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Download or read book Social Relations and Mobile Internet Access and Usage in Less Connected Communities: A Conceptual Case Study written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Chayko
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 0791475999
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Portable Communities written by Mary Chayko and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the social implications of having constant access to others through cell phones, wireless computers, and other electronic devices.
Author : Nancy K. Baym
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745656196
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Personal Connections in the Digital Age written by Nancy K. Baym and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of our selves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. This timely and vibrant book provides frameworks for thinking critically about the roles of digital media in personal relationships. Rather than providing exuberant accounts or cautionary tales, it offers a data-grounded primer on how to make sense of these important changes in relational life. The book identifies the core relational issues these media disturb and shows how the ways we talk about them echo historical discussions about earlier communication technologies. Chapters explore how we use mediated language and nonverbal behavior to develop and maintain communities, social networks, new relationships, and to maintain relationships in our everyday lives. It combines research findings with lively examples to address questions such as whether mediated interaction can be warm and personal, whether people are honest about themselves online, whether relationships that start online can work, and whether using these media damages the other relationships in our lives. Throughout, the book argues for approaching these questions with firm understandings of the qualities of media as well as the social and personal contexts in which they are developed and used. Personal Connections in the Digital Age will be required reading for all students and scholars of media, communication studies, and sociology, as well as all those who want a firmer understanding of digital media and everyday life.
Author : Romm Livermore, Celia
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1605661058
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Social Networking Communities and E-Dating Services: Concepts and Implications written by Romm Livermore, Celia and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides an overview of the major questions that researchers and practitioners in this area are addressing at this time and by outlining the possible future directions for theory development and empirical research on social networking and eDating"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Jonathan Donner
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262029928
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book After Access written by Jonathan Donner and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert considers the effects of a more mobile Internet on socioeconomic development and digital inclusion, examining both potentialities and constraints. Almost anyone with a $40 mobile phone and a nearby cell tower can get online with an ease unimaginable just twenty years ago. An optimistic narrative has proclaimed the mobile phone as the device that will finally close the digital divide. Yet access and effective use are not the same thing, and the digital world does not run on mobile handsets alone. In After Access, Jonathan Donner examines the implications of the shift to a more mobile, more available Internet for the global South, particularly as it relates to efforts to promote socioeconomic development and broad-based inclusion in the global information society. Drawing on his own research in South Africa and India, as well as the burgeoning literature from the ICT4D (Internet and Communication Technologies for Development) and mobile communication communities, Donner introduces the “After Access Lens,” a conceptual framework for understanding effective use of the Internet by those whose “digital repertoires” contain exclusively mobile devices. Donner argues that both the potentialities and constraints of the shift to a more mobile Internet are important considerations for scholars and practitioners interested in Internet use in the global South.
Author : James E. Katz
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262263351
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Social Consequences of Internet Use written by James E. Katz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the impact of Internet use on American society, based on a series of nationally representative surveys conducted from 1995 to 2000. Drawing on nationally representative telephone surveys conducted from 1995 to 2000, James Katz and Ronald Rice offer a rich and nuanced picture of Internet use in America. Using quantitative data, as well as case studies of Web sites, they explore the impact of the Internet on society from three perspectives: access to Internet technology (the digital divide), involvement with groups and communities through the Internet (social capital), and use of the Internet for social interaction and expression (identity). To provide a more comprehensive account of Internet use, the authors draw comparisons across media and include Internet nonusers and former users in their research. The authors call their research the Syntopia Project to convey the Internet's role as one among a host of communication technologies as well as the synergy between people's online activities and their real-world lives. Their major finding is that Americans use the Internet as an extension and enhancement of their daily routines. Contrary to media sensationalism, the Internet is neither a utopia, liberating people to form a global egalitarian community, nor a dystopia-producing armies of disembodied, lonely individuals. Like any form of communication, it is as helpful or harmful as those who use it.
