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Mobile Media & Communication

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ISSN (Print) 2050-1579 - ISSN (Online) 2050-0158
Published by Sage Publications

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Welcome to Mobile Media & Communication
- Authors: Jones, S; Karnowski, V, Ling, R, von Pape, T.
  Pages: 3 - 7
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912471456|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/3
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Mobile media and communication: A new field, or just a new journal'
- Authors: Campbell; S. W.
  Pages: 8 - 13
  Abstract: This journal represents a step forward in the development of mobile communication studies as a field. This field has been establishing itself through a number of other initiatives as well, including conferences, symposiums, edited books, listservs, and centers for research. Despite this momentum, little attention has been given to defining – and justifying – the field itself. This essay begins by questioning whether there really is, or should be, a distinct field of study for research and theory on mobile media and communication. I then proceed to address this question by highlighting themes in the literature that illustrate how mobile communication is distinct from other forms of mediated communication and information exchange, with correspondingly distinctive social consequences. The essay argues that there are indeed justifiable reasons for treating mobile communication studies as a field. However, like the technology itself, this field is – or at least should be – highly integrated with research and theory of media and communication more broadly.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459495|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/8
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Mobile communication and intermediality
- Authors: Helles; R.
  Pages: 14 - 19
  Abstract: The article argues the importance of intermediality as a concept for research in mobile communication and media. The constant availability of several, partially overlapping channels for communication (texting, calls, email, Facebook, etc.) requires that we adopt an integrated view of the various communicative affordances of mobile devices in order to understand how people choose between them for different purposes. It is argued that mobile communication makes intermediality especially central, as the choice of medium is detached from the location of stationary media and begins to follow the user across all contexts of daily life.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459496|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/14
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Mobile social media: Future challenges and opportunities
- Authors: Humphreys; L.
  Pages: 20 - 25
  Abstract: This article explores the future research opportunities and challenges of mobile social media. First, I problematize what constitutes the boundaries of mobile social media. Distinctions between location-based mobile social networks and non-location-based mobile social networks are established to suggest that the mobility of social media is in fact much broader than location alone. Second, several key theoretical questions are identified for future exploration, including micro, meso, and macro-level theories. Lastly, methodological challenges and opportunities are reflected upon and culminate in the call for multi-disciplinary programs of research to fully understand the role of mobile social media in the world today.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459499|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/20
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
What's mobile in mobile communication'
- Authors: Jensen; K. B.
  Pages: 26 - 31
  Abstract: Interrogating the terminology of "mobile" communication, this article notes that media and communicative practices have been mobile for millennia. What’s mobile about cell phones and other current mobile media is a new range of contexts in which personally meaningful and socially consequential interactions become possible. Mobile media should be studied, above all, as resources of social action across physical space. Mobile media, further, provide the wider field of research with an opportunity to revisit the great divide between technologically mediated and embodied communication. Technologically mediated communication remains grounded in human bodies residing in local places. Humans can be understood as a first degree of media whose communicative and performative reach has been extended in time and space by historically shifting technologies.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459493|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/26
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Mobile media and communication in everyday life: Milestones and challenges
- Authors: Linke; C.
  Pages: 32 - 37
  Abstract: 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.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459501|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/32
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
So what' Why study mobile media and communication'
- Authors: Smith; R.
  Pages: 38 - 41
  Abstract: The essay argues that even though mobile may soon become less distinctive as a niche form of communication, Mobile Media and Communication will remain relevant through a focus on "mobile" from both the historical and user perspective. These stances encourage reflection. Keeping a critical stance and focusing on users in our work is absolutely essential.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459498|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/38
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
From domestication to mediated mobilism
- Authors: Hartmann; M.
  Pages: 42 - 49
  Abstract: Domestication is an approach which considers media appropriation processes in detail, looking at media technologies as doubly articulated and integrated into moral economies. Originally developed for the study of household contexts, the domestication framework has increasingly been used to study the appropriation of mobile media in diverse contexts. The article summarizes this development briefly to then suggest that another concept – of mediated mobilism – might be a useful extension to study mobile media and mobility in future.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912464487|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/42
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Mobile media: Coming of age with a big splash
- Authors: Wei; R.
