mediacenter.org | March 2005
Mobility becomes a cultural imperative. Wireless technologies bring “We Media” to news, information strategies.
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Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe and Misa Matsuda. MIT press, August 2005
The Japanese term for mobile phone, keitai (roughly translated as "something you carry with you"), evokes not technical capability or freedom of movement but intimacy and portability, defining a personal accessory that allows constant social connection. Japan's enthusiastic engagement with mobile technology has become -- along with anime, manga, and sushi -- part of its trendsetting popular culture. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian, the first book-length English-language treatment of mobile communication use in Japan, covers the transformation of keitai from business tool to personal device for communication and play.
The essays in this groundbreaking collection document the emergence, incorporation, and domestication of mobile communications in a wide range of social practices and institutions. The book first considers the social, cultural, and historical context of keitai development, including its beginnings in youth pager use in the early 1990s. It then discusses the virtually seamless integration of keitai use into everyday life, contrasting it to the more escapist character of Internet use on the PC. Other essays suggest that the use of mobile communication reinforces ties between close friends and family, producing "tele-cocooning" by tight-knit social groups. The book also discusses mobile phone manners and examines keitai use by copier technicians, multitasking housewives, and school children. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian describes a mobile universe in which networked relations are a pervasive and persistent fixture of everyday life.
"Start with this book if you want to understand the broadest social and technological impacts of the mobile phone. Although focused on the keitai in Japanese society, the authors provide a conceptual toolkit for examining the effects of emerging communication practices across the boundaries of nationality and discipline. This is not just about a technology or the way it is used in one country. It's about understanding one of the most important ways that twenty-first century lives will differ from those of the twentieth century."
--Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
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26/8 Podcasting, Mobcasting, PSPcasting, Streamcasting... and no convincing definitions yet
All About Mobile | Category: Mobile Content | By editor at 20:56
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Unfortunately the term "mobcasting" is as problematic as the term "moblogging" and I really dislike both*. First because there is this "double entendre" of "mob" for common people and second because there is this "double entendre" for the techies.
Personally I can only support a technical definition of mobcasting, being something analogue to podcasting for mobile phones with a memory chip. And I really have some problems with the wikipedia definition as it is extravagantly blurry by mixing social and technical characteristics in a very loose way.
As for moblogging on the other hand, I try to keep the "historical" definition which is sending email (or MMS) to a website. Whereas I call a wap, i-mode, partnerML-capable weblog a "mobile blog".
For some this may sound gratuitous, but I think we really need some clearcut definitions to understand about what we are really talking.
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Wikipedia: Mobcasting
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See also
* Podcasting
* Blogs
* Smart mobs
* MoPodcasting
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