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The Media and the Mundane: Communication Across Media in Everyday Life

Kjetil Sandvik, Anne Mette Thorhauge, Bjarki Valtysson (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 159 pp.

"This book provides a variety of cases and theoretical insights that touch upon communication across media in everyday life. The cases favour user perspectives and are focused on coordinating mundane activities on smartphones, the role played by apps when exercising, the use of self-organised Facebo ... more

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Projeto radiophone: Manual

Curitiba: Associação Radiodifusão Paraná (AERP) (2016), 17 pp.

"De acordo com a Pesquisa Brasileira de Mídia (PBM 2015), o uso do rádio tradicional caiu na comparação com 2014, de 61% para 55%. Cada vez mais, o telefone celular assume papel preponderante como meio para ouvir o rádio. 8% dos entrevistados disseram ouvir rádio no celular, mesmo percentual d ... more

Manual de telefonía celular comunitaria: Conectando al siguiente billón
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Erick Huerta Velázquez, Peter Lawrence Bloom

México, DF: Redes por la Diversidad, Equidad y Sustentabilidad (2016), 57 pp.

"En 2013 inició operaciones la primera red de Telefonía Celular Comunitaria indígena en la comunidad Villa Talea de Castro en la Sierra Norte del estado de Oaxaca, en un esquema de red privada y utilizando un segmento del espectro atribuido a uso libre. En 2014, la entonces llamada Comisión Fede ... ral de Telecomunicaciones aprobó una concesión experimental en la banda de 850 MHz en el segmento 845-849/890-894 que después fue ratificada y otorgada por el Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Esta concesión experimental tenía como finalidad identificar nuevos equipos para prestar el servicio de telefonía en comunidades rurales apartadas no cubiertas. El experimento, más allá de una prueba de equipos, pretendía demostrar que bajo un nuevo esquema técnico, organizativo y económico era posible prestar servicios de telefonía celular de manera sostenible en localidades consideradas comercialmente inviables. Al finalizar el periodo de la concesión experimental, el sistema contaba con 19 localidades de entre 200 a 3 mil habitantes operando bajo el esquema propuesto, lo que mostraba no sólo su viabilidad sino su posibilidad de expansión a otras comunidades a las que por años les había sido negado el servicio. Asimismo, la puesta en marcha de este sistema había propiciado entre los operadores tradicionales el nacimiento de esquemas que permitían atender a localidades rurales que antes no habían atendido, aunque de mayor tamaño (4 mil habitantes y más). El éxito del esquema dio lugar a un nuevo marco jurídico y a una modificación en la administración del espectro que, por primera vez en el mundo, asignaba una porción de espectro atribuido al servicio de telefonía celular para uso social [...] El presente manual es el resultado de dos años de investigación en los que, a partir de la sistematización de la experiencia, se identificaron elementos esenciales presentes en el modelo que posibilite a otros interesados la aplicación de un modelo similar en otras regiones de México o incluso en otros países. El manual está dirigido tanto a diseñadores de política pública, emprendedores sociales y comunidades interesadas en instrumentar el modelo de Telefonía Celular Comunitaria para atender necesidades de comunicación en zonas apartadas y distantes." (Presentación, página 5-6) more

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Usos y actitudes hacia los celulares

Lima: GfK Perú (2016), 24 pp.

Terminaux et environnements numériques mobiles dans l'espace francophone

Alain Kiyindou, Étienne Damome (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2016), 240 pp.

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Evolución del mercado de telecomunicaciones móviles en el Perú

Rozzana Loaiza Flower

Lima: Organismo Supervisor de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (OSIPTEL) (2016), 82 pp.

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Quand l'Afrique réinvente la téléphonie mobile

Alain Kiyindou, Kouméalo Anaté, Alain Capo-Chichi (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 259 pp.

"Entre hybridation et réinvention, les pratiques communicationnelles liées à la téléphonie mobile offrent des perspectives de recherche stimulantes. Pour les opérateurs de téléphonie, il s’ouvre un réel champ, où d’observation en expérimentation, se créent de nouvelles offres. Au-del ... more

Smartphones, Sex und Social Media: Erwachsenwerden im Digitalzeitalter. Wie Jugendliche in Deutschland mit Smartphone, Apps und Social-Media-Plattformen umgehen

Nicola Döring

Televizion, volume 28, issue 1 (2015), pp. 12-19

"Der Artikel beschreibt, wie Jugendliche in Deutschland mit Smartphone, Apps und Social-Media-Plattformen umgehen und inwiefern dies Chancen und Risiken bei der Bewältigung ihrer Entwicklungsaufgaben mit sich bringt." (Seite 12)

Mobile Information Literacy Curriculum

Sheryl Day

Seattle: University of Washington Information School, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies;Technology & Social Change Group;USAID;Microsoft;Gates Foundation (2015), 46 pp.

