Mobile Cultures

Author : Chris Berry,Fran Martin,Audrey Yue
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822384380

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Mobile Cultures by Chris Berry,Fran Martin,Audrey Yue Pdf

Mobile Cultures provides much-needed, empirically grounded studies of the connections between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise of queer Asia. The availability and use of new media—fax machines, mobile phones, the Internet, electronic message boards, pagers, and global television—have grown exponentially in Asia over the past decade. This explosion of information technology has sparked a revolution, transforming lives and lifestyles, enabling the creation of communities and the expression of sexual identities in a region notorious for the regulation of both information and sexual conduct. Whether looking at the hanging of toy cartoon characters like “Hello Kitty” from mobile phones to signify queer identity in Japan or at the development of queer identities in Indonesia or Singapore, the essays collected here emphasize the enormous variance in the appeal and uses of new media from one locale to another. Scholars, artists, and activists from a range of countries, the contributors chronicle the different ways new media galvanize Asian queer communities in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, India, and around the world. They consider phenomena such as the uses of the Internet among gay, lesbian, or queer individuals in Taiwan and South Korea; the international popularization of Japanese queer pop culture products such as Yaoi manga; and a Thai website’s reading of a scientific tract on gay genetics in light of Buddhist beliefs. Essays also explore the politically subversive possibilities opened up by the proliferation of media technologies, examining, for instance, the use of Cyberjaya—Malaysia’s government-backed online portal—to form online communities in the face of strict antigay laws. Contributors. Chris Berry, Tom Boellstorff, Larissa Hjorth, Katrien Jacobs, Olivia Khoo, Fran Martin, Mark McLelland, David Mullaly, Baden Offord, Sandip Roy, Veruska Sabucco, Audrey Yue

Author : Gerard Goggin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135186609

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Mobile Phone Cultures by Gerard Goggin Pdf

What do we really know about mobile phone culture? This provocative and comprehensive collection explores the cultural and media dimensions of mobile phones around the world. An international team of contributors look at how mobiles have been imagined through advertising and social representations - tracing the scripting and shaping of the technology through gender, sexuality, religion, communication style - and explore the locations of mobile phone culture in modernity, urban settings and even transnational families. This book also provides a guide to convergent mobile phone culture, with fresh, innovative accounts of text messaging, Blackberry, camera phones, moblogging and mobile adventures in television. Mobile Phone Culture opens up important new perspectives on how we understand this intimate yet public cultural technology. Previously published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.

Author : Gerard Goggin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135186678

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Mobile Phone Cultures by Gerard Goggin Pdf

What do we really know about mobile phone culture? This provocative and comprehensive collection explores the cultural and media dimensions of mobile phones around the world. An international team of contributors look at how mobiles have been imagined through advertising and social representations - tracing the scripting and shaping of the technology through gender, sexuality, religion, communication style - and explore the locations of mobile phone culture in modernity, urban settings and even transnational families. This book also provides a guide to convergent mobile phone culture, with fresh, innovative accounts of text messaging, Blackberry, camera phones, moblogging and mobile adventures in television. Mobile Phone Culture opens up important new perspectives on how we understand this intimate yet public cultural technology. Previously published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.

Author : M. Pegrum
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137309815

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Mobile Learning by M. Pegrum Pdf

This book explores the use of mobile devices for teaching and learning language and literacies, investigating the ways in which these technologies open up new educational possibilities. Pegrum builds up a rich picture of contemporary mobile learning and outlines of likely future developments.

Author : Gerard Goggin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780415367431

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Cell Phone Culture by Gerard Goggin Pdf

Comprehensive introduction to cell phone culture and theory.

Author : André H. Caron,Letizia Caronia
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780773576575

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Moving Cultures by André H. Caron,Letizia Caronia Pdf

André Caron and Letizia Caronia look at teenagers' use of text messaging to chat, flirt, and gossip. They find that messaging among teens has little to do with sending shorthand information quickly. Instead, it is a verbal performance through which young people create culture. Moving Cultures argues that teenagers have domesticated and reinterpreted this technology.

Author : Larissa Hjorth,Jean Burgess,Ingrid Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136464324

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Studying Mobile Media by Larissa Hjorth,Jean Burgess,Ingrid Richardson Pdf

The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book explores not only the iPhone’s particular characteristics, uses and "affects," but also how the "iPhone moment" functions as a barometer for broader patterns of change. In the iPhone moment, this study considers the convergent trajectories in the evolution of digital and mobile culture, and their implications for future scholarship. Through the lens of the iPhone—as a symbol, culture and a set of material practices around contemporary convergent mobile media—the essays collected here explore the most productive theoretical and methodological approaches for grasping media practice, consumer culture and networked communication in the twenty-first century.

