Title: Moble and society web site
Hello all,
I cam across the following web site that looks interesting
Rich L.
http://www.mobilesociety.net/
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Hi,
Here is one of those this-is-how-it-is-going-to-be-in-the-future
pieces.
Rich L.
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Hello all,
Here is an article from the Washington Post on fashion phones and
women's use of technology.
Rich L.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/02/AR200612
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Hello all,
We have all heard the urban legends regarding the mobile phone that
rings during the funeral. Here is a case where is was actually
requested.
Rich L.
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_headline=and-finally--method=fullo
bjectid=18275460siteid=64736-name_page.html
Hello,
Here is a link to a nice piece on third world telephony by one of my
favorite mobile ethnographers, Jan Chipchase. It is worth keeping an
eye on his blog.
Rich L.
http://www.janchipchase.com/sharedphoneuse
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Hello all,
In response to my question yesterday on the number of text messages
being sent on a global basis, I came across some statistics. In
Wikipedia there is some discussion of the number of text messages being
sent (it is unclear if they also include, for example CDMA messaging and
iMode
Hello all,
It seems that the Ringve museum in Trondheim, Norway is hosting a
exhibition on telephone ringing sounds. The museum is Norway's
National museum of music and musical instruments with collections from
the whole world. The exhibition will open tomorrow. Flettfrid
Andresen (Norway's
Hello all,
The new site at Ning is shaping up. For those of you who like a more
multi-media feel it might be interesting to try it out.
http://mobilesociety.ning.com/
I have also received several e-mails saying that people like the text
only list-serv.
In an attempt to serve both masters, I
Hi,
Thanks for this link, but I am wondering how it fits into the theme of
mobile communication. I clicked on the link but I did not immediately
see any thing.
If there is something in the site that plays into the social
consequences of mobile communication, then it would be good to direct us
Hello Marcela and all others,
The link to the site for the ICA pre-conference is:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/comm/ica_mobile_preconference/
Rich L.
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Hello all,
There is an article on the site 160 characters
http://www.160characters.org/news.php?action=viewnid=2289 that examines
the response time for SMS. According to the article it is based on a
survey, but I can not see the size of the sample, the country where the
data came from etc. Thus,
Hello all,
We are in the process of completing the manuscript for the first volume of the
Mobile Communication Research Series. That volume's theme is The
Reconstruction of Space and Time through Mobile Communication Practices. We
have collected 10 excellent papers for volume one and we are
Hello all,
Harmeet Sawhney has asked me to post the attached call for papers for a
special issue of The Information Society on Geographies of the
Information Society. If you are interested in submitting an abstract
you should send it to Hamid R. Ekbia (guest editor along Nadine
Schuurman) by
Hi,
Here is another job posting that I saw on the AoIR list.
Rich L.
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Hello all,
Here is a call for papers for the 2008 ICA pre-conference on mobile
communication. Please take a look and send us an abstract if you have
the opportunity.
Rich Ling
Call for papers: The global and globalizing dimensions of mobile
communication: Developing or developed?
International
Hello all,
Here is another call for papers. This time it is for a new journal
coming out of India called Mass Communicator.
It gives us immense pleasure that the editorial board of the recently
launched quarterly journal, Mass Communicator', invites contributions to
the January issue of the
Hello all,
Here is a Call for Papers for the 2008 conference organized by Kristof
Nyiri. If you haven't been to one of these conferences you have missed
out on one of the best. The location and the content are always superb.
Rich L.
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Hi,
Here is a position at Northwestern. It might be of interest to someone
on the list.
Rich L.
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Hello all,
Here is an interesting article on the use of jamming devices in order to
silence mobile phone users.
Rich L.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/technology/04jammer.html?pagewanted=1;
ei=5088en=dd1b7df5a0e9f6c6ex=1351832400partner=rssnytemc=rss
Hello all,
The Belfast Telegram has developed a list of 101 gadgets that have
changed the world. The mobile phone and SMS are among them (albeit it
is hard to think of SMS as a gadget).
Rich L.
101 gadgets that changed the world
101 gadgets that changed the world
Hello all,
Here is a job announcement in the UK at Sheffield Hallam University
Please take a look if you are interested
Here is the link.
http://ntmizar.adc.shu.ac.uk/HRD/Vacancies/Academic/Vacancies/ACE54107.a
sp
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Hello all,
The Economist seems to be one publication that has been following the
development and use of mobile communication. Here is an article on
mobile phones and protest.
Rich L.