"The Mobile Information Literacy Curriculum is a growing collection of training materials designed to build information literacies for the millions of people worldwide coming online every month via a mobile phone. Most information and digital literacy curricula were designed for a PC age, and public ... more

Smartphones

Paul A. Soukup

Communication Research Trends, volume 34, issue 4 (2015), pp. 3-39

"Many of the research approaches to smartphones actually regard them as more or less transparent points of access to other kinds of communication experiences. That is, rather than considering the smartphone as something in itself, the researchers look at how individuals use the smartphone for their ... communicative purposes, whether these be talking, surfing the web, using on-line data access for off-site data sources, downloading or uploading materials, or any kind of interaction with social media. They focus not so much on the smartphone itself but on the activities that people engage in with their smartphones. Though most communication research examines on individual and group usage of smartphones, a few people outside of the more technical journals and books have sketched—at least in overview form—the key factors for smartphone success, what Goggin and Hjorth (2014b) identify as infrastructure, economics, and policy. Apart from the manufacture of the handsets, smartphones require an infrastructure of telecommunications operators, with systems across the world divided between national telecommunication services and competing privately owned companies (Curwen & Whalley, 2014; Feijóo, 2014). Secondly, smartphones depend upon both formal and informal economies, from the manufacture and sale of the phones themselves to the production and sale of the apps to the revenues supporting particular app services (music sales, data storage, on-demand services, and so on) (Lobato & Thomas, 2014). Goldsmith (2014) adds a bit of detail, describing an app ecosystem: “Each ecosystem consists of a core company, which creates and maintains a platform and an app marketplace, plus small and large companies that produce apps and/or mobile devices for that platform” (p. 171). Finally, both manufacturers and operators must negotiate agreed-on technical specifications for voice and data transmission, specifications that governments must approve both locally and perhaps in cross-border treaty agreements (Middleton, 2014). These factors lead to a more complex view of smartphones: not only do they function as communication devices and embodiments of technical negotiations, but they also take on identities as symbols of economic and cultural systems, as “moral objects” (whose value justifies their purchase price), as fashion accessories, and as lifestyle supports (Koskinen, 2012, p. 225)." (Introduction, pages 3-4) more

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New Technologies in Developing Societies: From Theory to Practice

Levi Obijiofor

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 295 pp.

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Handyfilme als Jugendkultur

Ute Holfelder, Christian Ritter

Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), 150 pp.

"Das Phänomen Handyfilm wird in diesem Buch auf der Grundlage eines mit Jugendlichen in der Schweiz durchgeführten Forschungsprojektes untersucht. Im Mittelpunkt stehen jugendliche Akteure, die ihr medienkulturelles Handeln zur Bewältigung und Konstruktion ihres Alltags sowie zur Identitätsarbei ... more

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Communicating War in Mali, 2012: On-Offline Networked Political Agency in Times of Conflict

Mirjam de Bruijn, Lotte Pelckmans, Boukary Sangare

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2015), pp. 109-128

"This article tries to understand the development of political agency in relation to the unprecedented access to new ICT of the Fulani nomads and urbanites in the Mopti region (Hayre), who engage increasingly with new actors and networks present in the war zone: ‘rebels’ and jihadists; the diasp ... more

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Key Issues in the Development of Mobile Telephony in Botswana (1998-2011): An Empirical Investigation

William O. Lesitaokana

New Media & Society, volume 16, issue 5 (2014), pp. 840-855

"The study has shown that as a developing country, Botswana has done well to develop and structurally position the mobile telephony sector for the benefit of its citizens. This is evidenced by the high rate of subscription of mobile telephony countrywide and continuous attempts by the government to ... more

Locating Disaster Communication in Changing Communicative Ecologies Across the Pacific

Jessica Noske-Turner, Jo Tacchi, Heather Horst, Evangelia Papoutsaki

Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy (AJTDE), volume 2, issue 4 (2014), 16 pp.

"According to ITU statistics, around 60 percent of Pacific Islanders had access to a mobile in 2012, compared to just 10 percent in 2006. In many Pacific countries mobile phones are, therefore, emerging as a key element of the local communication systems, and are being be built into disaster managem ... more

The Mobile Economy Latin America

London: GSMA (2014), 82 pp.

"The Latin America mobile market is now the fourth-largest globally, with almost 326 million unique subscribers and 718 million connections as of September of 2014. A little over half of the population in the region have now subscribed to a mobile service, a figure that is expected to reach almost 6 ... more

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SaferJourno: Digital Security Resources for Media Trainers

Manisha Aryal, Dylan Jones

Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2014), 126 pp.

"The six modules [...] are designed to help trainers integrate digital safety and online security topics into their media training. The modules do not assume that the trainer has special knowledge of the subject. While we wrote the toolkit with journalism trainers in mind, we believe that the module ... more

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Phoning it in: Theory in Mobile Media and Communication in Developing Countries

Katy E. Pearce

Mobile Media & Communication, volume 1, issue 1 (2014), pp. 76-82

"As 75 percent of the world’s mobile subscriptions are in developing countries, studies of use patterns are essential to broader understanding. However, scholars should engage with existing theory and literature in order to operate within a framework and expand readership. Rigorous and ethical res ... more

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The Handbook of Mobile Market Research: Tools and Techniques for Market Researchers

Ray Poynter, Navin Williams, Sue York

Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley (2014), xiii, 295 pp.

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