  Pages: 50 - 56
  Abstract: In a very short period of time, mobile telephony, tablets, and other hand-held devices swept the world. The world’s first cellular network was created in 1977, but the mobile phone has made history as one of the fastest diffusing communication technologies, reaching nearly six billion subscribers by 2011. The time is right to define mobile media in an effort to better understand mobile communication technologies and their broad implications for the fundamental meanings of media, communication, community, social institutions, and especially society. In this article, I argue that the advent of mobile telephony as a wireless telecommunication system and portable platform for human communication has seemingly transformed the classical definition of mass communication. In fact, mobile media-supported communication, such as mobile news and mobile tweets, has accelerated what communication scholars have described as "the end of mass communication." The article ends with a call for a holistic view of mobile communication research.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459494|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/50
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Implications of software-based mobile media for social research
- Authors: Boase; J.
  Pages: 57 - 62
  Abstract: Software-based mobile media devices such as smartphones and tablets pose both theoretical challenges and methodological opportunities for social research. The first part of this article discusses how the complex, changing, and often idiosyncratic configuration of software-based mobile devices challenges the production of theoretical generalizations within and across populations. It is argued that overcoming this challenge involves attention to the mobile nature of these devices and focusing on clearly defined, widespread affordances. The second part of this article discusses ethical, philosophical, and theoretical issues surrounding the methodological opportunity to collect large quantities of behavioral data using software-based mobile devices.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459500|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/57
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Opportunities and problems with automated data collection via smartphones
- Authors: Bouwman, H; de Reuver, M, Heerschap, N, Verkasalo, H.
  Pages: 63 - 68
  Abstract: Through smartphone measurement software, researchers will be able to collect vast amounts of log data on the use of mobile media and applications. The present paper discusses the opportunities of smartphone measurement software in multi-method research, but also the ethical and methodological issues involved. We provide suggestions on how to deal with obvious privacy issues that arise from using smartphone measurement software. We also discuss how one can deal with sampling and selecting respondents. An illustrative study in which we applied smartphone measurement suggests that methodological and ethical issues can be overcome in practice, although doing so requires a great deal of effort. Still, collecting data through smartphone measurement is highly promising as both the quality and quantity of the resulting data is impressive.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912464492|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/63
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
The promise and peril of mHealth in developing countries
- Authors: Chib; A.
  Pages: 69 - 75
  Abstract: The mHealth field understandably arose from a base of practice, developed a nascent, yet ever-expanding, body of inter-disciplinary scholarship, and currently hopes for recognition by, and establishment on, national and trans-national policy bodies and agendas respectively. However, to justify public investment, policymakers require a body of theoretically sound, methodologically rigorous, and generalizable, evidence on how mobile technologies can effectively improve basic healthcare service delivery for hard-to-reach, resource-poor populations in developing countries. This essay draws upon prior work, ranging from a review article, an mHealth intervention for Indonesian healthcare workers within the medical infrastructure, to a text-messaging project in Uganda focused on beneficiaries. The argument is organized around theoretical, methodological, and sustainability issues, and proposes suggestions for how the discipline of mobile communication studies can add value to the field of mHealth research in developing countries.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459502|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/69
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Phoning it in: Theory in mobile media and communication in developing countries
- Authors: Pearce; K. E.
  Pages: 76 - 82
  Abstract: As 75 percent of the world’s mobile subscriptions are in developing countries, studies of use patterns are essential to broader understanding. However, scholars should engage with existing theory and literature in order to operate within a framework and expand readership. Rigorous and ethical research from a variety of methodological perspectives is encouraged.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459182|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/76
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Youth culture and mobiles
- Authors: Goggin; G.
  Pages: 83 - 88
  Abstract: The category of youth has been a strategically important focus in the development of mobile communication and media research. This paper reviews the themes and findings of the first phase of youth and mobile phone research, followed by a phase of new work just underway on youth and mobile media and mobile internet. It argues for the importance of an enlarged, interdisciplinary, and international perspective if we are to advance the field – and our understanding of youth and mobiles – as the technology is incorporated into the larger field of internet, social, and digital media.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912464489|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/83
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Mobile media and children
- Authors: Haddon; L.
