Mobile Media, Mobile Texts

2012 ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Adami
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Copy And Paste

By examining contemporary changes in the mechanisms and practices of representation and communication, this paper focuses on the copy-and-paste affordance fostered by mobile technologies and digital technologies at large. Its widespread use is affecting radically (1) the acceptability standards of (in)coherent patterns of text production, and (2) the criteria defining successful communication, which coherent cooperation to a mutual understanding is sometimes less relevant than the transformation and reinterpretation of texts according to the sign-maker’s interests in participating to multiple communicative networks. In this light, by pinpointing the abilities required and developed in the use of mobile technologies, the paper hypothesizes possible paths for teaching in such a changed semiotic landscape.

Mobile Media, Mobile Texts

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Adami
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Copy And Paste

By examining contemporary changes in the mechanisms and practices of representation and communication, this paper focuses on the copy-and-paste affordance fostered by mobile technologies and digital technologies at large. Its widespread use is affecting radically (1) the acceptability standards of (in)coherent patterns of text production, and (2) the criteria defining successful communication, which coherent cooperation to a mutual understanding is sometimes less relevant than the transformation and reinterpretation of texts according to the sign-maker’s interests in participating to multiple communicative networks. In this light, by pinpointing the abilities required and developed in the use of mobile technologies, the paper hypothesizes possible paths for teaching in such a changed semiotic landscape.

scholarly journals Impact of Digital Technologies on Business Performance in Serbia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernad Kahrović ◽  
Atif Avdović
Keyword(s):  
Business Performance ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
General Information ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Ordinal Scale ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
The Impact

Research Question: The main goal of the study was to investigate the degree to which Serbian businesses accept and use digital technologies as part of the digital business transformation process. Motivation: The main aim was to research the specific determinants of the digital economy, digital technology and digital business transformation. Through an empirical analysis, digital technologies were classified as primary and secondary and the motive was to examine whether digital technologies affect revenue growth, productivity improvement, increase in market share, customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction, reduction in operating costs, development and use of digital products, digital market expansion and digital platform development. Idea: The main idea behind the study was to determine to what extent the said technologies are employed in Serbian businesses, as well as to develop a model of the impact of digital technologies on business performance, which may serve as a basis for further research. Data: The research was conducted from October 2020 to March 2021. A questionnaire was sent to over 500 email addresses of Serbian companies, and 98 questionnaires were filled in and duly returned. We displayed the most important characteristics of our sample and that way pointed out its randomness and representativeness and explained the choice of data analytics methods we use. Tools: The research instrument was a questionnaire including the general information (Part I). Part II included the question regarding the primary and secondary digital technologies used in their daily business activities. In Part III, the participants were required to state the specific outcomes their company expects to obtain as a result of digital business transformation. Findings: Mobile technologies, social networks and cloud computing were found to be dominantly employed technologies by the Serbian businesses from the sample. In percentage terms, the second class of disruptive technologies was shown to be insignificantly present in the Serbian companies. Finally, it appears that the role and importance of robotics and artificial intelligence have started to be recognised on the business scene. There is a significant impact of digital technologies on business performances, and we also give correlations between specific digital technologies and business performances, and intensity and statistical significance of impact in each case. We have also determined that some significant technologies make a latent, indirect impact on performances and shown the way that occurs. The analysis is performed after standardizing the ordinal scale values of variables making the results more accurate. Contribution: The paper provides the state of affairs regarding digital technologies use by Serbian businesses, as well as that of digital business transformation.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Germaine R. Halegoua
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Digital City ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Cautionary Tales

This chapter provides an overview of the territory and arguments that The Digital City explores. In recent work on digital and mobile media technologies, scholarly perspectives have broadened to recognize positive associations between digital media and experiences of place. Humans and machines are no longer readily perceived as mutually exclusive categories, nor are they treated as separate considerations for designers of everyday experience. People work with technologies to move through and experience places. This book aims to illustrate and analyze the ways actors are actually using digital technologies and practices to re-embed themselves within urban space and to create a sense of place for themselves and others. Although there are copious cautionary tales around the potential for digital media to dissociate or liberate us from the confines of physical locations, we’ve lacked careful attention to the ways people actually use digital media to become placemakers. Creating and controlling a sense of place is still the primary way that we connect with our environments, interact with others, and express our identities. The Digital City offers a new theoretical framework for thinking about our relationship to digital media by reconceptualizing common, everyday interactions with digital media as placemaking activities.

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.

