November 1-2, 2005
Organized by Institute for Communication Arts and Technology.
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Mobile Communication and Asian Modernities II
Peking, China
October 20-21, 2005
Organized by France Telecom R&D Beijing, in association with the Research Center for Social Theory, Peking University.
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Mobile Communication and Asian Modernities
Hong Kong, China
June 7-8, 2005
Organized by the Department of English and Communication, The City University of Hong Kong, China.
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Mobile Communication: Current Research and Future Directions (International Communication Association Preconference 2005)
New York, NY, USA
May 26, 2005
Organized by Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University, USA.
Saturday, January 1, 2005
Everyday Innovators: Researching the role of users in
shaping ICTs
Leslie Haddon, Enid Mante, Bartolomeo Sapio, Kari-Hans Kommonen, Leopoldina Fortunati, and Annevi Kant (Eds.)
Leslie Haddon, Enid Mante, Bartolomeo Sapio, Kari-Hans Kommonen, Leopoldina Fortunati, and Annevi Kant (Eds.)
Book Description
Everyday Innovators explores the active role of people, collectively and individually, in shaping the use of information and communication technologies. It examines issues around acquiring and using that knowledge of users, how we should conceptualise the role of users and understand the forms and limitations of their participation. To what extent should we think of users as being innovative and creative? To what extent is this routine or exceptional, confined to particular group of users or part of many people's experience of technologies' Where does the nature of the ICT or the particularities of its design impose constraints on the active role that users can play in their interaction with devices and services? Where do the horizons and orientations of the users influence or limit what they want and expect of their ICTs and how they use them? This book enables a cross-fertilisation of perspectives from different disciplines and aims to provide new insights into the role of users, drawing out both applied and theoretical implications.
Citation:
Everyday Innovators explores the active role of people, collectively and individually, in shaping the use of information and communication technologies. It examines issues around acquiring and using that knowledge of users, how we should conceptualise the role of users and understand the forms and limitations of their participation. To what extent should we think of users as being innovative and creative? To what extent is this routine or exceptional, confined to particular group of users or part of many people's experience of technologies' Where does the nature of the ICT or the particularities of its design impose constraints on the active role that users can play in their interaction with devices and services? Where do the horizons and orientations of the users influence or limit what they want and expect of their ICTs and how they use them? This book enables a cross-fertilisation of perspectives from different disciplines and aims to provide new insights into the role of users, drawing out both applied and theoretical implications.
Citation:
Haddon, L., Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati,
L. & Kant, A. (Eds.)(2005). Everyday Innovators: Researching the role of
users in shaping ICTs. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
The Inside Text
The Inside Text: Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on
SMS
R. Harper, L. Palen and A. Taylor (Eds.)
R. Harper, L. Palen and A. Taylor (Eds.)
Book Description
SMS or Text is one of the most popular forms of messaging. Yet, despite its immense popularity, SMS has remained unexamined by science. Not only that, but the commercial organisations, who have been forced to offer SMS by a demanding public, have had very little idea why it has been successful. Indeed, they have, until very recently, planned to replace SMS with other messaging services such as MMS.
This book is the first to bring together scientific studies into the values that "texting" provides, examining both cultural variation in countries as different as the Philippines and Germany, as well as the differences between SMS and other communications channels like Instant Messaging and the traditional letter. It presents usability and design research which explores how SMS will evolve and what is likely to be the pattern of person-to-person messaging in the future. In short, Inside Text is a fundamental resource for anyone interested in mobile communications at the start of the 21st Century
The book will be of interest to anyone in the CHI, CSCW and mobile communications research areas, as well as sociologists, anthropologists, communications scientists and policy makers.
Citation:
Harper, R., Palen, L., & Taylor, A. (Eds.) (2005). The
inside text: Social, cultural and design perspectives on SMS. Dordrecht,
Netherlands: Springer.
Mobile Communications
Mobile Communications: Re-Negotiation of the Social Sphere.
Rich Ling and Per E. Pedersen (Eds.)
Rich Ling and Per E. Pedersen (Eds.)
Book Description
This book surveys some of the broader issues associated with the adoption & use of mobile communication, & explores developing areas of inquiry. Mobile communications are looked at in the context of other types of mediated interaction, demonstrating the uniqueness of this form of communication & how it is influencing the renegotiation of the social sphere. The book considers how mobile communication has impacted on society and reflects on how it is used (& sometimes resented) in various public & private spaces. It provides an in-depth analysis of specific areas which complement our understanding of the phenomena including:-The psychological dimensions of mobile communication (addiction, proclivity to be disturbed by others' use of the mobile phone), -The linguistics of mobile communication, & -The understanding of mobile communication’s commercialisation. A valuable addition to any researcher’s or professional’s reading material in the area of interaction of technology & society.
Citation:
This book surveys some of the broader issues associated with the adoption & use of mobile communication, & explores developing areas of inquiry. Mobile communications are looked at in the context of other types of mediated interaction, demonstrating the uniqueness of this form of communication & how it is influencing the renegotiation of the social sphere. The book considers how mobile communication has impacted on society and reflects on how it is used (& sometimes resented) in various public & private spaces. It provides an in-depth analysis of specific areas which complement our understanding of the phenomena including:-The psychological dimensions of mobile communication (addiction, proclivity to be disturbed by others' use of the mobile phone), -The linguistics of mobile communication, & -The understanding of mobile communication’s commercialisation. A valuable addition to any researcher’s or professional’s reading material in the area of interaction of technology & society.
Citation:
Ling, R., & Pedersen, P. E. (Eds.) (2005). Mobile
communications: Re-negotiation of the social sphere. Surrey, UK: Springer.
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