Mobile Communication in Everyday Life - Ethnographic Views, Observations and Reflections

Contents

Introduction: The ethnographic view

Structure

Dedication

References

Places of Life – Places of Communication: Observations of Mobile Phone Usage in Public Places

Introduction: mobile communication and social arrangements

Mobile communication in the public sphere

Observations on the Piazza Matteotti

Behaviour on the piazza

Concluding remarks

References

Photos and Fieldwork: Capturing Norms for Mobile Phone Use in the US

Background

Photos as means of communication

Photos as data collection

Ur-form

Photography of mobile phone use

Strategies: decoys and distance

Mobile phone use photos as data

Presenting the ur-form of public mobile phone use

Contextual factors

Ethics

Conclusion

References

Everyday Contexts of Camera Phone Use: Steps Toward Techno-Social Ethnographic Frameworks

Introduction

Camera phone adoption and research

Research design

Techno-social situations of camphone use

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

Mobile Visuality and Everyday Life in Finland: An Ethnographic Approach to Social Uses of Mobile Image

Approaching the social uses of mobile images

Multi-method ethnography

Ethnographic field experiments

Camera phones and the cycle of ‘moral panics’

Mobile image and telepresence

Ethnography and some methodological challenges

References

Unfaithful: Reflections of Enchantment, Disenchantment … and the Mobile Phone

Unfaithful

Secrecy and subterfuge

Conclusion

References

“I have a free phone so I don’t bother to send SMS, I call” – The Gendered Use of SMS Among Adults in Intact and Divorced Families

Introduction

The use of SMS

Spoken and written language

Gender and electronically mediated language

SMS as a ‘women’s medium’

SMS and the life cycle

Social networking and the instrumental use of SMS

Contact with males

Male attitudes towards SMS

Authenticity via SMS

The ideology of voice interaction

The power dimensions of voice and SMS

Conclusion

References

Another Kind of ‘Mobility’: Mobiles in Terrorist Attacks

Some basic facts

Roles played by mobile phones

Mobile phone networks during March 2004

Explosion-oriented role

Rescue role

Reinforcing kinship and friendship ties

Mass medium role

Conclusion

References

Fashion and Technology in the Presentation of the Self

Rationale

Identity, presentation of the self and new technologies

Mobile communication, fashion and presentation of the self

Aim and method

Results

Conclusion

References

How To Be in Two Places at The Same Time?- Mobile Phone Use in Public Places

The ethnographic work

Co-presence in public places: doing being a stranger

Mobile phone use in public: any topic, anywhere, anyone

Presence modulation

Conclusion

References

Beyond Talk, Beyond Sound: Emotional Expression and the Future of Mobile Connectivity

Preamble

Background

A way forward

Conceptualising emotion for design

Technologies for particular expressions

Stretching channels

The building blocks of expression

Lessons

Conclusion

References

A Mobile Ethnographic View on (Mobile) Media Usage?

Ethnographic media research

Domestication approach

Once again: what are media ethnographies?

Mobile media ethnography?

Urban Mobilities/ Urban Journeys9

Urban Tapestries16

The (im)possibility of a mobile ethnography?

References:

Ethnography, Related Research Approaches and Digital Media

Doing research in the rapidly changing environment of digital media

Some basics about empirical research

Some basics on qualitative research approaches

Some basics about research in order to construct new theories

Some basics about ethnography

Conclusion

References

Authors

Amalia Cianchi

Bella Ellwood-Clayton

Leopoldina Fortunati

Richard Harper

Maren Hartmann

Steve Hodges

Joachim Höflich

Lee Humphreys

Mizuko Ito

Friedrich Krotz

Amparo Lasen

Rich Ling

Santiago Lorente

Daisuke Okabe

Virpi Oksman