A generation of bricoleurs: digital entrepreneurship in Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-412
Author(s):  
Jenna Grzeslo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Youth Entrepreneurship ◽  
Digital Entrepreneurship

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore how the uptake of digital technologies influences youth entrepreneurship in Kenya.Design/methodology/approachThis study utilizes 28 semi-structured interviews with entrepreneurs age 21–35 in Nairobi, Kenya. Interview transcripts were analyzed using open- and closed-coding.FindingsMillennial entrepreneurs embrace change and challenges by harnessing mobile technologies and social media. In doing so, they are engaging in what French sociologist Lévi-Strauss called “bricolage,” or “making do with what's at hand.”Originality/valueThis study explores a unique segment of entrepreneurs, Millennials in Kenya and identified the ways in which digital entrepreneurship represents a form of bricolage.

Capturing community in mobility: Mobile methods for community informatics

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiawei Chen ◽  
Benjamin V. Hanrahan ◽  
Chien Wen (Tina) Yuan ◽  
John M. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Community Informatics ◽  
Community Interactions ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Target Behaviors

The field of community informatics focuses on how information and communication technology can contribute to the development and sustainability of local communities. The ubiquity of mobile technologies, coupled with their affordances of connecting people and accessing information anytime, anywhere, brings new opportunities for community informatics research. These same affordances also entrain new methodological challenges in capturing and understanding mobile technology use, as mobile-supported interactions can be difficult to study systematically. Such interactions are often situated in complex social and physical settings, such as the local community context. In response to these challenges, we describe the method for scripting events that participants enact within their community and through which we probe how mobile technology impacts community building and vice versa. With the scripted method, we emphasize the need to integrate multiple streams of data and analyses to triangulate and obtain a holistic picture of community interactions. This scripted method is designed to afford ecological validity in employing socially and behaviorally realistic activities, while maintaining some research control, in providing a standard scaffold for participants to enact target behaviors. We discuss how our method could be leveraged in other mobile media communication studies involved in complex social and physical contexts.

Digital Support for Adaptation of Foreign Trainers within the Framework of the Project «BUDDYSYSTEM»: Case of the Ural Federal University Named after First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-66
Author(s):  
М. Каримов ◽  
M. Karimov ◽  
А. Рустамов ◽  
A. Rustamov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
It Support ◽  
Internet Support

The problem of adaptation of foreign students to the Russian educational environment is becoming increasingly important due to the increase in the number of foreign students in higher education institutions of Russia. The Internet support of the adaptation system on the basis of specially created for it support systems — “buddysystems” — begins particular importance in this process. The article describes the author’s system of work with newly arriving students, undergraduates, graduate students for their comprehensive adaptation at the Ural Federal University named after the fi rst President of Russia B. N.Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation. One of the key elements is the using of digital technologies for successful communication with foreign students. Analysis of the project “BUDDYSYSTEMURFU” shows its multiplicativity and the possibility of implementation in the universities of the country.

scholarly journals How Packaging of Information in Conversation Is Impacted by Communication Medium and Restrictions

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Bibyk ◽  
Leslie M. Blaha ◽  
Christopher W. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Communication Medium ◽  
Team Coordination ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Way

In team-based tasks, successful communication and mutual understanding are essential to facilitate team coordination and performance. It is well-established that an important component of human conversation (whether in speech, text, or any medium) is the maintenance of common ground. Maintaining common ground has a number of associated processes in which conversational participants engage. Many of these processes are lacking in current synthetic teammates, and it is unknown to what extent this lack of capabilities affects their ability to contribute during team-based tasks. We focused our research on how teams package information within a conversation, by which we mean specifically (1) whether information is explicitly mentioned or implied, and (2) how multiple pieces of information are ordered both within single communications and across multiple communications. We re-analyzed data collected from a simulated remotely-piloted aerial system (RPAS) task in which team members had to specify speed, altitude, and radius restrictions. The data came from three experiments: the “speech” experiment, the “text” experiment, and the “evaluation” experiment (which had a condition that included a synthetic teammate). We asked first whether teams settled on a specific routine for communicating the speed, altitude, and radius restrictions, and whether this process was different if the teams communicated in speech compared to text. We then asked how receiving special communication instructions in the evaluation experiment impacted the way the human teammates package information. We found that teams communicating in either speech or text tended to use a particular order for mentioning the speed, altitude, and radius. Different teams also chose different orders from one another. The teams in the evaluation experiment, however, showed unnaturally little variability in their information ordering and were also more likely to explicitly mention all restrictions even when they did not apply. Teams in the speech and text experiments were more likely to leave unnecessary restrictions unmentioned, and were also more likely to convey the restrictions across multiple communications. The option to converge on different packaging routines may have contributed to improved performance in the text experiment compared some of the conditions in the evaluation experiment.

scholarly journals Daugiaterpiškumo kolizija medijose: technologinės raidos aspektas

