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Mobile Phone Safety for Children: Current Research, Issues and Future Trends sponsored by GSMA and the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI).
I attended the seminar on Mobile Phone Safety for Children in London. Among other people there were Sonia Livingstone of LSE and Vicki Nash from OII. I presented some issues associated with mobile phone use and children/teens. The first point I tried to make is that the mobile phone is a very important device for teens. I have made a similar point in the piece I wrote for Gerard Goggin and Larisa Hjorth's book namely that the mobile phone ties the teen to their peers and in this way… Continue
Posted by Rich Ling on June 18, 2009 at 11:35am
Mobile tech articles in this weeks edition of the Economist
There is a nice section in the latest edition of The Economist on new technology. It is in the Technology Quarterly section of the magazine. When thinking of mobile technology, there are several articles that are of interest. These include an article on the use of mobile communication to assist in reminding people to take medicines, “the connected car,” the mobile phone as a sensor, and an article on Marty Cooper, the fellow at Motorola who pushed for the development of the first mob… Continue
New book by Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner
Jonathan Donner and I have just published a new book. It is entitled Mobile Communications and it is a part of the Polity series on ICTs and society.
The blirb on the back says:
With staggering swiftness, the mobile phone has become a fixture of daily life in almost every society on earth. In 2007, the world had over 3 billion mobile subscriptions. Prosperous nations boast of having more subscriptions than people. In the developing world, hundreds of millions of people who could ne… Continue
Posted by Rich Ling on June 2, 2009 at 10:25pm
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Can anyone help, any materials (journal, web etc) would be great.
Many thanks in advance.
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Posted by Nines on May 31, 2009 at 9:02pm
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AJC ‘Placing Mobile Communication’ special issue announcement
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Dear Mobile Society colleagues,
We are happy to announce the latest issue of the Australian Journal of Communication: ‘Placing Mobile Communications’. The ‘Placing Mobile Communication’ special issue brings together researchers undertaking work on mobiles in Australian and New Zealand. Please find the Table of Contents below. We would like to thank all authors who responded to the call for papers and the reviewers.
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