Pub Date : 2024-08-08DOI: 10.1177/20501579241269653
Kieran Hegarty, R. Wilken, James Meese, Catherine Middleton
This article shows how dominant actors inscribe certain ideas, visions, and predictions of infrastructural futures for international mobile telecommunications through standardization. It argues that standard setting is a key avenue that brings different (and sometimes divergent) interests, groups, concerns, and activities into alignment around a certain vision of social and technological progress. To demonstrate this, two key stages in the 5G standardization process were examined. First, we explored the path to the release of IMT-2020—the standard for 5G networks, devices, and services released by the Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunication Union. Through the standard setting process, two key visions of 5G—one “evolutionary”, the other “revolutionary”—became highly influential ideas of a future worth striving for. Second, we examined how one technical feature of the IMT-2020 standard—the capacity for network slicing—was realized through the work of partner organization the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). In doing so, this article reveals the processes that define the infrastructural conditions that underpin international mobile telecommunications. It also draws attention to how standardization has the potential to redefine the parameters of mobile media and communication in significant ways.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-08DOI: 10.1177/20501579241269651
Kevin C. Mudavadi, Melissa Tully, David B. Lomoywara
The abundance of misinformation spreading online has precipitated a need to investigate experiences with misinformation in more closed spaces like those found on WhatsApp. Based on interviews with Kenyan adults, this study examines participants’ perceptions of misinformation circulated on WhatsApp and its potential consequences, interactions with misinformation, and decision-making. Findings indicate that participants perceive sharing misinformation on WhatsApp as a means of telling others about what is happening around them. Participants acknowledged the dangers of misinformation spread on WhatsApp but were wary of correcting it because of family and friend dynamics; they were afraid of humiliation or embarrassment; they assumed that the information had not spread to too many others; and they perceived some misinformation as harmless memes.
{"title":"Exploring Kenyans’ interactions with misinformation on WhatsApp","authors":"Kevin C. Mudavadi, Melissa Tully, David B. Lomoywara","doi":"10.1177/20501579241269651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579241269651","url":null,"abstract":"The abundance of misinformation spreading online has precipitated a need to investigate experiences with misinformation in more closed spaces like those found on WhatsApp. Based on interviews with Kenyan adults, this study examines participants’ perceptions of misinformation circulated on WhatsApp and its potential consequences, interactions with misinformation, and decision-making. Findings indicate that participants perceive sharing misinformation on WhatsApp as a means of telling others about what is happening around them. Participants acknowledged the dangers of misinformation spread on WhatsApp but were wary of correcting it because of family and friend dynamics; they were afraid of humiliation or embarrassment; they assumed that the information had not spread to too many others; and they perceived some misinformation as harmless memes.","PeriodicalId":350930,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Media & Communication","volume":"18 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141928752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-11DOI: 10.1177/20501579241260649
Nandhini Priya, P. U. Maheswari
Hedonistic smartphone usage refers to smartphone activities for instant gratification and pleasure; increased hedonistic use is associated with perceived stress, problematic smartphone usage, and smartphone addiction among adolescents. Parents naturally intervene in adolescents’ screen media use through various mediation strategies, including active mediation of safety, restrictive mediation, monitoring mediation, and technical mediation, to reduce potential negative impacts and online risks. This study aims to identify the relationship between parental mediation strategies and adolescents’ hedonistic smartphone use using the data from 447 adolescents and 432 parents. This study also explores the consideration of a new mediation technique, participatory learning mediation, in the parental mediation model. Multiple regression results revealed positive and negative associations between different parental mediation strategies and adolescents’ hedonistic smartphone use, with restrictive mediation having no effect.
{"title":"Influence of different parental mediation strategies on adolescents’ hedonistic smartphone use: Parent–adolescent reports","authors":"Nandhini Priya, P. U. Maheswari","doi":"10.1177/20501579241260649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579241260649","url":null,"abstract":"Hedonistic smartphone usage refers to smartphone activities for instant gratification and pleasure; increased hedonistic use is associated with perceived stress, problematic smartphone usage, and smartphone addiction among adolescents. Parents naturally intervene in adolescents’ screen media use through various mediation strategies, including active mediation of safety, restrictive mediation, monitoring mediation, and technical mediation, to reduce potential negative impacts and online risks. This study aims to identify the relationship between parental mediation strategies and adolescents’ hedonistic smartphone use using the data from 447 adolescents and 432 parents. This study also explores the consideration of a new mediation technique, participatory learning mediation, in the parental mediation model. Multiple regression results revealed positive and negative associations between different parental mediation strategies and adolescents’ hedonistic smartphone use, with restrictive mediation having no effect.","PeriodicalId":350930,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Media & Communication","volume":"52 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141358471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-11DOI: 10.1177/20501579241259436
Justin Grandinetti
Mobile applications are often positioned as a technologically driven answer to navigating the world with disability; nevertheless, apps created for specialized communities designed to facilitate mobility can quickly meet friction that stymies movement through place. Accordingly, the effectiveness of mobile apps is determined by a complex sociotechnical puzzle that includes cultures, industry regulations, public knowledge and legislation, the unique histories of urban spaces, and infrastructural access. Drawing from short-term autoethnographic approaches designed to evaluate the utility of mobile applications, this article provides a critical assessment of using location-aware gluten-free apps to navigate traveling in an unfamiliar location, context, and culture with celiac disease. These experiences serve as the basis of a critical heuristic for assessing how the success or lack thereof of app functionality is predicated on the complex networked contexts in which they are embedded: cultural histories of place, the spatial layering of information, and infrastructures of monetization.
