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Mobile Communication and Low-Skilled Migrants' Acculturation to
Cosmopolitan Singapore examines the role of mobile communication in
the acculturation of South Asian labor migrants to Singapore,
adopting a mobile phone appropriation model and following a
pluralistic-typological approach. While presenting data from a
questionnaire survey and interviews with low-skilled migrants from
Bangladesh and India in Singapore, it explores how their specific
social conditions, including their transient status and low
entitlements in their host country, influenced their mobile phone
appropriation. It considers the links these migrants established
and retained with their countries of origin and residence to
identify several types of appropriation and acculturation types
among the various populations.
The rise of the smartphone has shifted news from fixed publication
to a flow of updateable information. The chapters in this book
investigate the implications for audiences, industry and society as
news becomes mobile. Wherever we go, news from anywhere can reach
us on our smartphones. And wherever we are, we can search up
information specific to that place. News is produced by mobile
journalists (MoJos) as well as by citizens armed with smartphones,
reporting breaking news from crisis zones where information is
uncertain, or hyperlocal news from neighbourhoods where little
happens. Mobile technology allows citizens to engage deeply with a
cause or to skim headlines so they know a little about a lot of
things. News is distributed on mobile networks and consumed by
mobile audiences as they make their daily way through time and
space coloured by their mobile devices. It is consumed in the
niches of life. It intersects with place in new ways as geolocated
news. It pursues us wherever we are through push notifications. And
news has moved from fixed to fluid, a flow of updateable
information rather than a regularly issued product. In this book,
the contributors take varied viewpoints on mobility and news, its
impact on what news is, how journalists produce it and how it fits
into everybody's everyday life. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of Digital Journalism.
The rise of the smartphone has shifted news from fixed publication
to a flow of updateable information. The chapters in this book
investigate the implications for audiences, industry and society as
news becomes mobile. Wherever we go, news from anywhere can reach
us on our smartphones. And wherever we are, we can search up
information specific to that place. News is produced by mobile
journalists (MoJos) as well as by citizens armed with smartphones,
reporting breaking news from crisis zones where information is
uncertain, or hyperlocal news from neighbourhoods where little
happens. Mobile technology allows citizens to engage deeply with a
cause or to skim headlines so they know a little about a lot of
things. News is distributed on mobile networks and consumed by
mobile audiences as they make their daily way through time and
space coloured by their mobile devices. It is consumed in the
niches of life. It intersects with place in new ways as geolocated
news. It pursues us wherever we are through push notifications. And
news has moved from fixed to fluid, a flow of updateable
information rather than a regularly issued product. In this book,
the contributors take varied viewpoints on mobility and news, its
impact on what news is, how journalists produce it and how it fits
into everybody's everyday life. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of Digital Journalism.
This volume brings together scholars from around the world to
consider how mobile communication is both bringing us together and
destroying our sense of social cohesion. There is no question that
uses of technology can lead to increased cohesion within personal
communities. However, as social networks become inundated with
mobile communication users, the contributors argue, they may become
isolated and social division can take hold. Mobile Communication
covers a wide range of topics, including the replacement of
co-present interaction with mediated contact; analysis of
mobile-based cohesion and gender; the role of media choice and its
effect on the quality as well as quantity of social cohesion;
mobile communication and communities of interest; and mobile
communication, cohesion, and youth. Qualitative and quantitative
analyses of mobile use and its impact on social cohesion are also
considered. There are chapters on caravan couples in Australia,
factory workers in China, young couples in Germany, citizens in
Slovenia, and sports clubs in Ireland. There is also research on
drunken calls between university students in the U.S., calls among
international students in Switzerland who strive to keep in
contact, and communications by immigrant women in Melbourne,
Australia.
One of the most significant and obvious examples of how mobile
communication influences our understanding of time and space is how
we coordinate with one another. Mobile communication enables us to
call specific individuals, not general places. Regardless of
location, we are able to make contact with almost anyone, almost
anywhere. This advancement has changed, and continues to change,
human interaction. Now, instead of agreeing on a particular time
well beforehand, we can iteratively work out the most convenient
time and place to meet at the last possible moment--on the way to
the meeting or once we arrive at the destination.In their early
days, mobile devices were primarily used for various types of
emergency situations and for work. In some cases, the device was an
essential element in various business operations or used so that
overseas workers could communicate with their families. The
distance between a remote posting and the people back home was
suddenly and dramatically reduced. People began to share these
devices not necessarily out of economic issues, but also questions
of family and interpersonal dynamics.The process of sharing
decisions as to who is a legitimate partner makes the nature of
relationships more explicit. By examining the economy of sharing,
we not only see how sharing mobile phones restructures social
space, but are also given insight into an individual's web of
interactions. This cutting-edge book deals with modern ways of
thinking about communication and human interaction; it will
illuminate the ways in which mobile communication alters our
experience with space and time.
