tioco ◽  
Jason Vincent A Cabañes
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Global Modernity

This article looks at mobile media access in the Philippines and the kind of social intimacies that have emerged from it. To frame our discussion, we use the concept of ‘glocal intimacies’. This pertains to how mobile technologies have normalised and intensified the entanglement of people’s relationships of closeness with the ever-shifting and constantly negotiated flows between global modernity and local everyday life. We show that the uneven access that Filipinos have has led to equally uneven ways in which they imagine and enact intimate relationships. Drawing on case studies emblematic of the country’s key income clusters, we point out the emergence of a contradictory situation, wherein those with relatively high-quality access are those who are least dependent on mobile media for their glocal intimacies. Meanwhile, those with relatively low-quality access are those who are actually most dependent on mobile-mediated communication for such intimacies.

Mobile media and communication in everyday life: Milestones and challenges

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Linke
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Media And Communication

The article contributes conceptual ideas to the multi- and interdisciplinary forum for research on social aspects of Mobile Media & Communication. Starting with everyday observations, a review of selected milestones regarding matters of space and presence, sociality and emotion and on multiple dialectics is offered to demonstrate the significant and complex interrelations in the field of mobile communication in everyday life. Finally, it is argued that the challenge of non-deterministic and sustainable research approaches has to be met in order to deepen and broaden future research and contribute to an understanding of mobile media and communication.

scholarly journals Flashmobs as Performance and the Re-emergence of Creative Communities

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-27
Author(s):  
Aristita Ioana Albacan
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Western World ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

ABSTRACT In spite of their very brief history - the first modern flashmob took place at Macy's in NY, on the evening of 17th of June 2003 - flashmobs have rapidly spread throughout the Western world, developing in recent years into a particularly novel mode of performance that stimulates the re-emergence - even if temporary and fleeting - of creative communities, whilst responding to a range of topics of societal currency: political, cultural, artistic, everyday life etc. Flashmobs become visible within the public sphere via short, exciting performative acts perceived as playful and liberating. In processual terms, flashmobs as performances pertaining to a globalized, neo-liberal cultural economy, hybridize conventions and practices from live, online, and mobile media in novel, unprecedented ways.

The Gamification of Mobile Communication among Young Smartphone Users in Seoul

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 60-78
Author(s):  
Kyong Yoon ◽  
Dal Yong Jin
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Mobile Games ◽  
Mobile Gaming ◽  
Communication Practices

Drawing on the empirical findings, the present study discusses how mobile media and gaming practices are integrated with young people’s everyday lives in Seoul, Korea. In particular, the present study aims to critically examine mobile gaming as a social practice, by adopting the notion of “gamification”. The study has found that users coped with urban everyday life by appropriating mobile apps and thus engaging with the gamification of mobile communication. Various mobile games have become popular add-ons on smartphones and offered casual involvement in gaming in daily moments such as commuting, waiting, and eating times. Gamified communication practices may imply that smartphone-mediated communication redefines our world as the gameful world while urban space and agency constantly engage with gameplay. However, the seemingly gameful world that may empower certain casual gamers may conceal the hegemonic process in which mobile gamers are subject to existing power relations.

Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

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