Author : Laurent Elder
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857281240
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Connecting ICTs to Development written by Laurent Elder and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, projects supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have critically examined the ways in which information and communications technologies (ICTs) can be used to improve learning, empower the disenfranchised, generate income opportunities for the poor, and facilitate access to healthcare in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Considering that most development institutions and governments are currently attempting to integrate ICTs into their practices, it is an opportune time to reflect on the research findings that have emerged from IDRC’s work and research in this area. “Connecting ICTs to Development” discusses programmatic investments made by IDRC in a wide variety of areas related to ICTs, including infrastructure, access, regulations, health, governance, education, livelihoods, social inclusion, technical innovation, intellectual property rights and evaluation. Each chapter in this book analyzes the ways in which research findings from IDRC-supported projects have contributed to an evolution of thinking, and discusses successes and challenges in using ICTs as tools to address development issues. The volume also presents key lessons learned from ICT4D programming and recommendations for future work.
Author : Keengwe, Jared
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466662859
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Advancing Higher Education with Mobile Learning Technologies: Cases, Trends, and Inquiry-Based Methods written by Keengwe, Jared and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the implementation and success of mobile digital learning tools, with the inclusion of data on specific learning environments enhanced by ubiquitous educational technologies"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Hongbing Hua
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429633890
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Mobile Marketing Management written by Hongbing Hua and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the development of mobile internet technology, people’s lifestyle and consumer behavior are changing rapidly. Nowadays, the products on the market are updating more and more frequently, and the traditional marketing theory and brand theory fail to get with the mobile internet. So, what’s the innovative marketing to take in the new era? Since 2012, China has entered into the mobile era, and became a major country of mobile internet application. The book summarizes the experience of the author accumulated from many trials and errors in management and marketing innovation, so as to form the pattern of management and marketing for the next 30 years. Mobile Marketing Management lays the foundation for the new era with four pillars: service, substance, superuser, space, known as 4S theory for short. In view of the concept of customer-first, it is all about service, and products become productized service concepts. In view of the failure of mass communication, the competition among all services becomes the competition of substance differentiation. Regarding the popularity of self-organization, it becomes a trend to cooperate with people rather than the company to develop the market. In view of the principle of fuzzy market boundary, the enterprises shall optimize their living space and evolve their development space. This book contains numerous case studies along with analysis and creates the discipline of mobile marketing management, providing innovative theories, methods and tools for the marketing of enterprises. Through this book, readers can master the marketing methods of the mobile internet era. They can apply the marketing theory in this book to guide the marketing practice, thus improving marketing efficiency and reducing marketing costs.
Author : Rhonda N. McEwen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book A World More Intimate written by Rhonda N. McEwen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are exemplary studies on the relationships between social networks and media such as television and the Internet, less is known about the social network consequences of mobile phone use during life-stage transitions. This study investigates the roles that mobile phones play in supporting the relationships of young people as they transition to and through their first-year of university in Toronto, Canada. Focussing on information practices during a transition that tests the resilience of support networks, this study queried the extent to which mobile phones play a role in keeping relationships intact, enabling students to maintain a sense of social cohesion and belonging. Data were collected from November 2007 to September 2008 through a longitudinal research design. Socio-technical concepts and network analysis techniques were applied to analyze the ways in which mobile communication is embedded in the everyday social life of young people aged 17-34. Set within the culturally-specific context of urban Canada, the data provided substantial evidence that mobile phones foster social cohesion within intimate relations but provide a more tenuous platform from which to nurture new relationships. First-year undergraduates have integrated the mobile phone into the way they engage with their social networks to a considerable degree, with commuter students experiencing additional tensions in negotiating relationships from home and on-campus. Findings showed that mobile phones were the devices of choice to mitigate feelings of loneliness, with deleterious consequences for the development of new relationships. Furthermore, the mobile phone was a key contributor to a rising sense of empowerment and autonomy for young adults as they negotiated identity transformations during their rite of passage into adulthood. Issues of trust and reciprocity in forming new relationships were mediated through a continuum of social media of which the mobile phone was the most intimate. Evidence of continuous access to social networks has broader implications for how mechanisms for coping with being alone and disconnection are acquired in this generation. Finally, observations of ritualistic interaction practices involving mobile phones may be theorized as small-scale evidence of larger societal shifts from collective constructs of community to that of networked individuals.