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1
0219930
Hello all,
I just received this link to the Electronic Journal on Information
Systems for Developing Countries. There are a couple of interesting
articles having to do with telephony including Soriano's on telecenters
and Donner's on the business uses of mobile phones in India.
Rich L.
Hello all,
The Center for Disease Control in the US has taken interest in access to
mobile telephony. They are active in gathering information on who has
mobile (cell) phones and which households have both landline and mobile
phones etc. A link to their report is below. In addition there is the
Hello all,
Here is the call for papers/panels for the 2008 AoIR conference in Copenhagen.
Perhaps we need to take the initiative to suggest some sort of mobile
communication panel.
Rich L.
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Hello all,
Here is a CFP for a book on mobility.
Rich L.
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and
Hello all,
Here is a nice study done by the people at the Pew organization on teens
and their use of social media. It looks at the different forms of
communication used by teens in the US.
The main findings from the study are (and I am quoting directly from the
study):
The use of social
Hello,
Here is a piece on the recycled phone industry. It is a major source of
mobile phones in Africa and in Asia.
Rich L.
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20071227/144818/
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Hello,
Here is an interesting article on one social consequence of the mobile
phone in India, the loss of letter writers.
Rich L.
http://www.livemint.com/2007/12/24005852/A-letter-writer-signs-off-on-I.
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Hello all,
Here is an item from the Washington post on mobile communication.
Rich L.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/22/AR200802
2202283.html?wpisrc=newsletterwpisrc=newsletterwpisrc=newsletter
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Hello all,
The attached link is a little businessy, but the basic core of it
seems to match a couple of other things. I have heard that something
over one trillion SMS messages were sent in 2005. Thus, 2 trillion in
2008 does not seem unreasonable as mobiles diffuse to new areas. If you
divide
Hello all,
The people at Pew have just come out with a report on Mobile data.
Among other things they report that 51% of the respondents said that it
would be difficult to give up their mobile phones. This is more than
the internet (45%) the television (43%) their landline phone (40%) etc.
The
Hello all,
Here is an interesting piece from the New York Times
Rich L.
MUMBAI - In this romantically corseted society, Ashish Chettri is as
close as you get to a Don Juan.
He is an irrepressible flirt: a skirt chaser who claims to pursue three
women at a time, a loquacious utterer of
Hello all,
I came across this piece just now.
Rich L.
One third of Americans don't use SMS
http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/04/one_third_of_americans_dont_use_sms.
html
April 10, 2008 at 3:57 am * Authored by Julia * Filed under SMS
http://www.smstextnews.com/category/sms
A survey out from
Hello all,
I have found links to the special report in the Economist.
Rich L.
Nomads at last
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=109503
94
Working from anywhere
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=109503
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The new oases
Hello all,
It is a while since I have posted here. Sorry for the absence. I will try to be
a bit more prolific with messages. Thanks to my colleague Per Helmersen, I came
across the following video of Jan Chip Chase at the Lift conference.
Hello all,
I have an article that has come out in the December volume of Interactions of
the ACM. The article starts to consider the way that a mobile phone is becoming
taken for granted. The background for the article is a comment made by Jim
Katz who suggested that we become a problem for
Hi Amparo,
There is a paper in the book on texting edited by Richard Harper, Leysia Palin
and Alex Taylor. The paper is by Frøydis Bakken and it is about texting among
deaf persons in Norway. I don't recall the title right off.
Rich L.
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Dear all,
At the upcoming ICA meeting in Chicago I will be presenting a paper on internet
use via the iPhone. Along with my colleague Pål Sundsøy we have compared
internet use for users before and after they got an iPhone. The analysis is
based on an analysis of 4000 users where compared the
Hello all,
I received the attached call for demonstrations for the 2009 ICTD.
Unfortunately the deadline for papers is passed. The keynote speaker will be
Bill Gates.
Rich L.
The link to the Ning site for this is:
http://mobilesociety.ning.com/profiles/blogs/we-invite-submissions-for
We
Hello all,
I was recently at Chalmers Technical University in Göteborg where Erik Bolin
and his group are coordinating the Mobile Barometer for Sweden. They are
cooperating with Japan where Hitoshi Mitomo ofWaseda University is the main
contact person.
The Swedish group has produced a
Hello all,
I see that the latest issue of the International Journal of Interactive Mobile
Technologies has just come out. Their home page is at:
http://www.online-journals.org/index.php/i-jim
Rich L.