  Pages: 89 - 95
  Abstract: This article explores a range of research issues relating to children and mobile media, including the potential growth of children’s screen time, the regulation of children’s use of these media, the challenge of managing increasing media options, effects on children’s perception of time, problems posed for parental surveillance and the domestication of mobile media within peer groups. All of these are viewed in the context of broader societal change, evolving norms of childhood and parenthood, cross-cultural variation and the existence of diversity amongst children and youth.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459504|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/89
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
On mobile communication and youth "deviance": Beyond moral, media and mobile panics
- Authors: Lim; S. S.
  Pages: 96 - 101
  Abstract: Cautionary voices have pointed to the apparent dangers that mobile media and communication pose for young people in the form of "deviant" activities such as sexting and mobile phone-facilitated bullying and criminal activity. Such incidents have ignited moral panics about the proliferation of mobile media because they are seen to facilitate emergent social/spatial interactions that are either unprecedented, or occurring on a scale not hitherto witnessed. While labelling concerns about youth deviance that is, in some measure, enabled or facilitated by mobile communications as "moral panics" is unproductive, it would be equally myopic to disregard the risks that mobile media can pose for youths in certain circumstances. This article critically examines the panic discourse surrounding youths and mobile media before reviewing research that suggests how mobile media can present risks for youths in particular contexts and milieus.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459503|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/96
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
The mobile phone between fashion and design
- Authors: Fortunati; L.
  Pages: 102 - 109
  Abstract: In this article first of all I want to look at the current debate on fashion and the mobile phone. After a brief outline of the question, I discuss the role of fashion and then of design, an interconnected theme that has never been satisfactorily addressed in this debate. Then I analyse briefly how social networks and applications have introduced the discourse surrounding fashion and information about fashion to this device. My conclusion is that it is now necessary to make social science research converge with HCI research in order to have a better understanding of the potentialities of the mobile phone and a clearer vision of where research is now needed.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459497|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/102
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
The place of the emplaced mobile: A case study into gendered locative media practices
- Authors: Hjorth; L.
  Pages: 110 - 115
  Abstract: In this inaugural issue of the timely Mobile Media & Communication journal, questions have been posed about the state of play for mobile communication now and in the future. Given the growing convergence between mobile, social and locative media, this requires a reassessment of mobile media and its relationship with place and intimacy. How are these convergent media platforms, contexts and practices shaping, and being shaped by, intimate cartographies of place' Drawing on a case study of location-based services, games and camera phone practices in South Korea, this paper explores the role of gendered visual cultures in the relationship between place and intimacy.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459738|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/110
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Location-aware mobile technologies: Historical, social and spatial approaches
- Authors: de Souza e Silva; A.
  Pages: 116 - 121
  Abstract: With the popularization of smartphones, location-based services are increasingly part of everyday life. People use their cell phones to find nearby restaurants and friends in the vicinity, and track their children. Although location-based services have received sparse attention from mobile communication scholars to date, the ability to locate people and things with one’s cell phone is not new. Since the removal of GPS signal degradation in 2000, artists and researchers have been exploring how location-awareness influences mobility, spatiality, and sociability. Besides exploring the historical antecedents of today’s location-based services, this article focuses on the main social issues that emerge when location-aware technologies leave the strict domain of art and research and become part of everyday life: locational privacy, sociability, and spatiality. Finally, this article addresses two main topics that future mobile communication research that focuses on location-awareness should take into consideration: a shift in the meaning of location, and the adoption and appropriation of location-aware technologies in the global south.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459492|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/116
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Merging mobile communication studies and urban research: Mobile locative media, "onscreen encounters" and the reshaping of the interaction order in public places
- Authors: Licoppe; C.
  Pages: 122 - 128
  Abstract: This communication discusses how the use of locative media in urban public settings allows users to recognize one another’s proximity on screen. Such "on screen encounters" make simultaneously relevant the categories of passer-by and mobile user, thus creating a tension between an orientation towards civil inattention or engaging in focused, face-to-face interactions. Such a tension is characteristic of the interaction order of urban settings experienced as location- or proximity-aware "hybrid ecologies".
