Mobile Media

The Hollins Community Project: New Media, Narrative, and Affective History

by Alli Crandell

The Number in my Pocket: the Power of Mobile Technology for the Exchange of Indigenous Knowledge

by Niall McNulty

Co-authored with Elizabeth Greyling. Published in conference proceedings 'IKTC2011: Embracing Indigenous Knowledge Systems in a New Technology Design Paradigm'

The last decade has seen the development of online databases becoming an established norm throughout the world for the... more The last decade has seen the development of online databases becoming an established norm throughout the world for the preservation of Indigenous Knowledge. However, in the absence of desktop computers and ubiquitous Internet access, Africa is limping behind in this quest for global information, with the digital divide ever widening and the wealth of Indigenous Knowledge fast disappearing for the people of this continent. In a bid to address these seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Africa is recognizing the potential of the mobile phone to enable the continent to catch up with the global information society. Since 2000 some 316 million new mobile phone subscriptions have emerged on the African continent. For them the cell phone has become an information hub, the primary interface through which to connect to Africa and to the rest of the world. A recent, promising development has been the introduction of browsers on mobile phones. This, combined with the 3G network all cellular providers have migrated to, means that ordinary Africans are accessing the Internet from their phones in ever-increasing numbers. The success of a number of Internet-based mobile applications means that the average cell phone user now associates his phone with more than just the calls he makes or text messages he sends. He can also play music, show video, find out where he is via GPS and access local and global information. This paper describes a concept for the development of user- generated content compiled in an online Indigenous Knowledge database, making use of current mobile and web technologies. Informed by empirical practice based on a real African case-study, the different tools are discussed, highlighting the interaction between the library, the community and the technologies. The participating role of local communities leading to enrichment of the database is juxtaposed against the library’s anchor role as custodian of the knowledge resource. The preservation of context- related local knowledge creates a digital library of relevance to local communities. Technical functionality enables the social interaction that results from knowledge sharing. Short and long term benefits that the community stands to gain are discussed and the limitations of the model pointed out.

HTC Wildfire S Cases for Next Generation are here finally

by Loveneet S

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Looking for HTC Wildfire S cover or case?at the most affordable prices in UK we offer you with wide variety of best... more Looking for HTC Wildfire S cover or case?at the most affordable prices in UK we offer you with wide variety of best HTC Wildfire S cases UK Cover your HTC Wildfire S with our selection of HTC Wildfire S cases and covers. One Stop online store for all your HTC Wildfire S Cases, Wildfire S Cases including Belt Clips, Fashion Cases, Hard Cases .

Location and Mediation in Networked Space

by Federica Timeto

published in the CRXII conference proceedings, Artshare, 2011, pp. 252-258.

Performing technologies for performed territories

by Federica Timeto

Unpublished paper, delivered at the Borderscapes conference, Trapani, Sept. 2009. Please do not quote without permission.

IJILTH01.02: David ROBISON, "M-learning for tertiary education" (pp. 1-3)

by IJILTH Innovation and Leadership in the Teaching of Humanities

How to be in Two Places at the Same Time. Mobile Phone Uses in Public Places

by Amparo Lasén

Chapter published in Höflich J., Hartman M. (eds) 2006 Mobile Communication in Everyday Life. Ethnographic Views, Observations and Reflections, Berlin, Frank & Timme, pp.227-252.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Madrid, London and Paris, this chapter discusses how mobile phone use... more Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Madrid, London and Paris, this chapter discusses how mobile phone use in public places modifies the way we perform being a stranger in public, as well as the different ways people deals with the double presence afforded by mobile phones: in the public place where the users are and in the space of the phone conversation.

DESIGN DE NARRATIVAS AUDIOVISUAIS PARA DISPOSITIVOS MÓVEIS (CELULAR): INTERRELAÇÕES DAS LINGUAGENS CINEMATOGRÁFICA E …

by Ursula Reichenbach

All the World's a Link: The Global Theater of Mobile World Browsers

by John Tinnell

Published in Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture

Between image and information: the iPhone camera in the history of photography

by Chris Chesher

Chesher, Chris (2012) 'Between image and information: the iPhone camera in the history of photography' in Larissa Hjorth (Editor), Jean Burgess (Editor), Ingrid Richardson (Editor), Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies) London: Routledge.

(ISBN-10: 0415895340 | ISBN-13: 978-0415895347 | Publication Date: February 9, 2012)

Technology and protest in Indonesia

by Alexandra Crosby

As part of the Global Information Society Report 2011 - Internet rights and democratisation

Recently, the long simmering issue of human rights abuses in the Indonesian province of West Papua has been brought to... more Recently, the long simmering issue of human rights abuses in the Indonesian province of West Papua has been brought to the boil by online video evidence. On May 30, 2010, the torture of Tunaliwor Kiwo, a Papuan farmer, and his neighbour, was recorded with a soldier's mobile phone. After being leaked to activists, the video was distributed on several sites including the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) from October. A few months later, EngageMedia released a video testimony of the torture with English subtitles. The Indonesian government was urged by Human Rights Watch and others to mount a thorough, impartial, and transparent investigation into the episode. Since October, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has reported attacks on their website along with several other groups who featured the torture video, including Survival International, West Papua Media Alerts, Free West Papua Campaign, Friends of People Close To Nature and West Papua Unite. The torture incident, its documentation and its associated effects is useful in tracing the way video can be used in concert with human rights campaigns in raising public awareness and bringing about social change. It also raises questions around what responsibilities video makers and distributors have to their subjects and how people watch and interpret disturbing
footage.

