Why "greedy"? Such a loaded adjective, and we don't know motivation. Why not just "heavy users" or "very heavy users".
Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology University of Toronto 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 twitter: barrywellman secondlife: wikiwarrior swords Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 [email protected] wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:29:28 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [mobile-society] Re: The rise of mobile divides > > Hi Katrin > > I agree that it is simple. However, it is aimed at the guys who think that > the wole world owns iPhones and that mobile internet is on the virge of > becoming the next big thing. > > There are all kinds of different things that are going on. There are super > users in unexpected places just as some of the supposed super users are not > that super after all. I just did an anaysis of IP traffic in Norway. It turns > out that the top 1% of users use 80% of the capacity and that 40% of the > people use none at all. This is almost perfect inequality. Roughly translated > there are a very few very greedy users (bit torent users?), a middle range of > people that down load a little bit (reading the news, etc.) and there is a > large group that does not use it at all. The odd thing is that the low and > the moderate users are, in some ways, paying for the use of the greedy users. > At the same time, the marketing guys are going around talking about the huge > marketing success of mobile internet. If you lie with the stats by taking the > mean value, then it looks like all of us are using a moderatly large amount > of IP traffic when in reality it is just the greedy guys who are eating the > whole cake. (are you picking up on my increasing engagement in this argument?) > > Thus, it is not as simple a picture as I indicate, but I think that it is > important to say that there are different types of users and that not > everyone is going to turn into a super user. > > Keep the examples (and the Mexian ringing tone articles) coming. > > Rich L. > > From: Katrin Verclas [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 6. april 2009 07:12 > To: Ling Richard Seyler (R&I) > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [mobile-society] The rise of mobile divides > > HI, Richard - Interesting paper but too simple, the way you describe it > right now, I think. See, for example, this article in the NYT today about > Mexican music on mobiles, and the use of mobiles in immigrant communities in > the US: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/arts/music/05kun.html?_r=3. Will > keep looking for other, sub-culture or specific cultural uses of mobiles. My > own observations in India, in particular, shows that there is a lot more > there than your paper indicates -- lots of different types of users that are > far more interesting than the "soccer parent' user :) > > Be well -- and I'll send you more! > > Katrin > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:28 PM, > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am publishing a short paper on the Ning site where I develop the idea of > mobile divides. > > I am interested in the differences between the power users in advanced > countries that use a lot of IP stuff, the user in the third world and the > sort of soccer mom/dad user that is somewhere in the middle. > > A lot of attention goes to the first group but the real base of use is often > among the other two. I am interested in any comments. > > The link to the posting is: > http://mobilesociety.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-rise-of-mobile-divides > > There is a further link to the paper there. > > Rich L. > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