Author : Jane Vincent,Leslie Haddon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315307053

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Smartphone Cultures by Jane Vincent,Leslie Haddon Pdf

Smartphone Cultures explores emerging questions about the ways in which this mobile technology and its apps have been produced, represented, regulated and incorporated into everyday social practices. The various authors in this volume each locate their contributions within the circuit of culture model. More specifically, this book engages with issues of production and regulation in the case of the electrical infrastructure supporting smartphones and the development of mobile social gambling apps. It examines issues of consumption through looking at parental practices relating to children’s smartphone use, children’s experience of the regulation of this technology, both in the home and in school, how they cope with the mass of communications via the smartphone and the nature of their attachment to the device. Other chapters cover the engagement of older people with smartphones, as well as how different cultural norms of sociability have a bearing on how the technology is consumed. The smartphone’s implications for other theoretical frameworks is illustrated through examining ramifications for domestication, and the sometimes-limited place of smartphones in certain aspects of life is examined through its role in the practices of reading and writing. Smartphone Cultures presents the latest international research from scholars located in the UK, Europe, the US and Australia and will appeal to scholars and students of media and cultural studies, communication studies and sociologists with interests in technology and social practices.

Author : Peter Glotz,Stefan Bertschi,Chris Locke
Publisher : Transcript Verlag
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3899424034

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Thumb Culture by Peter Glotz,Stefan Bertschi,Chris Locke Pdf

Mobile communication has an increasing impact on people's lives and society. Ubiquitous media influence the way users relate to their surroundings, and data services like text and pictures lead to a culture shaped by thumbs. Representing several years of research into the social and cultural effects of mobile phone use, this volume assembles fascinating approaches and new insights of leading scientists and practitioners. It contains the results of a first international survey on the social consequences of mobile phones and provides a comprehensive inventory of today's issues and an outlook in mobile media, society, and their future study. Peter Glotz is Emeritus Professor of Media and Society, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Stefan Bertschi is a researcher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Author : Nanna Verhoeff
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089643797

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Mobile Screens by Nanna Verhoeff Pdf

"Nanna Verhoeff's new book is a must for anybody interested in visual culture and media theory. It offers a rich and stimulating theoretical account of the central dimension of our contemporary existence--interfacing and navigating both data and physical world through a variety of screens (game consoles, mobile phones, car interfaces, GPS devices, etc.). In the process of exploring these new screen practices, Verhoeff offers fresh perspectives on many of the key questions in media and new media studies as well as a number of new original theoretical concepts. As the first theoretical manual for the society of mobile screens, this book will become an essential reference for all future investigations of our mobile screen condition.--Lev Manovich."--Publisher's description.

Author : Ozgen, Ozlen
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781522584926

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Handbook of Research on Consumption, Media, and Popular Culture in the Global Age by Ozgen, Ozlen Pdf

The mass production and diversification of media have accelerated the development of popular culture. This has started a new trend in consumerism of desiring new consumption objects and devaluing those consumption objects once acquired, thus creating a constant demand for new items. Pop culture now canalizes consumerism both with advertising and the marketing of consumerist lifestyles, which are disseminated in the mass media. The Handbook of Research on Consumption, Media, and Popular Culture in the Global Age discusses interdisciplinary perspectives on media influence and consumer impacts in a globalizing world due to modern communication technology. Featuring research on topics such as consumer culture, communication ethics, and social media, this book is ideally designed for managers, marketers, researchers, academicians, and students.

Author : Orvar Löfgren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UCLA:L0106153703

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Ethnologia Europaea by Orvar Löfgren Pdf

Author : Dal Yong Jin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789402408263

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Mobile Gaming in Asia by Dal Yong Jin Pdf

This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry – a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Asians’ engagement with mobile gaming. This edition focuses not only on the remarkable success of local mobile games, but also on the significance of social milieu in the development of Asian mobile technologies and gaming culture. It analyzes the growth of the current mobile technologies and mobile gaming not as separate but as continuous developments in tandem with the digital economy. It is of interest to both academics and a broader readership from the business, government, and information technology sectors

Author : Gerard Goggin,Larissa Hjorth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135856670

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Mobile Technologies by Gerard Goggin,Larissa Hjorth Pdf

In light of emerging forms of software, interfaces, cultures of uses, and media practices associated with mobile media, this collection investigates the various ways in which mobile media is developing in different cultural, linguistic, social, and national settings. Specifically, contributors consider the promises and politics of mobile media and its role in the dynamic social and gender relations configured in the boundaries between public and private spheres. The collection is genuinely interdisciplinary, as well as international in its range, with contributors and studies from China, Japan, Korea, Italy, Norway, France, Belgium, Britain, and Australia.

Author : Elaine Cardenas,Ellen Gorman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123298858

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The Hummer by Elaine Cardenas,Ellen Gorman Pdf

"[This book] is a study of America's most controversial personal automobile. Featuring more than fifteen essays, this collection analyzes the Hummer through a wide array of disciplines. The editors, Elaine Cardenas and Ellen Gorman, have divided the essays into four groups: myth and space, myth and body, myth and discourse, and myth as vehicle. An introduction by the editors places the study of the Hummer in a cultural context." -- from cover, page 4.