Has the cell phone forever changed the way people communicate? The mobile phone is used for "real time" coordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage their freedom, and teens "text" to ...each other day and night. The mobile phone is more than a simple technical innovation or social fad, more than just an intrusion on polite society. This book, based on world-wide research involving tens of thousands of interviews and contextual observations, looks into the impact of the phone on our daily lives. The mobile phone has fundamentally affected our accessibility, safety and security, coordination of social and business activities, and use of public places. Based on research conducted in dozens of countries, this insightful and entertaining book examines the once unexpected interaction between humans and cell phones, and between humans, period. The compelling discussion and projections about the future of the telephone should give designers everywhere a more informed practice and process, and provide researchers with new ideas to last years.*Rich Ling (an American working in Norway) is a prominent researcher, interviewed in the new technology article in the November 9 issue of the New York Times Magazine. *A particularly "good read", this book will be important to the designers, information designers, social psychologists, and others who will have an impact on the development of the new third generation of mobile telephones. *Carefully and wittily written by a senior research scientist at Telenor, Norway's largest telecommunications company, and developer of the first mobile telephone system that allowed for international roaming.
Through an analysis of relevant literature and open-ended survey responses from 2501 Singaporeans, this article proposes a conceptual framework to understand how individuals authenticate the ...information they encounter on social media. In broad strokes, we find that individuals rely on both their own judgment of the source and the message, and when this does not adequately provide a definitive answer, they turn to external resources to authenticate news items.
This study examined whether locally felt weather had a measurable effect on the amount of walking occurring in a given locale, by examining the observed walking rate in relation to air temperature, ...sunlight, and precipitation. Web-based cameras in nine cities were used to collect 6,255 observations over 7 months. Walking volumes and levels of precipitation and sunlight were captured by visual inspection; air temperature was obtained from local meteorological stations. A quasi-Poisson regression model to test the relationship between counts of pedestrians and weather conditions revealed that all three weather variables had significant associations with fluctuations in volumes of pedestrians, when controlling for city and elapsed time. A 5°C increase in temperature was associated with a 14% increase in pedestrians. A shift from snow to dry conditions was associated with an increase of 23%, and a 5% increase in sunlit area was associated with a 2% increase.
Does the adoption of digital media platforms affect the success of environmental movements? We address this question by using a representative sample of environmental non-governmental organizations ...(ENGOs) from Hong Kong and examining the linkages between their digital media adoption and reach and their level of success. Guided by the agenda setting theory, we test whether the digital strategies are related to the shifts in the media and government agenda from 2007–2018. Our findings show that the adoption of digital media contributes to ENGOs’ own media visibility and specific issue salience in the news media agenda, and that the extent of digital reach of ENGOs is also associated with ENGOs’ visibility in the news media. Furthermore, although we find no direct relationships between the digital adoption and the government agenda, we argue that the legislative processes on biodiversity and green energy issues in Hong Kong suggest a pattern of mutually reinforcing interactions between the media agenda and the policy agenda. It is therefore likely that digital strategies contribute to policy changes indirectly, that is, by increasing issue salience in the local news media.
Mobile Communication and Low-Skilled Migrants’ Acculturation to Cosmopolitan Singapore examines the role of mobile communication in the acculturation of South Asian labor migrants to Singapore, ...adopting a mobile phone appropriation model and following a pluralistic-typological approach. While presenting data from a questionnaire survey and interviews with low-skilled migrants from Bangladesh and India in Singapore, it explores how their specific social conditions, including their transient status and low entitlements in their host country, influenced their mobile phone appropriation. It considers the links these migrants established and retained with their countries of origin and residence to identify several types of appropriation and acculturation types among the various populations.
Defining "Fake News" Tandoc, Edson C.; Lim, Zheng Wei; Ling, Richard
Digital journalism,
02/2018, Letnik:
6, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This paper is based on a review of how previous studies have defined and operationalized the term "fake news." An examination of 34 academic articles that used the term "fake news" between 2003 and ...2017 resulted in a typology of types of fake news: news satire, news parody, fabrication, manipulation, advertising, and propaganda. These definitions are based on two dimensions: levels of facticity and deception. Such a typology is offered to clarify what we mean by fake news and to guide future studies.
