Hi, I agree with Katrin. It sounds like a great study. I hope the broader community gets a chance to see the entire document.
Rich L. On 15/11/2010, at 19.35, Katrin Verclas <[email protected]> wrote: > Abhigyan - fascinating! Would love to include your thesis in our mDirectory > on MobileActive.org. Would you share it there (you can upload directly at > http://mobileactive.org/welcome, or send to us and we'll do it for you. ) > > There is a lot of interest in using voice for information services and India > is far advanced there but we have not asked a lot of questions about good > design given the specific populations voice services might be targeting. > Would love to see the entire paper, and am copying MobileActive-Discuss where > there was some conversation recently about voice services. Thanks! > > Best, > > Katrin > > On Nov 15, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Abhigyan Singh wrote: > >> Hi Katrin, >> >> I am replying to an old thread but I feel this will interest members of >> mobile active/ mobile-society groups. >> >> My recently finished master's thesis (title: Design Opportunities and >> Challenges in Indian Urban Slums - Community Communication and Mobile >> Phones) is based on two ethnographic field studies done in urban slums of >> India. There are many interesting practices of mobile phone use where social >> meanings of communication are shared and constructed. For example, the way >> locals use missed call or beeping to communicate. There are examples on how >> even non-communication has a meaning. As the cost of 1 min. of phone call >> cost the same as 1 sms on many networks many participants communicated how >> they have increasingly started to make phone calls. >> >> Further, the communicative ecology of residents clearly shows the prominence >> of 'voice' or oral mode of communication. The information in local context >> is shared, maintained, communicated in oral form. There are many informal >> 'human nodes' who facilitate the community communication forming an informal >> network which helps in addressing various informational needs of the local >> community. Relationships, trust and social bonds play crucial role in >> context of community communication at urban slums in India. Face-to-face >> communication and voice call remains very important. In my thesis I have >> tried to address these issues and many more to identify design opportunities >> and challenges for mobile based community communication services. >> >> You can see/download a visual overview of my thesis research from: >> http://www.slideshare.net/abhigyan1107/masters-thesis-presentation-abhigyan-singh >> >> If you wish to know more about the work then please feel free to write to me. >> >> Best Regards, >> Abhigyan Singh >> LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/in/agsingh >> Sample Portfolio: >> http://www.slideshare.net/abhigyan1107/portfolio-abhigyan-singh >> CV: http://www.slideshare.net/abhigyan1107/cv-abhigyan-singh-5380529 >> >> >> >> >> Edelleenlähetetty viesti alkaa: >> >>> Lähettäjä: Katrin Verclas <[email protected]> >>> Päiväys: 10. elokuuta 2010 klo 1.54.59 >>> Vastaanottaja: <[email protected]> >>> Kopio: <[email protected]> >>> Aihe: Vastaus: [mobile-society] Clive Thompson on the Death of the Phone >>> Call >>> Vastaus: <[email protected]> >>> >>> Richard - thanks for sending this around. However, this is so very >>> American-centric ;) Clive clearly has not visited India much, the >>> fastest-growing mobile market today. With per-second billing there for >>> phone calls, people are chatting away much more so than they are texting. >>> And interruptions are fine - the social tolerance for an unannounced call >>> is very different in other parts of the world. This would be a very rich >>> field of inquiry - the prevalence of calling and social uses of it and how >>> they change with different tariff schemes and cultural contexts. Wonder >>> wether anyone has written intelligently about this aspect of phone use >>> particularly. It certainly makes a huge difference in regard to designing >>> appropriate mobile services! >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Katrin >>> >>> >>> >>> On Aug 6, 2010, at 8:30 AM, <[email protected]> >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/st_thompson_deadphone/ >>>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> >>> Katrin Verclas >>> MobileActive.org >>> [email protected] >>> >>> skype/twitter: katrinskaya >>> (347) 281-7191 >>> >>> A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact >>> http://mobileactive.org >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> > > > Katrin Verclas > MobileActive.org > [email protected] > > skype/twitter: katrinskaya > (347) 281-7191 > > A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact > http://mobileactive.org > > -- > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. 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