Konwergencja jako strategia. Charakterystyka konstytutywnych elementów komunikacji skonwergowanej na przykładzie mobloga

by Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech

Media i społeczeństwo. Nowe strategie komunikacyjne, red. M. Sokołowski, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2008.

The magic circle and the mobility of play

by Christopher Moore

convergence, media, play, mobility, identity, games

Convergent media and communication technologies have changed what it means for games to be mobile, but play has a... more Convergent media and communication technologies have changed what it means for games to be mobile, but play has a mobility of its own that often goes unacknowledged. This article draws together emerging theory from debates in game studies on the separation of the experience of gameplay from the everyday. It examines the metaphor of the ‘magic circle’ and analyses how play, as a mode of experience, is mobilized across dimensions of hardware and software, extending the functions of games beyond the imagining of designers and manufacturers. The article considers what the mobility of play indicates for the player in the creation and management of identity online in the light of game studies consolidation of the magic circle through Goffman’s Frame Analysis. It sees new opportunities in the play of Zombie Media and the role of digital game artifacts in the presentation of the gamer persona, recasting Benjamin and Baudelaire’s flaˆ neur as the ‘gameur’.

The 4C’s of Mobile News: Channels, Conversation, Content and Commerce

by François Nel

Co-authored with Oscar Westlund, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

First draft of the paper was presented at the Future of Journalism Conference, 8-9th September 2011, Cardiff, U.K. Edited version published in a special edition of Journalism Practice, Spring 2012.

Newspapers are in flux. Having seen their traditional businesses battered by forces that include the structural... more Newspapers are in flux. Having seen their traditional businesses battered by forces that include the structural changes fuelled by the rapid growth of networked digital technologies and the cyclical shifts in the economy, mainstream news publishers have intensified efforts to adapt their journalism processes and products in order to generate new income. However, growing digital revenue streams to match, if not surpass, the losses in print circulation and advertising incomes has proved more difficult than many had predicted. A bright – or at least not quite so dim – spot glows from mobile devices. Drawing on data from an annual audit conducted in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, this article examines how 66 metropolitan newspapers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have performed with respect to channels, content, conversation and commerce (4C’s). While findings show the expansion of newspapers’ mobile endeavours, these are uneven and characterised by repurposing existing content and duplicating traditional commercial models.

KEY WORDS: newspapers; future of journalism; media competition; mobile news; online business models

Control Shift & Returns: the tactics and tools local newspapers use to maintain relationships with users online and on mobile

by François Nel

Presented at the Future of Journalism conference, 8-9 September 2011, Cardiff  Cardiff, Wales, UK

Though the Internet’s role in compelling a re-examination of the once-discrete roles of news producer and news... more Though the Internet’s role in compelling a re-examination of the once-discrete roles of news producer and news audience has been widely discussed and the need for a systematic review of this evolving relationship has been noted, relatively little is known about the specific strategies local newspapers employ to cultivate and main these community connections, nor the extent to which these efforts have paid off. 

This study addresses that gap by examining how local newspapers in Britain, an understudied group with long-standing ties to local and even “hyperlocal” communities, have undertaken the challenges of building, transforming, and maintaining relationships with their news users online and on mobile. With reference to communication, journalism and relationship theory, two datasets compiled between 2008 and 2010 are considered: an annual audit of the online and mobile activities of the largest newspapers in each of Britain’s 66 cities, as well as the concomitant print circulation and online user figures. Research interviews bring a qualitative dimension to the analysis that identifies variations in approaches to three forms of interactivity - navigational, conversational and personalization – and offers a taxonomy of tactics and tools organisations use to foster and maintain increasingly symmetrical relationships with digital news users.

The results also indicate that while these initiatives might be increasing the satisfaction levels of empowered digital news users, some news organisations feel frustrated by the extent to which their efforts have been recognised and rewarded.

KEY WORDS: online interactivity; organisation-public relationships; digital news; newspapers

Does Location Based Mobile Advertising work?

by SY Banerjee

Ringtones may be music to Chinese ears

by Lucy Montgomery

Griffiths, M.D. (2003). Gr8 nus 4U? Times Higher Education Supplement, September 23, p.19.

by Mark Griffiths

Does Location Based Mobile Advertising work?

by SY Banerjee

‘Mobiles are not that personal’: the unexpected consequences of the accountability, accessibility and transparency afforded by mobile telephony”

by Amparo Lasén

Published in  Rich Ling y Scott Campbell (eds.) 2011 The Mobile Communication Research Series: Volume II, Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart?, pp. 83-105