{"title":"Gluten-free apps, disability, and travel: Developing a critical heuristic for the implementation of mobile apps","authors":"Justin Grandinetti","doi":"10.1177/20501579241259436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579241259436","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile applications are often positioned as a technologically driven answer to navigating the world with disability; nevertheless, apps created for specialized communities designed to facilitate mobility can quickly meet friction that stymies movement through place. Accordingly, the effectiveness of mobile apps is determined by a complex sociotechnical puzzle that includes cultures, industry regulations, public knowledge and legislation, the unique histories of urban spaces, and infrastructural access. Drawing from short-term autoethnographic approaches designed to evaluate the utility of mobile applications, this article provides a critical assessment of using location-aware gluten-free apps to navigate traveling in an unfamiliar location, context, and culture with celiac disease. These experiences serve as the basis of a critical heuristic for assessing how the success or lack thereof of app functionality is predicated on the complex networked contexts in which they are embedded: cultural histories of place, the spatial layering of information, and infrastructures of monetization.","PeriodicalId":350930,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Media & Communication","volume":"3 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141357018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1177/20501579241246726
Annelise Pesch, Rachael Todaro, Douglas Piper, Natalie S. Evans, Josh Pasek, R. Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Research demonstrates that phubbing—the act of snubbing someone in a social setting by looking at one's mobile phone—interferes with the quality and satisfaction of social interactions. This article examined how observations of an adult's phone use during a social interaction impact different social judgments. Adult participants (n = 331) watched a 3-min video showing four speakers having a discussion around a table. One speaker looked at their phone intermittently during the meeting (five times for 2–3 s each) while not interacting with the other speakers. Participants were asked to rate characteristics (e.g., attentiveness) of all four speakers and evaluate who they could trust both epistemically (e.g., for knowledge) and interpersonally (e.g., for social connection). Participants also provided information about their own technology use. Results indicated that participants’ judgments, ratings of interpersonal trust, and epistemic trust toward the phone user were significantly lower when compared to their ratings toward the non-phone users in the video, especially among female participants. Additionally, the more participants reported using their own phones during group interactions, the more leniently they rated the phone user in the video. This research provides evidence that overseeing acts of co-present mobile phone use are negatively evaluated. This has implications for how adults view technology use during social engagements.
{"title":"A bird's-eye view of phubbing: How adult observations of phone use impact judgments, epistemic trust, and interpersonal trust","authors":"Annelise Pesch, Rachael Todaro, Douglas Piper, Natalie S. Evans, Josh Pasek, R. Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek","doi":"10.1177/20501579241246726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579241246726","url":null,"abstract":"Research demonstrates that phubbing—the act of snubbing someone in a social setting by looking at one's mobile phone—interferes with the quality and satisfaction of social interactions. This article examined how observations of an adult's phone use during a social interaction impact different social judgments. Adult participants (n = 331) watched a 3-min video showing four speakers having a discussion around a table. One speaker looked at their phone intermittently during the meeting (five times for 2–3 s each) while not interacting with the other speakers. Participants were asked to rate characteristics (e.g., attentiveness) of all four speakers and evaluate who they could trust both epistemically (e.g., for knowledge) and interpersonally (e.g., for social connection). Participants also provided information about their own technology use. Results indicated that participants’ judgments, ratings of interpersonal trust, and epistemic trust toward the phone user were significantly lower when compared to their ratings toward the non-phone users in the video, especially among female participants. Additionally, the more participants reported using their own phones during group interactions, the more leniently they rated the phone user in the video. This research provides evidence that overseeing acts of co-present mobile phone use are negatively evaluated. This has implications for how adults view technology use during social engagements.","PeriodicalId":350930,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Media & Communication","volume":" 44","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141372593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Free-to-play has become a common business strategy in the game market, the associated microtransactions of which have attracted academic attention. In recent years, gacha games have gathered a considerable consumer base in the mobile gaming market, and these players have demonstrated strong purchasing power with regard to additional game resources. Within the framework of parasocial interaction and the investment model, this study explored factors influencing players’ game commitment and purchase intentions. This study used structural equation modeling and moderation analysis to examine data collected from 2,045 Chinese mobile game players. Satisfaction and investment size were positively correlated with game commitment and in-game purchase intention. Perceived alternatives were negatively correlated with game commitment. Furthermore, parasocial interaction was positively correlated with satisfaction, investment size, and game commitment and negatively correlated with perceived alternatives. The results indicate that these correlations were moderated by game genre.