Author : Michele Knobel
Publisher : New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
ISBN 13 : 9781433131462
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Researching New Literacies written by Michele Knobel and published by New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an expansive guide for designing and conducting robust qualitative research across a diverse range of purposes concerned with understanding new literacies in theory and in practice. It is based on the idea that one of the best ways of learning how to do good research is by closely following the approaches taken by excellent researchers. This volume brings together a group of internationally reputed qualitative researchers who have investigated new literacies from a sociocultural perspective. These contributors offer "under the hood" accounts of how they have adapted existing research approaches and, where appropriate, developed new ones to frame their research theoretically and conceptually, collected and analyzed their data, and discussed their analytic results in order to achieve their research purposes. Each chapter, based on a substantial and successful study undertaken by the researchers, addresses the research process from one or more of the following emphases: theory and design, data collection, and data analysis and interpretation. Core elements discussed in each chapter include research purposes and questions; theoretical and conceptual framing; data collection and analysis; research findings and implications; and limitations, glitches, and difficulties experienced in the research process.
Author : Mimi Sheller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134189745
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Mobile Technologies of the City written by Mimi Sheller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presence, social exclusion and security across many urban contexts. This book brings together a carefully selected group of innovative case studies of these mobile technologies of the city, tracing the emergence of both new socio-technical practices of the city and of a new theoretical paradigm for mobilities research.
Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522573127
Total Pages : 1732 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Socio-Economic Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 1732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social and economic systems of any country are influenced by a range of factors including income and education. As such, it is vital to examine how these factors are creating opportunities to improve both the economy and the lives of people within these countries. Socio-Economic Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides a critical look at the process of social and economic transformation based on environmental and cultural factors including income, skills development, employment, and education. Highlighting a range of topics such as economics, social change, and e-governance, this multi-volume book is designed for policymakers, practitioners, city-development planners, academicians, government officials, and graduate-level students interested in emerging perspectives on socio-economic development.
Author : Tisah M. Quarnberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (793 download)
Download or read book Community Satisfaction, Community Attachment, Community Experience, Internet Use and Internet Access in Rural Utah Communities written by Tisah M. Quarnberg and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the impact of the Internet on rural community satisfaction, attachment and overall experience. With the geographic dispersion of social networks, the majority of the population has a greater need for long-distance social networking. The Internet has the potential to mitigate distance and connect social networks much faster than letter writing or face-to-face visits. While the Internet is available, to at least some extent, in rural communities in Utah, does it positively affect overall perceptions of community life? This study finds that this is not the case. There is a negative relationship between Internet use and community satisfaction and overall community experience. However, this study also finds that the type of Internet access available within the home has a positive effect on community attachment and overall community experience. The Internet is thus an important element of rural community life and should not be overlooked.
Author : Iggy Pintado
Publisher : ConnectGen Pty Limited
ISBN 13 : 143922532X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Connection Generation written by Iggy Pintado and published by ConnectGen Pty Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and remarkable study of how connection affects our place in society and business and the challenges and opportunities this connectedness presents.
Author : Xu, Xiaoge
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522504702
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Human Social Interaction in the Age of Mobile Devices written by Xu, Xiaoge and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital innovations, such as mobile technologies, have had a significant impact on the way people relate to one another, as well as the way they obtain and distribute information. As mobile devices continue to evolve, it has become easier to socialize; however, these mobile advancements have also made certain aspects of interaction more complex. The Handbook of Research on Human Social Interaction in the Age of Mobile Devices features an interdisciplinary perspective on mobile innovations and the use of this technology in daily life. Investigating the successes, issues, and challenges of the utilization of mobile technology, this handbook of research is a comprehensive reference source for professionals, educators, policymakers, and students interested in the impact these devices have on digital interaction, media, and communication.
Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466661151
Total Pages : 1693 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 1693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In todays interconnected society, media, including news, entertainment, and social networking, has increasingly shifted to an online, ubiquitous format. Artists and audiences will achieve the greatest successes by utilizing these new digital tools. Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications examines the latest research and findings in electronic media, evaluating the staying power of this increasingly popular paradigm along with best practices for those engaged in the field. With chapters on topics ranging from an introduction to online entertainment to the latest advances in digital media, this impressive three-volume reference source will be important to researchers, practitioners, developers, and students of the digital arts.
