Dear Katrin and Prof. Rich Ling, Thanks for your comments and words of encouragement! I have uploaded my thesis text on the mDirectory of mobileactive.org. I hope people get to read it. I request mobile-society and mobileactive community members to share their feedback/comments/criticism on it. I will also be available and interested in discussing any aspect of this research or similar works. Please feel free to write to me.
Thanks & Regards, Abhigyan Singh LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/in/agsingh Sample Portfolio: http://www.slideshare.net/abhigyan1107/portfolio-abhigyan-singh Master's Thesis Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/abhigyan1107/masters-thesis-presentation-abhigyan-singh<http://www.slideshare.net/abhigyan1107/thesis-presentation-abhigyan> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Rich Ling <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<mobile-society%[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]<mobile-society%[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]<mobile-society%[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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