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 74-87
Author(s):  
Žygintas Pečiulis
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
New Device ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Transformation Processes

Daugiaterpiškumas, multimedijiškumas, įvairių raiškų susiliejimas – esminis šiandienos ir rytdienos medijų bruožas. Tai dažniausiai laikoma specifine skaitmeninės eros ypatybe, tačiau žvilgsnis į istorinę komunikacijos technologijų raidą atskleidžia tam tikrą senųjų medijų suformuotų charakteristikų pasikartojimą naujosiose medijose. Nuo tapybos, kinematografo, televizijos iki kompiuterio tęsiasi ekrano tradicija. Skaitmeninėse technologijose išsaugomas klasikinis spaudos puslapis, stiprėja rašto pozicijos, derinami naratyvo ir duomenų bazės principai. Konstruojant skaitmeninius kūrinius grįžtama prie ciklo, būdingo dar XIX a. medijoms, kompiuteris ir mobiliosios technologijos formuoja skaitmeninį dendį, tęsiantį Ch. Baudelaire’o prieš pusantro šimto metų aprašytą anonimišką stebėtoją – bastūną. Kintant ir tobulėjant technologijoms, nuolat vyko sudėtingi adaptavimosi, transformacijos procesai. Viena medija tarsi išnirdavo iš kitos, kiekvienas naujas prietaisas ar technologija sustiprindavo tam tikrą raišką, slopindama kitą. Skaitmeninė era suteikia įvairialypės raiškos galimybes, grįžtama prie žmonijos ištakų, ikimedijinės komunikacijos – visaverčio žmogaus bendravimo su žmogumi.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: medijų istorija, daugiaterpiškumas, daugialypė raiška, šiuolaikinės medijos.Multienvironmental Collision in Medias: The Technological Development AspectŽygintas Pečiulis SummaryContemporary and future medias can be characterised as multienvironmental, multimedia and of various expressions. It is usually considered to be characteristic of the digital era; however, a glance on the historical development of communication technologies reveals a certain repetition of characteristics of old medias in new medias. The tradition develops from painting, cinematography, television to computer screen. Digital technologies preserve the classical printed page, strengthen writing positions and combine narrative and data base principles. While developing digital works, the media cycle prominent in the 19th century is applied. Computers and mobile technologies form a digital dandy continuing with an anonymous observer described by Ch. Baudelaire more than a century ago. Changes and improvements in technologies provoked constant adjustment and transformation processes. One media as if emerged from another. Every new device or technology strengthened certain expression by suppressing the other. The digital age provides with versatile expression possibilities. Thus, the rise of humankind and pre-media communication or versatile communication among men is highlighted as well.

scholarly journals Reflexões e percepções sobre a mobilidade e ubiquidade das tecnologias digitais em um contexto caótico

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-413
Author(s):  
Victor Ferreira Ragoni
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
New Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Context ◽  
New Challenges

Resumo: Diante do atual contexto em que o mundo se encontra, de caos, de isolamento social e de relações pessoais modificadas abruptamente, a educação foi alterada praticamente de um dia para o outro. O objetivo deste trabalho é refletir sobre as possibilidades que as tecnologias digitais móveis trazem para a educação em tempos de pandemia e isolamento. Assim, as tecnologias podem influenciar diretamente no cenário educacional, minimizando efeitos da pandemia para que a educação não pare completamente, para que alunos não fiquem um ano sem escolarização e para que não haja atrasos em calendários. Novos desafios são postos: professores precisam informar-se e formar-se nas tecnologias digitais móveis, alunos precisam se adaptar aos novos estilos de aprendizagem, assim como pais e responsáveis agora possuem mais encargos na educação dos filhos. Todas as esferas da sociedade foram afetadas, no entanto é preciso que tiremos algo disso tudo: novas possibilidades de interação, ensino e aprendizagem.Palavras-chave: Ensino Remoto; Tecnologias; Pandemia; Educação. Reflections and percpetions on mobility and ubiquity of digital technologies in chaotic contextAbstract: Given the current context in which the world finds itself, in a chaos, social isolation and personal relationships abruptly modified in an education was practically changed overnight. The objective of this work is to reflect on the possibilities that digital mobile technologies bring to education in times of pandemic and isolation. Thus, as technologies can directly influence the educational scenario, minimizing pandemic effects so that education does not stop completely, so that students do not go a year without schooling and so that there are no delays in calendars. New challenges are posed: teachers need to be informed and educated about mobile digital technologies, students need to adapt to new learning styles, parents and guardians now have more responsibilities in raising their children. All spheres of society were affected, but we need to get something out of it all: new possibilities for interaction, teaching and learning.Keywords: Remote Teaching; Technologies; Pandemic; Education. 

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