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- 1Mobile Phone1G -> analogue. creation of cellular network
2G -> GSM. smaller. SMS
3G -> higher speed/data capacity, photos, mp3s, MMS, touch screen, QWERTY etc
4G -> internet access, video streaming etc - 2MP3 PlayerJuly 1979 -> Sony Walkman
October 2001 -> Apple iPod
Affordability, portability - 3Wireless InternetUsing radio waves instead of cables to send/receive internet data
- 4Gergen (2002)"Absent presence" - people are physically present in a given space, but at the same time they are absent, as they communicate not with those they see, but with others that may be many miles away
- 5Katz & Aakhus (2002)"Perpetual contact" - we are always available; the very concept of time changes in/through mobile media
- 6Lee (2007)In China, text voting on TV talent shows has been banned, perhaps because it may encourage people to demand more democracy
- 7Subramanian et al. (2006)Main factors for the success of wireless internet in developing regions:
1. Lower costs
2. Ease of deployment
3. Reliable substitute for local communications infrastructure - 8Stump et al. (2008)The mobile phone digital divide often reflects a country's overall wealth, measured in terms of GDP and development levels
- 9Campbell (2006)Students & faculty members are disturbed by and dislike the use of mobile phones in the lecture theatre/classroom
- 10Sorenson (2006)'It's rude to speak on the phone when with another person'
- 11Ito (2005)In Japan, it is rude to take voice calls on the underground
- 12Yoon (2003)Korean schoolchildren consider it unacceptable to use their phone in class
- 13Benkler (2006)The commercialisation of new media may prevent them from fulfilling their democratic potential - governed by commercial/market-based interests
- 14Agar (2003)There is a common theme in the use of mobile phones: the development of horizontal social networks that are critical of central authority
- 15Rheingold (2002)Smart mobs/intelligent swarms - mobile phones encourage a horizontal, network-style organisation, characterised by a lack of central authority and the autonomy of the 'subunits' that make up the network
- 16Hands (2010)Mobil(e)zation still operates within the confines of liberal individualism, with politics seen as the outcome of individual preferences/decisions - underneath it all, one can see the maximisation of profit, utility or reputation as the prime motivator. Thus, the 'smart mob' still operates within the logic of the market
- 17Thurlow and Brown (2003)Text messaging in fact serves the socio-linguistic principles of brevity and speed - young people's messages are both linguistically unremarkable and communicatively adept
- 18Bull (2005)Mobile listeners create their own auditory/aesthetic environment which isolates them from their ambient environment. MP3 users 'achieve a level of autonomy over time and place through the creation of a privatised auditory bubble'
- 19Lacohee et al (2003)By 2000, 50% of the UK population owned a mobile phone
- 20Keegan (2000)In the UK, the license auction generated £22.5 billion - led telecom companies to incur massive debts & eventually crash, leaving thousands unemployed
- 21Campbell and Park (2008)Since the individual is placed at the centre of the mobile communicative process we can speak of the rise of a 'personal communication society' - society revolves more and more around interpersonal communication. Mobile networks allow people to become autonomous nodes
- 22Castells et al. (2007)The media does not 'cause' any kind of effects, but rather their use, as embedded in existing socio-cultural/political contexts. Technology 'extends the domain of what is feasible'
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- Sociology of New Media Fichas sobre Mobile Media, creado por Rachel Williamson el 22/01/2018.
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