scholarly journals Zeitgeist

M/C Journal ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Public Display ◽  
Avian Flu ◽  
Social Challenge ◽  
Personal Vulnerability ◽  
The Times

Zeitgeist, a cycle of digital collages, of images within images, references the visibility and invisibility of communication via the personalized icons of the hand phone and dust mask. The mobile phone affirms and denies what is immediately present before us. It carries images and sounds customized to represent individual callers, however remote. We believe that they offer protection and lessen fear, especially fear of another’s aggression, address, glance or absence. Their capabilities provoke meditation on degrees of immanence through an amalgamation of personal and public space. When speaking on a hand phone, one typically looks down, withdrawing from the immediate environment. The proximate withdraws from consciousness as the distant approaches, as in any telecommunication, but now this creation and collapsing of relations is on public display. Infected with the promise of greater and ubiquitous intimacy and exchange, we remain insecure hosts. Dust masks, common on the spring streets of Seoul, are social shells that conceal and reveal collective contamination and individual sacrifice. They isolate and bind and make anonymous. Often they are borne by the sick (hosts, again) so as not to spread disease. But they are also worn by protesters to preserve anonymity and for protection from dispersing fumes. Indicative of social challenge, personal vulnerability or pandemic infection (especially in the case of Avian Flu), the mask is permeated by fear floating freely between peoples, countries, and continents. Floating in the air — microbes, infections, apparitions, voices beyond. The cell phone, with all its messages, texts and images, signals the spirit of the times, a zeitgeist of promise — instilling the need for constant connection, paradoxically breeding dependency amidst isolation. Citation reference for this article MLA Style Johnson, Andrew. "Zeitgeist." M/C Journal 10.1 (2007). echo date('d M. Y'); ?> <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0703/12-johnson.php>. APA Style Johnson, A. (Mar. 2007) "Zeitgeist," M/C Journal, 10(1). Retrieved echo date('d M. Y'); ?> from <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0703/12-johnson.php>.

Mobile Phone Craving And Problem Use In The Spanish Population: Analysis Of An Internet-Based Survey (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose De-Sola ◽  
Gabriel Rubio ◽  
Hernan Talledo ◽  
Carmen Jaudenes ◽  
Andrea DÁgostino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Population Analysis ◽  
Spanish Population ◽  
Behavioral Disorder ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Autonomous Communities ◽  
Cell Phone Use ◽  
Device Use

BACKGROUND Problem phone use is a growing concern in most societies, being associated to social and health problems in a similar way to other behavioral addictions. However, both, its prevalence and its nature as a behavioral disorder are not well described nor understood. More over it is not universally recognized yet as a clinical entity that deserves health-oriented interventions. OBJECTIVE In this study, both, an evaluation of cell phone craving and problematic cell phone use among the Spanish population was carried out. Our initial hypothesis is that both problematic cell phone use and cravings have increased in the last 5 years. METHODS Methods We used our adaptation of the original Mobile Phone Problematic Use Scale (MPPUS) as well as the Mobile Phone Addiction Craving Scale (MPACS) A total of 1,612 online interviews were conducted in 17 autonomous communities in the Spanish territory, with a global and specific analysis by gender, age, profession, education level and population center size. RESULTS The results indicate that the prevalence of problematic cell phone use in Spain is currently 4.8%, with 14.8% of users who abuse and are at risk of dependence and lack of control. In total, 19.6% of the population currently has mobile device use issues. These results do not differ significantly from those obtained in our previous investigation; in contrast, the level of craving increased significant. Both in the prevalence of problematic cell phone use and in craving, the highest incidence is observed for people between 16 and 35 years old, students, and users without education or basic education and in urban centers. There are no differences between genders. CONCLUSIONS Therefore, the present study confirms that prevalence of problem phone use remained high in the Spanish Population, despite the rising concerns around its unhealthy consequences. In addition, we confirmed an increase in cell phone craving scores, indicating that technological dependence and need is increasing every day. CLINICALTRIAL The present study is not an intervention study so no Trial Registration was requested

The effects of shyness and loneliness on cell phone dependence in college students

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yan Chen
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Loneliness Scale ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

I explored the relationships among shyness, loneliness, and cell phone dependence (CPD) in college students, with a special focus on the mediating effect of loneliness in the relationship between shyness and CPD. Participants were 593 students recruited from a college in Henan, China, and they completed the Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale, the UCLA Loneliness Scale–Short Form, and the Mobile Phone Addiction Index. The results show that shyness was significantly correlated with both loneliness and CPD, and that loneliness partially mediated the effect of shyness on CPD. These findings shed light on how shyness predicts CPD and have implications for preventing CPD in college students.