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Hello all,
At the ICT4D conference in Bangalore in 2007 Anirudh Krishna spoke about
falling into and out of poverty in the developing world. As I recall he said
that one of the ways that people become impoverished is because of health
related issues. He described a type of scenario where a
Hello all,
This is a great thread. I am particularly interested in it vi-a-vis the
application of health services in the developing world. I understand the issues
regarding patient protection and when the quality of resulting information is
not worth the effort for developing the systems. I
Hello all,
On Friday I was the examiner for Heli Rantavuo's dissertation at the University
of Art and Design in Helsinki. She wrote on the social consequences of camera
phones. The dissertation might be of interest to some on the list. The process
of the dissertation was quite formal, but it
Hello all,
Jonathan Donner sent me this CFP for the a special edition of the journal
Symbolic Interaction and ICTs. In another good lead, Jonathan got the CFP on a
list called Medianthro
(http://lists.easaonline.org/listinfo.cgi/medianthro-easaonline.org ) that
might be an interesting site
Hi Richard,
I hope all is well. Kas Kalba kicks around some ideas in his paper on this. I
can look around to see if I can find it.
Rich L.
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Hello all,
Sorry for the off topic postings. The offenders are banned, but there is
seemingly an endless pool of people who have odd things to say (and offer).
Rich L.
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Hello all,
I was just alerted d to the following site on mobile communication in Africa by
Truls Johnsen. Thanks Truls.
Rich L.
http://www.experientia.com/blog/paper-mobile-phone-access-and-usage-in-africa/
The link to the Ning site on mobile communication is:
Hello all,
I am sorry for the delay. This one is a little older (from December). Richard
Heeks writes about the use of mobiles in development. He has the somewhat
provocative title Mobiles for impoverishment?
http://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/mobiles-for-impoverishment/
Rich L.
The
Hello all,
I am posting a job announcement for the IT University of Copenhagen. We are
interested in recruiting Associate / Assistant Professors in Digital Media and
Design. The specific announcement can be found at the link below
Hello all,
I understand that there was a problem with the link to the ICA pre-conference.
Here is another route to the same information.
This time it is via the LIRNEasia site. They are the group that put the
pre-conference together, and indeed they did a wonderful job.
http://lirneasia.net/
Hello all,
Sorry about the spam. I am banning all the off topic people as they come.
Rich L.
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Hello all,
Charles Ess just sent me a link to the attached article on the handset industry
in Japan. It talks about why the Japanese phones are not more widely used.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/technology/20cell.html?emc=eta1 Rich L:
Rich L.
The link to the Ning site is:
Hello all,
The following job announcement is open at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Please feel free to contact us and ask about details or to apply.
Thanks
Rich L.
The IT University of Copenhagen invites applicants for associate / assistant
professorships starting in January 2010.The IT
Hi again,
I forgot the link to the announcement in my last mail. Here it is.
http://www1.itu.dk/graphics/ITU-library/Intranet/Personale/Stillingsopslag/VIP/Stillingsopslag%202009/Adjunkt%20lektor%20stillingsopslag%20langt.pdf
Rich L.
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Hello all,
IT University of Copenhagen has launched the Fall Call 2009 for PhD Students.
If you are interested, or if you know people who are interested, please
encourage them to apply.
The deadline for applications is Wednesday 7. October 2009, with employment
(yes that is right, employment,
Hello all,
I was recently a member of the examination committee for Rasmus Helles and his
PhD dissertation Personlige medier i hverdagen (Personal media in daily life).
The document is in Danish.
This is a very good dissertation. There is a very good analysis of the
literature, the
Hi James,
Jonathan Donner and I have come out with a book via Polity press called
(surprise) Mobile communication.
http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Phones-Communication-Digital-Society/dp/0745644147/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1255515147sr=8-4
It is pitched at an undergraduate audience.
Rich L.
Hello all,
Here is an article that came out of the Boston Globe on a class at MIT. Nadia
Caidi forwarded it to me and it has also featured on the AoIR list.
Rich L.
Using Cellphones To Change The World
MIT project leads to programs that help health workers, farmers in
developing
Hello all,
Here is another interesting CFP from Charles Ess for anyone interested in
mobile communication and ethics. The submissions can be in either english or
scandinavian languages.
Rich L.
From: air-l-boun...@listserv.aoir.org
Hello all,
I have been asked to circulate the attached announcement.
Rich L.
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Marya L. Doerfel
Email: mdoer...@rutgers.edumailto:mdoer...@rutgers.edu
Associate Professor
School of Communication Information
Rutgers University
DEPARTMENT OF
Hello all,
Again, inspired by Richard Heeks, I have used the motion chart gadget in Google
docs to make an animation of SMS use in Norway from 2001 to 2008 by age group.
The chart at the link below shows the increase in the number of texts per day
that Norwegians sent during this period.