With at least seven billion subscriptions worldwide, the impact of
mobile devices undoubtedly rivals that of television, radio, and
newspapers. Mobile technologies have had-and continue to have-a
profound influence on every sphere of public and private life.
Unsurprisingly, since their emergence in the late 1970s, mobile
technologies have been the focus of serious scholarly study and
exploration, and, as research on mobile technologies continues to
grow dramatically, this new four-volume collection from Routledge
provides an authoritative reference work to make sense of their
defining aspects and cardinal dynamics. Edited by three leading
scholars, Mobile Technologies brings together in one easy-to-access
set, the essential, 'must-read' Major Works on the greatest
technology of our time. Goggin, Ling, and Hjorth have carefully
integrated foundational texts with the most significant and
pioneering new material to create an indispensable research tool
and pedagogic resource.
Mobile telephony has arrived on the scene.According to statistics
of the International Telecommunications Union, in the mid-1990s,
less than one person in 20 had a mobile telephone; as of 2003, this
had risen to on p- son in five.In the mid-1990s, the GSM system was
just being commerci- ized, there were serious coverage and
interoperability issues that were not yet sorted out and handsets
were only beginning to be something that did not require a car to
transport them.In the mid-1990s, if a teen owned a mobile telephone
it was likely an indicator of an over-pampered rich kid rather than
today's sense that it is a more or less essential part of a teen's
everyday identity kit. Hence, in less than a decade, this device
has established itself tech- cally, commercially, socially and in
the imagination of the people.It has changed the way we think about
communication, coordination and safety and it has changed the way
we behave in the public sphere. The mobile telephone has become an
element in our sense of public and private space and in the
development of our social and psychological personas.It has become
an arena wherein the language is being played with, morphed and
extended.Finally, it is reaching out into ever-new areas of
commerce and interaction. All of this is, of course, interesting to
social scientists.As brought out by Woolgar later, this is, in some
ways, a type of experiment writ large that has engendered serious
insight into the functioning of the social group and the individual
in soc
The aim of this book is to shed new light on this theoretically and
practically significant issue, and questions the role of technology
and culture in social change. It challenges us to reconsider and
rethink the impact of new information and communication
technologies on civil society, participatory democracy and digital
citizenship in theoretical and methodological contributions,
through the analysis of specific cases in Australia, Bangladesh,
Belgium, China, Colombia, Kenya, Netherlands and the United States.
Access to information and communication technologies is a
necessity, and the importance of access should not be trivialized,
but a plea for digital literacy implies recognizing that access is
the beginning of ICT policies and not the end of it. Digital
literacy requires using the Internet and social media in socially
and culturally useful ways aimed at the inclusion of everybody in
the emerging information/knowledge society. Technology matters, but
people matter more.
Has the cell phone forever changed the way people communicate? The
mobile phone is used for real time coordination while on the run,
adolescents use it to manage their freedom, and teens text to each
other day and night. The mobile phone is more than a simple
technical innovation or social fad, more than just an intrusion on
polite society. This book, based on world-wide research involving
tens of thousands of interviews and contextual observations, looks
into the impact of the phone on our daily lives. The mobile phone
has fundamentally affected our accessibility, safety and security,
coordination of social and business activities, and use of public
places.
Based on research conducted in dozens of countries, this insightful
and entertaining book examines the once unexpected interaction
between humans and cell phones, and between humans, period. The
compelling discussion and projections about the future of the
telephone should give designers everywhere a more informed practice
and process, and provide researchers with new ideas to last years.
*Rich Ling (an American working in Norway) is a prominent
researcher, interviewed in the new technology article in the
November 9 issue of the New York Times Magazine.
*A particularly "good read," this book will be important to the
designers, information designers, social psychologists, and others
who will have an impact on the development of the new third
generation of mobile telephones.
*Carefully and wittily written by a senior research scientist at
Telenor, Norway's largest telecommunications company, and developer
of the first mobile telephone system that allowed for international
roaming."
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