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912464488|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/122
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Mobile gazing two-ways: Visual layering as an emerging mobile communication service
- Authors: Katz; J.
  Pages: 129 - 133
  Abstract: The emerging era of mobile communication transcends the traditional privileging of text and voice to draw upon sensations of augmented reality, especially in terms of the visual domain. Thus one will be able to have new views of the local environment (mobile visual services). In terms of the former, the sense of sight is increasingly being brought to bear on the nexus of physical environment and digital information, yielding literally novel and unprecedented views. This article assesses examples of these services and the way they inter-mix previously separate domains, but also create new layers of monitoring of self and others. In particular, it notes conflicts at the levels of public policy and individual privacy and autonomy.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459184|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/129
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Do mobile technologies reshape speaking, writing, or reading'
- Authors: Baron; N. S.
  Pages: 134 - 140
  Abstract: With the growth of mobile communication technologies, we increasingly use portable devices to produce and read text that previously existed in hardcopy or on stationary screens. Voice recognition software now enables us to speak rather than write, potentially shifting the current dominance of texting over voice calls on mobile phones. This article describes contemporary studies of language use on mobile technologies and poses research questions for new investigations.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459739|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/134
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
The texture of our business
- Authors: Harper; R.
  Pages: 141 - 146
  Abstract: A key theme in mobile communications research is the idea that people are suffering from communications overload. This essay remarks on what that term might mean and how it ought to be addressed when viewed from the perspective of mobile phone research. It will argue that its use in everyday life is rich and complex, and that this use ought to be a research topic in its own right. Some of the difficulties that will need to be addressed when this occurs are noted.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912460033|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/141
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
The infrastructures of mobile media: Towards a future reseach agenda
- Authors: Horst; H. A.
  Pages: 147 - 152
  Abstract: In this contribution to the inaugural issue of Mobile Media & Communication, I draw upon recent work on mobiles in the global south to illustrate how the ‘third wave’ of mobile communication research requires a renewed focus upon the political and economic dimensions of infrastructures and the subversion of the system by individuals, communities and organizations. Inspired by Susan Leigh Star’s seminal work on the importance of studying infrastructures, I suggest that mobile media scholarship should look to the changes in the technical, social, political, regulatory and other forms of infrastructures that the first two waves’ focus upon novel uses and consumers often rendered invisible.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912464490|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/147
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Your smart phones are hot pockets to us: Context collapse in a mobilized age
- Authors: Marvin; C.
  Pages: 153 - 159
  Abstract: A key guarantor of social trust and a necessary feature of democratic societies is a stable sense of social distance. Social distance is the cultural imaginary within which an individual’s coordinates of social status and contingent social location allow or inhibit contact with similarly and dissimilarly located others. The rearrangement of customary social distances by new communication technologies is a source of considerable social anxiety. In mobile communication, this context collapse is instigated by a distinctive combination of affordances: deep connectivity, the accelerated speed and volume of communicative exchange, enhanced social legibility and asymmetric communicative transparency. Robust and effective levels of social trust depend on a political will to build strong democratic accountability and civil rights guarantees into emerging mobile architectures. Identifying specific recalibrations of familiar social distances by regimes of mobile communication and assessing the effects of these recalibrations in democratic terms is a central task of mobile research.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912464491|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/153
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
Gregory Bateson gets a mobile phone
- Authors: Steier; F.
  Pages: 160 - 165
  Abstract: Concepts from Gregory Bateson are used to explore the ways that mobile media shape communication process in public and private spaces. His focus on patterns of relationship is used to offer insight into ways of understanding differences in behavior with mobile media as frame dilemmas.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459183|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/160
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)
If Romeo and Juliet had mobile phones
- Authors: Wellman, B; Rainie, L.
  Pages: 166 - 171
  Abstract: How did the absence of mobile phones affect the romantic life and death of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet' The difference in their situation would have been part of the social change to networked individualism from group-based societies. The Mobile Revolution would have afforded personal communication rather than the household-centered communication of the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo and Juliet would have been always available to each other, instead of wondering where the other might be. Location-aware apps would have plotted their whereabouts. The course of true love would have been more connected.
  PubDate: 2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
  DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459505|hwp:resource-id:spmmc;1/1/166
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013)