MOBILE PHONE USE AS MEDIA

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YUSRI YUSOF (8969257)

ISMAH ISMAIL (8957910)

SOCY 20241NEW MEDIA

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OUTLINE

• Brief Introduction

• Case study: The mobile phone use as media

• Real life examples

• Conclusion

• Q&A

EVOLUTION ON MOBILE PHONES

1906 1973 1979 1982 1998 2001 2007 2008 2009 2013

US PATENT FOR WIRELESS

PHONES

FIRST MOBILE PHONE CALL

1ST COMMERCIAL MOBILE PHONE NOKIA

1ST MOBILE CONTENT

3G WEB THROUGH MOBILE HANDSET

SOCIAL MEDIA

HERE WE ARE!iPHONE

THE MOBILE PHONE AS MEDIACASE STUDY:

Utopian Dystopian

The ability to ‘synchronize everyday life’ (Ling, 2001).

The ‘scope for interactivity and user customization of services’ is markedly increased (Flew, 2002).

‘Once they [3G mobiles] have lost the last image that conceptually linked them to their original function, it is obvious that their value will also become more abstract and further removed from the function for which they were intended’ (Strocchi, 2003).

Represented social status & self-construction (Poster, 2004).

‘longing for fulfilment in apocalypse’ (Milojevic, 2001; Inayatullah, 2001).

Health Issue (Hockingand Westerman, 2002; Pereira and Edwards, 2000; Kimata, 2003).

THE MOBILE PHONE AS MEDIA

Positive view

• Deaf community • Plant (2003)

• Geser (2003)

Negative view

• Geser (2003)

• McKean (2004)

• Rheingold (2002)

• Tremlett (2004)

• Fortunati (2000)

• Ling (2001)

CASE STUDY:

How mobile life impact our life

Negative

• Geser (2003) identifies the mobile’s capacity to ‘weaken the control of

formal institutions over their member’s behaviour’ as they are able to

interrupt or alternate their roles ‘anywhere, anyplace’.

• McKean (2004) speculates as to whether 3G phones will increase the

networking capabilities of criminals and paedophiles in particular.

• Rheingold’s (2002) ‘smart mobs’, which he defines as any group that

uses mobile communications to organize collective action.

• Tremlett (2004) The 2004 Madrid train bombings were attributable to

mobile phones being used as detonators, with the retailers of one phone

in an unexploded package being arrested shortly after the event.

• Fortunati’s (2000) concept of ‘nomadic intimacy’ expresses how the

mobile makes it possible for us to remain inserted in personal networks

while travelling, but at the cost of ‘directly experiencing everything the

social space can offer’.

• Ling (2001) describes the disturbance of the public sphere (forced

eavesdropping) as ‘balkanisation’ of space.

Negative

• The deaf community now has a level playing field with the

hearing community.

• SMS represents the first communication technology that has

broken down the barriers between deaf and hearing individuals’.

• Plant (2003) notes how mobiles allow for increasingly efficient

response and organization by groups to marshal political

resistance.

• Geser (2003) …able to blend home, leisure and work more easily,

Positive

Examples of How Mobile Phone Impact Our Daily Life

Twitter

Online newspaper

TV apps in mobile phone

BBC iplayer Netflix

CONCLUSION• Mobile phone plays major role in

human life.

• Mobile phone have both positive and negative implications – however it depends on the users/situation.

• Mobile phone act as a mediator that transformed the media industry in this era thus shifting from the traditional media to social media and from print industry to electronic format.

REFERENCES

• E Siapera 2012 Chapter 8 Understanding New Media. Sage.

• Gordon J., 2002 The mobile phone: an artefact of popular culture and a tool of the public sphere. Convergence: The international journal of research into new media technologies 8 15-26

• The Telegraph, (2012). Children-no-longer-need-facts-because-they-can-look-them-up-on-smartphone-claim-teachers. [online] Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9186182/Children-no-longer-need-facts-because-they-can-look-them-up-on-smartphone-claim-teachers.html [Accessed `19 October 2013].

 • The Telegraph, (2013). Budget iPhone 5 will be plastic and 'ready for China’. [online] Available at: http://

www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9833610/Budget-iPhone-5-will-be-plastic-and-ready-for-China.html [Accessed 19 October 2013].

 • The Telegraph, (2013). Fujitsu smartphone can check your pulse. [online] Available at: http://

www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/9937401/Fujitsu-smartphone-can-check-your-pulse.html [Accessed 19 October 2013].

 • The Telegraph, (2010). Making a call on a mobile? Surely not. [online] Available at: http://

www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/7941655/Making-a-call-on-a-mobile-Surely-not.html [Accessed 19 October 2013]

• The Telegraph, (2013). Entrepreneurial DNA holds key to digital evolution. [online] Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/10374934/Entrepreneurial-DNA-holds-key-to-digital-evolution.html [Accessed 19 October 2013].