Persistence of the Portrait

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-80
Author(s):  
Ángeles Donoso Macaya
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Public Display ◽  
Book Series ◽  
The Public ◽  
Archival Work

The first chapter underscores the counter-archival work carried out by the Vicaría de la Solidaridad in the composition of the photographic archive of the detained-disappeared. The chapter also considers the different transformations, displacements, and disseminations endured by the portraits of the detained-disappeared. It considers the critical work of Walter Benjamin, Diana Taylor, and Ann Stoler. The analysis contemplates both the composition of the photographic archive of the portraits and the archive’s dissemination in the public space. I consider the Vicaría’s publications Solidaridad (a biweekly newsletter), Separata Solidaridad (a special issue that focused on particular matters also considered in Solidaridad), and the seven-volume book series ¿Dónde están? (1978–1979). I suggest that the visual representation of the crime of forced disappearances, which took shape with the public display of the portraits, was consolidated in these Vicaría publications, above all in ¿Dónde están? I also study artistic photographic practices devised to display and disseminate these photographic portraits in the public space. The chapter begins and ends with a consideration of Hernán Parada’s action “Obrabierta A” (1974–present), in particular one of its iterations in which the artist uses a photocopied mask of his brother, Alejandro Parada, detained and disappeared since July 1974.

Social Resilience in Action

2014 ◽  
pp. 297-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Braga ◽  
Robert K. Logan
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Cell Phone Use ◽  
Mobile Phone Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complex Picture

Recent statistics about the mobile phone market in Brazil state that for every 100 inhabitants there are 130 mobile phones. Despite the euphoria that those numbers bring to business, the social uses of mobile technology in Brazil tells a lot about Brazilian society and culture itself, and show a more complex picture than merely a marketing phenomenon. The authors examine subversive cell phone use in Brazil against the background of the cell phone use worldwide and the social implications of that cell phone use. As soon as a technology is implemented in a culture, it is possible to observe uses that were not intended by the inventors or producers of that technology. People create different strategies to take advantage of the new resource. Using social interaction theories and an ethnographic approach in the natural setting of cell phone use in Brazil, the authors observed how people use the mobile phone technology for interpersonal communication. This chapter addresses three subversive uses of mobile technology, namely, i.) strategies of mobile phone coding; ii) SIM card management; and iii) criminal uses of mobile phones.

Importance of Information Security and Strategies to Prevent Data Breaches in Mobile Devices

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-225
Author(s):  
Maulik Desai ◽  
Swati Jaiswal
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
End User ◽  
Shoulder Surfing ◽  
A Cell ◽  
Encryption Algorithms ◽  
E Mail

Mobile devices have upgraded from normal java-based phones whose basic functionality was calling, messaging, and storing contact information to a more adaptive operating system like Symbian, iOS, and Android, which have smart features like e-mail, audio player, camera, etc. Gradually, everyone started relying more and more on these mobile devices. This led to an increase in the number of cell phone hackers. Common ways that a hacker gets access to your phone is via phishing, shoulder surfing, piggybacking, etc. There are countermeasures to this like bookmarking your most visited sites, using VPN, using encryption algorithms. Data theft and identity theft are a new concern for today's user; this chapter is to educate the end user of different ways in which their privacy can be invaded via a mobile phone. This chapter will help the researchers to know the mindset of a cell phone hacker and what are the potential damages that can be caused by them and strategies to prevent them.

A Continent Embraces the Cell Phone

2007 ◽  
Vol 106 (700) ◽  
pp. 208-212
Author(s):  
Brian J. Hesse
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Grassroots Level

The mobile phone holds the promise of being a tool for widespread, sustained economic development from the grassroots level up.

scholarly journals NONTHERMAL EFFECTS OF MOBILE PHONE RADIATIONS ON HUMAN HEART RATE, BLOOD PRESSURE, AND SUGAR LEVEL

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Basandrai D ◽  
Dhami A K ◽  
Bedi A K
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Human Heart ◽  
P Wave ◽  
St Segment ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Cell Phone Radiation

Objective: A single-blinded pilot study has been conducted to investigate the effect of cell phone radiation on the human heart. Methods: Experimental work has been conducted in Jalandhar-based hospital under the supervision of a cardiologist. During experimental work, electrocardiogram (ECG), blood pressure (BP) level, and sugar level have been examined before and after cell phone radiation exposure. For ECG analysis, the parameters such as heart rate, rhythm, mechanism, axis, P wave, PR interval, QRS complex, ST segment, T wave, and QT interval have been examined in the study.Results: No significant variations in the results of above-mentioned parameter has been observed before and after acute exposure of cell phones radiations by placing cell phone closer to heart.Conclusion: The result of this study concludes that mobile phone radiations do not interfere with any electrical activity of the human heart, BP, and sugar level in healthy individuals.

