Hi everyone,

Sharing 2 papers on mobile communications. I have included the
abstracts below and the citations/doi.

Thanks,
Rhonda

1. McEwen, Rhonda and Scheaffer, Kathleen (2012). Orality in the
library: How mobile phones challenge our understandings of
collaboration in hybridized information centers, Library and
Information Science Research, ISSN 0740-8188, 04/2012, Volume 34,
Issue 2, pp. 92 - 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2011.08.001

Abstract: The domestication of mobile phones and a changing
articulation of academic libraries as collaborative spaces present an
opportunity for digitally-mediated collaboration—or do they? The
intersection between the academic library's dynamic space and
governing policies and guidelines, and the omnipresent mobile phone
user is examined. Data was collected through document analysis and 46
ethnographic observations and interviews. How historical precedents,
communication incongruence, and a lack of user studies can result in
inconsistencies between academic libraries' visions and users'
information practices is illustrated. Recommendations for policy-
makers and managers of hybridized information centers are made.
Specifically, guidelines regarding mobile phones should be revised to
reflect a more in-depth understanding of mediated collaboration
through mobile phone use.

2. McEwen, Rhonda (2011). Tools of the trade: Drugs, law and mobile
phones in Canada
New Media & Society, 13 (1), pg. 134-150 . 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444810365306

Abstract: Observations of mobile phone use suggest that this medium
facilitates existing social practices when used as a tool within, and
at times outside, socially determined definitions of ‘normal’ or
‘deviant’ behavior. Written from a social construction of technology
perspective, this article examines the mobile phone as a contemporary
technology in the context of its use in illegal drug-dealing and the
law enforcement of those practices in Canada. The relationship between
illegal drug-dealing and law enforcement responses is critically
analyzed, highlighting the way groups representing both sides utilize
mobile phone technologies to achieve their divergent goals. Existing
constitutional guidelines employed by law enforcement to support the
use of mobile and wireless technologies for surveillance are
considered, particularly considering the notion of privacy. The
article concludes by challenging assumptions that mobile phones are
primarily personal artifacts, and instead describes the inherently
social nature of mobile communications, thereby calling for a re-
conceptualization of current ideology on privacy.

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