Mobile Phone Beeping

2015 ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
Rotimi Taiwo ◽  
Ebuka Igwebuike
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reduction Strategy ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Uses

Beeping (also known as “flashing”, “missed call” or “buzzing”) is a behavior associated with mobile phone users, typically in the developing world. It is a behavior that involves a user dialing the number of another user, allowing the phone to ring a few times, but quickly canceling the call before the other person can answer. Despite being a common and established mobile phone human practice, beeping has not received adequate attention from scholars as some other behaviors associated with digital technologies, such as cyberbullying, mobile phone addiction, sexting, phone-sharing, and usage while driving. This article, therefore, offers a historical and analytical overview of existing research on the use of a beeping system as a cost-reduction strategy opposed to SMS/text messaging. It provides a solid empirical basis for an informed discussion of the social uses and social effects of the practice of beeping in no-cost communication, especially in developing countries.

Digital platforms aren’t mere tools —they’re complex environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (6) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Antero Garcia ◽  
T. Philip Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Educational Stakeholders ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Social Uses

Antero Garcia and T. Philip Nichols explore how classrooms and schools must reframe their conceptions of technology from a focus on tools that serve specific purposes to a focus on platforms and their ecologies. In doing so, they argue, educational stakeholders should attend to three different dimensions of how technology is integrated in schools: the social uses of digital technologies, the design decisions that were made about these products, and the material resources that help make them operate. This approach requires educators to ask complicated questions about what technology does in schools and how to teach with and about it.

The Networked Effect of Children and Online Digital Technologies

2018 ◽  
pp. 7312-7326
Author(s):  
Teresa Sofia Pereira Dias de Castro ◽  
António Osório ◽  
Emma Bond
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Construction Of Technology ◽  
Social Shaping Of Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Social Shaping

Within the scope of how technology impacts on society three theoretical models: the social shaping of technology (SST), social construction of technology (SCOT) and the Actor-Network theory (ANT) are frameworks that help rethink the embeddedness of technology within society, once each is transformed and transformative of the other. More attention will be given to the ANT approach since it solves the technology/society dualisms unresolved by the previous proposals. This is a flexible epistemological possibility that can reach the ambiguity of contemporary life and the remarkable transformations brought by progress that have changed drastically childhood and children's contemporary lives.

scholarly journals The Other Side of Taxation: Extraction and Social Institutions in the Developing World

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Lust ◽  
Lise Rakner
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Resource Mobilization ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fiscal Sociology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
State Taxation

The fiscal sociology literature views the state at the heart of development, but in most developing countries, formal taxation is limited. Instead, local residents make substantial contributions outside the state to the provision of public goods. That is, they engage in what we call social extraction rather than state taxation. This article conceptualizes social extraction and the social institutions that drive extraction. Furthermore, it considers variations in the content of social institutions, and it proposes research agendas that allow us to understand how social institutions impact resource mobilization and development at the community level. It draws lessons from a large, cross-disciplinary literature that includes work in anthropology, sociology, economics, psychology, and political science.

The Networked Effect of Children and Online Digital Technologies

2019 ◽  
pp. 505-522
Author(s):  
Teresa Sofia Pereira Dias de Castro ◽  
António Osório ◽  
Emma Bond
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Construction Of Technology ◽  
Social Shaping Of Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Social Shaping

Within the scope of how technology impacts society, three theoretical models—the social shaping of technology (SST), social construction of technology (SCOT), and the actor-network theory (ANT)—are frameworks that help rethink the embeddedness of technology within society, once each is transformed and transformative of the other. More attention will be given to the ANT approach since it solves the technology/society dualisms unresolved by the previous proposals. This is a flexible epistemological possibility that can reach the ambiguity of contemporary life and the remarkable transformations brought by progress that have drastically changed childhood and children's contemporary lives.

Connecting 'Round the Clock: Mobile Phones and Adolescents' Experiences of Intimacy

2015 ◽  
pp. 937-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Weinstein ◽  
Katie Davis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Social Connection ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Geographic Barriers ◽  
Socially Isolated

Mobile phone ownership is approaching ubiquity among contemporary adolescents and smartphone adoption continues to rise, affording unprecedented opportunities for social connection. Adolescents connect via text messaging and social media apps to sustain communication – often throughout their waking hours – with offline ties. Through both casual exchanges and intimate self-disclosure, adolescents reinforce and develop offline friendships and romantic relationships. Youth marginalized or socially isolated offline can also transcend geographic barriers and connect with new communities. However, digital technologies pose challenges to achieving intimate connections and online expression can complicate or even threaten offline relationships.

scholarly journals Urban controversies and the making of the social

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albena Yaneva ◽  
Liam Heaphy
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Architectural Knowledge ◽  
Radical Transformation ◽  
Internet Databases

On the one hand, architectural knowledge advances very rapidly, with new types of materials and technological innovations entering the field and multiplying architectural invention. On the other hand, urban experts, architects and engineers often debate publicly uncertain urban knowledge and technologies, risky plans and daring designs, polarising opinion - as witnessed on numerous blogs, citizen forums and architecture websites. This radical transformation in building technologies, in the reliance upon experts and in the expansion of architectural networks could have remained practically invisible were it not for the presence of another phenomenon: the digitalisation of architecture and the availability of enormous Internet databases. The digital technologies at our command provide us with abundant resources to follow architectural controversies.

Sustainable Development and Global Governance

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive George
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Commons ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
The Social

The difficulties of achieving sustainable development reflect several internal tensions in the three-pillar approach: The adoption of economic development as a separate pillar from social development challenges the view that the purpose of one is to achieve the other; economic valuation of the environment removes the distinction between environmental and economic goals; and no distinction is drawn between the development of developing countries and the development of developed ones. These tensions are shown to be symptomatic of difficult issues being avoided. A closer examination revives doubts about whether the conservation of the global commons and the development of developing countries can both be achieved without major changes in economic structures and governance systems, nationally as well as globally. It is concluded that the development of more appropriate systems requires imaginative research in every discipline of the social sciences, with a vital role for cooperation between American and Chinese institutions.

An Overview of the effectiveness of mhealth technology in the Developing Countries (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nawaf Khan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Short Messaging Service ◽  
Mobile Phone Applications

BACKGROUND The healthcare system in most of the developing countries has been struggling to provide high-quality services. This limitation has negatively affected the performance and safety of healthcare personnel, as well as patients’ satisfaction. OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of the current knowledge of integrating human factors/ergonomics technology to improve healthcare service delivery in developing nations METHODS The authors reviewed the current literature focusing on mhealth interventions in developing countries. This review included the integration of mobile phone applications as well as Short Messaging Service (SMS). RESULTS Previous research on the integration of mhealth in developing countries focused on the use of mobile phone applications and SMS text messaging. However, the effectiveness of such programs has not to be reported in most of these studies. CONCLUSIONS Although little research was found in the implementation of mhealth technologies such as the Short Messaging Service (SMS) to improve healthcare service delivery in the developing nations, the effectiveness of such programs has not been reported. Therefore, future research should focus on evaluating the outcomes of mhealth interventions to ensure that patients in developing countries have access to high-quality healthcare services.

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