{"title":"Getting hooked on mobile games: Strengthening purchase intentions towards mobile games using investment model and parasocial interactions","authors":"Anson Gong, Yi-Ting Huang, Keren Liu, Kazunori Sugiura","doi":"10.1177/20501579241257907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579241257907","url":null,"abstract":"Free-to-play has become a common business strategy in the game market, the associated microtransactions of which have attracted academic attention. In recent years, gacha games have gathered a considerable consumer base in the mobile gaming market, and these players have demonstrated strong purchasing power with regard to additional game resources. Within the framework of parasocial interaction and the investment model, this study explored factors influencing players’ game commitment and purchase intentions. This study used structural equation modeling and moderation analysis to examine data collected from 2,045 Chinese mobile game players. Satisfaction and investment size were positively correlated with game commitment and in-game purchase intention. Perceived alternatives were negatively correlated with game commitment. Furthermore, parasocial interaction was positively correlated with satisfaction, investment size, and game commitment and negatively correlated with perceived alternatives. The results indicate that these correlations were moderated by game genre.","PeriodicalId":350930,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Media & Communication","volume":"293 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141386317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1177/20501579241248632a
Fan Yang
{"title":"Book Review: Dattatreyan Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media by Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel","authors":"Fan Yang","doi":"10.1177/20501579241248632a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579241248632a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350930,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Media & Communication","volume":"18 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141023189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1177/20501579241238392
J. Humphry, Maren Hartmann, Will Marler, David Lowis
As the study of mobile media and communication matures, an important expansion in focus is to explore the experiences of people and communities living on the peripheries of social and economic power. In this special issue, we ask what happens when the stability of the “home” is pulled out from under our assumptions of mobile media and communication, as well as what happens when we shift our attention to the Global South. Additionally, mobility has a special relation to homelessness and, in turn, to media that is mobile. It enters both as a resource and a liability for the unstably housed in contexts around the globe. Tackling this combination of mobility, media, and homelessness, this special issue asks: What kind of opportunity is a mobile device for those who lack stable shelter? How do different experiences and drivers of homelessness interact with the possibilities of mobile media? What are communities and institutions doing to provide assistance to those at risk of, or experiencing, homelessness through mobile technologies? The articles gathered in this issue draw attention to homelessness as a set of diverse experiences with significant consequences for well-being and unique connections to mobile media. The authors challenge the taken-for-granted focus on the stably housed by studying those without access to the same basic need. We take an international perspective on contemporary homelessness to foreground its global existence and diverse expressions across a range of national contexts, and to challenge the predominant focus on North America and Western Europe in existing literature.
{"title":"Digital disparities beyond the stably housed: Researching global homelessness and mobile media","authors":"J. Humphry, Maren Hartmann, Will Marler, David Lowis","doi":"10.1177/20501579241238392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579241238392","url":null,"abstract":"As the study of mobile media and communication matures, an important expansion in focus is to explore the experiences of people and communities living on the peripheries of social and economic power. In this special issue, we ask what happens when the stability of the “home” is pulled out from under our assumptions of mobile media and communication, as well as what happens when we shift our attention to the Global South. Additionally, mobility has a special relation to homelessness and, in turn, to media that is mobile. It enters both as a resource and a liability for the unstably housed in contexts around the globe. Tackling this combination of mobility, media, and homelessness, this special issue asks: What kind of opportunity is a mobile device for those who lack stable shelter? How do different experiences and drivers of homelessness interact with the possibilities of mobile media? What are communities and institutions doing to provide assistance to those at risk of, or experiencing, homelessness through mobile technologies? The articles gathered in this issue draw attention to homelessness as a set of diverse experiences with significant consequences for well-being and unique connections to mobile media. The authors challenge the taken-for-granted focus on the stably housed by studying those without access to the same basic need. We take an international perspective on contemporary homelessness to foreground its global existence and diverse expressions across a range of national contexts, and to challenge the predominant focus on North America and Western Europe in existing literature.","PeriodicalId":350930,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Media & Communication","volume":"24 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141049660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1177/20501579241248632
Sara Van Bruyssel
{"title":"Book Review: Media Use in Digital Everyday Life by Brita Ytre-Arne","authors":"Sara Van Bruyssel","doi":"10.1177/20501579241248632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579241248632","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350930,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Media & Communication","volume":"20 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141049837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1177/20501579241248632b
Samantha Lorenzo
{"title":"Book Review: TikTok: Creativity and Culture in Short Video by D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Jing Zeng, and Patrick Wikström","authors":"Samantha Lorenzo","doi":"10.1177/20501579241248632b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579241248632b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350930,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Media & Communication","volume":"63 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141049375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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