Hello all,
I think this link to the SMS data might be a more open link. Sorry for the
awkward access.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tYSnH1FErajyj5lmWSHJfLgoutput=html
Rich L.
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Hello all,
I have gone back through the last year of blog posts on the Ning site and the
posts on the mobile-society site for an end of the year report. There are 97
posts on the Ning site (not including this post) and about 140 posts to the
link serv going baci to 29.3.2009 (I have not dug up
Hello all,
The Economist seems to be the magazine that is most focused on mobile
communication. In this edition there is an article on Apparatgeist as developed
by Jim Katz. There are some other familiar names mentioned in the article
including Amapro Lasén. Enjoy.
Hello all,
From what I understand, a problem in the Indian health system is lack of a
universal personal registration system. Because of this it is difficult to
keep track of vaccinations, health information, etc. I was interested when I
saw this piece.
Rich L.
Hello all,
IT University of copenhagen has sent out a call for Ph.D. applicants. I am
including some of the call below along with the link to the actual call. Mobile
communication studies is one of the areas that is possible. Please let me know
if you have any questions or if you need any
Hello all,
I am looking for some simple exercises that can illustrate social network
analysis. I am thinking more of the real life versions of social networks
that probabaly also bleed over into the virtual ones.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
Rich Ling
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Hello all,
For any of you in the Greater Copenhagen Area . . .
Rich L.
Day: Friday, March 12, 2010
Time: 13.00-16.00
Location: The IT University of Copenhagen, auditorium 3
At this seminar, researchers from University of Copenhagen, the IT University
of Copenhagen, and the National IT- and
Hello all,
I have just recieved a copy of the book by Hillebrand, Trosby, Holley and
Harris on the development of SMS. It is unique because these are the people who
headed up its development. They give a first person account of where SMS came
from and the process associated with its
Dear all,
A new number of the American Behavioral Scientist on Internet and Community (in
addition to some mobile stuff) has come out edited by Caroline Haythornthwaite
and Lori Kindall. There are several familiar names among the contributers.
The link is:
Hello all,
Here are two interesting articles that I have come across. The first one from
the New York Times that talks about the role of the mundane mobile phone in the
developing world (this is a theme that has come up in many places) and the
second is an article from The Economist about
Dear all,
I am happy to announce that the report Pew Report on Teens and Mobile phones is
out. Amanda Lenhart, Scott Campbell, Kristen Purcell and I were the authors.
Thanks to the folks at Pew and to the folks at the University of Michigan for
their support and funding.
The big news is the
Dear all,
Here are my notes (albeit incomplete) from the ICA mobile pre-conference in
Singapore.
Rich L.
Notes from the ICA mobile pre-conference “Innovations in mobile use” June 21
and 22, Singapore.
Organized by Aril Chib and Tricia Lin (Nanyang Technical University)
Many thanks to Aril and
Dear all,
Here is a call for papers that might be of interest to some of you.
Rich L.
PS. Please note that I am discontinuing use of the Ning site since they are
charging for use.
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL
COMMUNICATION ANNOUNCES SPECIAL FORUM ON NEW
Dear all,
Here is an interesting piece by Clive Thompson on voice calls, etc. It is
interesting that a device that was originally designed to talk into has morphed
into a texting, picture taking, net-surfing, all purpose electronic item.
Dear all,
Here is the call for papers for the upcoming ICA pre-conference.
Rich L.
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Dear all,
I just came across is statistice regarding the use of texting.
Rich L.
6.1 trillion text messages to be sent in 2010
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Dear all,
Many of you have probably seen this by now, but there are two interesting
things. One is the use of location based services and the other is the study on
adult sexting.
Rich L.
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Dear all,
The number of New Media and Society on Mobile Communication in the global south
has been published online. Thanks to all the authors and also thanks to my
co-editor Heather Horst.
See the table of contents and the links below
Rich L.
New Media Society Online Table of Contents
Dear all,
I need to look at mobiles by GDP. Formerly that information was available at
the ITU site.
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/icteye/Indicators/Indicators.aspx#
I am not seeing it here. Has it been changed?
Thanks
Rich L.
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Dear all,
Please note the following call for papers
Rich L.
2012 International Communication Association (ICA) Pre-conference Workshop
May 23 – 24, 2012
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Mobile and location-based networked interactions permeate our world. We no
longer enter the Internet--we carry it with
Dear all,
I am happy to announce the opening of our journal, Mobile Media and
Communication.
As the title suggests we are welcoming scholarly articles focusing on the
different dimensions of mobile communication from a social and humanities
perspective.
Along with myself, the
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