Mobile Learning Herro, Danielle; Arafeh, Sousan; Ling, Richard
IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc,
2018, 2018-00-00, 2018-01-02
eBook, Book
There can be no doubt that mobile technologies are here to stay. Global mobile traffic grew 74 percent in 2015 alone, with 563 million devices and connections added -- most of them tablets and ...Smartphones. This growth has been 4000-fold in the past 10 years and 400 million-fold in the past 15 years (Cisco, 2016). Mobile technologies permeate the lives of 21st century citizens as mainstays of organizational and institutional day-to-day operations, commerce, and communication and as tools used to support individuals' personal, social, and career responsibilities. In both the corporate and educational worlds, e- and m-learning and marketing with mobile technologies are moving forward at breakneck speed with, in many cases, a blurring of traditional sector boundaries. As neither the technology nor the uses are static, exploring practices and policies that underpin this quickly shifting mobile technology context is crucial for ensuring its intelligent, purposeful, and equitable use. This edited book provides a venue for researchers to share their work on mobile learning with a focus on uses for mobiles in informal settings and PK-20 classrooms, language learning, mobile gaming, leadership and policy issues, and what mobile learning in the future may be. It assists researchers and educators to consider and answer questions such as: (1) What is "mobile learning" today? (2) How can mobiles be used to enable learning? (3) How is mobile learning crossing or connecting economic, social, and/or cultural sectors? (4) How do specific cultural practices with media influence mobile learning (e.g., youth practices, educator practices, parent practices, community practices)? (5) What are policy and leadership implications in supporting mobile learning? (6) What policies, practices, and/or pedagogical approaches are necessary to move forward with mobiles in schools or universities? (7) In what ways is mobile learning impacting education; including how students learn and teachers teach? (8) What will/should/might mobile learning look like in the future? Chapters in this book include: (1) Tensions between the Local in the Global: A Cosmopolitan View of Mobile Learning Initiatives (Judith Dunkerly-Bean, Helen Crompton, and Char Moffit); (2) The Role of Leadership and Professional Development to Overcoming Barriers to Mobile Learning in Formal Schooling (Liz Kolb); (3) Mobile Learning Curricula: Policy and Potential (David Parsons and Kathryn MacCallum); (4) U.S. Tweens Talk About Mobile Learning: Dominant Discourses, Danger, and the Importance of Information Seeking (Sousan Arafeh, Michael Kuszpa, Meghan Weller, and Thomas Mitchell); (4) STEMlandia: Using Mobile Technology to Get 'Em Outside (James L. Larsen, Jodi Asbell-Clarke, Barbara MacEachern, and Elizabeth Rowe); (5) Community Inquiry with Mobile Asset Mapping (Ryan M. Rish, Aijuan Cun, Abigail Gloss, and Merve Pamuk); (6) We Got This: Toward a Facilitator-Youth "Apprenticeship" Approach to Supporting Collaboration and Design Challenges in Youth-Designed Mobile Location-Based Games (Sara Vogel and Judith Perry); (7) Augmenting National Historical Parks: A Pilot Study for Harpers Ferry (Laura A. Gillespie); (8) Piecing the Puzzle Together: Building a Dialogue for Engaging Multiple Disciplines in Inquiry-Based Mobile Learning Through Professional Development (Cynthia C. Minchew Deaton, Sandra M. Linder, and Benjamin E. Deaton); (9) Digital Leadership in Rural Middle School: Preparing Effective 21st Century Digital Citizens via a Mobile Learning Curriculum (Jennifer L. Motter); (10) BYOD in the Art Classroom: A Framework for Studio Learning (Aysenur Ozyer, Kyle Roberts, and Brent G. Wilson); and (11) Your iPhone Cannot Escape History, and Neither Can You: Self-Reflexive Design for a Mobile History Learning Game (Owen Gottlieb).
The smartphone has changed the dynamics of mobile communication in a multitude of ways. Earlier 2G phone facilitated point to point communication between individuals. With the development of 3G, we ...have seen the growth of the mobile internet and all that includes. Rather than simple dyadic communication, 3G and the smartphone have allowed multisided interaction as well as new forms of coordination, communication, consumption, and social interaction. The devices have given us access to news, information, shopping, and entertainment. In addition, they have facilitated threats to our privacy and cyberbullying. This book examines the evolving nature of mobile communication.
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