An Evaluation of Potential Yield of Indium Recycled from Waste Mobile Phone in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 847 ◽  
pp. 335-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heng Guang Wang ◽  
Yu Feng Wu ◽  
Yi Fan Gu ◽  
Xian Zhong Mu
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Logistic Model ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Potential Yield ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Conduction Properties

In recent years, users replace their mobile phone more and more frequently, therefore, the number of waste mobile phones has been increasing year by year. In 2014, the number was more than 1 billion units. Indium, that has unique optical transparency and electrical conduction properties, is a necessary element in the screen of mobile phone. The potential yield of indium recycled from waste mobile phone is considerable. Recycling indium from waste mobile phones can alleviate the constraints of indium resources while gaining great economic benefit. However, there is no relevant research work to evaluate the potential yield of indium in the waste cell phone. This paper explores the main factors that constraint the efficiency of recycling by predicting potential yield of indium recycled from waste mobile phone, and puts forward the corresponding policy recommendations. The results are based on the Logistic model and Stock-base model and a survey. The results show that the potential yield of indium recycled from waste mobile phone from 2015 to 2035 will increase from 8.7 tonnes to 10.2 tonnes in China. However, the recovery rate of waste mobile phone is very low, the actual available amount is far lower than the potential yield of indium. The main factors that constrain the efficiency of recycling are: (1) it is difficult to guarantee information security; (2) the existing recycling system is not perfect; (3) the technology of recycling indium needs to be improved.

Effects of chronic exposure to 2G/3G cell phone radiationon in vitro maturation of bovine oocytes

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuf Ziya Guzey ◽  
Ali Galip Onal
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Group ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
In Vitro Maturation ◽  
Bovine Oocyte ◽  
Maturation Period ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Fluorescent Stain ◽  
Bovine Oocytes

Mobile phone use has arisen and rapidly been increased during last decades and therefore electromagnetic radiation or heat sourcing from mobile phones and its possible damages has become focus of interest. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of mobile phone signals on in vitro maturation of bovine oocytes. A total of 224 bovine cumulus oocyte complexes were matured in vitro and separated into two groups, and only treatment group received mobile phone signals for 100 min by calling 5 min/h. Following maturation period, oocytes were stained by fluorescent stain to assess maturation rates. The results showed that oocytes reaching Metaphase I and Metaphase II stage were 35.2±2.24 % and 48.2±2.21 % for treatment group whereas 11.9±1.45 % and 73.8±4.60 % for controls, respectively (P<0.01). In conclusion, bovine oocyte maturation has been significantly reduced by mobile phone signals.

Space in common: Socially engaged art in the Athens of crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charis Kanellopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Impact

During the last years ‐ within a constantly deepening social, political and economic crisis ‐ Athens’s public space appears challenging, presenting a character of ongoing re-evaluation and change. It is due to the impact of the crisis, for example, that the city’s public space is being approached once more by many citizens who, during the years before the recession, had chosen to transfer main activities and functions of public life to the more protected sphere of privateness. One notices the return to open spaces by locals not only for leisure but also for social interaction. Most emphatically, however, appears the fact of a rising number of population in need, such as homeless people, immigrants or refugees, who host aspects of their private life in the public sphere: most of the times, they are not only users, but rather habitants of public space, in a transitional situation of social suspension, lacking a sense of belonging. Under the light of the city’s different realities, and of an expected social co-existence, the article aims to present the practice of artists who become active in Athens’s public spaces of social ambivalence in Athens, by realizing socially engaged art projects. By focusing on case studies such as Nomadic Architecture Network’s projects, the Victoria Square Project by Rick Lowe and Maria Papadimitriou, Common Platforms, a Blind Date by Adonis Volanakis, along with Rafika Chawishe, or the UrbanDig_Omonia by the UrbanDig Project in Omonia square, among others, the article highlights the artists’ interest in understanding the historical and cultural dynamics of each area and in working with different participants of the community in an effort to find common ground and to create bonds among individuals of unalike backgrounds. The article shows how such artistic practices become a channel of creative expression and fruitful dialogue in environments of precariousness and intolerance. Showing the importance of cooperation and understanding, socially engaged art projects function positively as collaborative ‘heterotopias’ in turbulent times for Athens.

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