On mobile communication and youth “deviance”: Beyond moral, media and mobile panics

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun Sun Lim
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Spatial Interactions ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Media And Communication

Cautionary voices have pointed to the apparent dangers that mobile media and communication pose for young people in the form of “deviant” activities such as sexting and mobile phone-facilitated bullying and criminal activity. Such incidents have ignited moral panics about the proliferation of mobile media because they are seen to facilitate emergent social/spatial interactions that are either unprecedented, or occurring on a scale not hitherto witnessed. While labelling concerns about youth deviance that is, in some measure, enabled or facilitated by mobile communications as “moral panics” is unproductive, it would be equally myopic to disregard the risks that mobile media can pose for youths in certain circumstances. This article critically examines the panic discourse surrounding youths and mobile media before reviewing research that suggests how mobile media can present risks for youths in particular contexts and milieus.

Youth culture and mobiles

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Goggin
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
New Work ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Media Research

The category of youth has been a strategically important focus in the development of mobile communication and media research. This paper reviews the themes and findings of the first phase of youth and mobile phone research, followed by a phase of new work just underway on youth and mobile media and mobile internet. It argues for the importance of an enlarged, interdisciplinary, and international perspective if we are to advance the field – and our understanding of youth and mobiles – as the technology is incorporated into the larger field of internet, social, and digital media.

scholarly journals Mobile media and communication: A new field, or just a new journal?

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott W. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Distinct Field

This journal represents a step forward in the development of mobile communication studies as a field. This field has been establishing itself through a number of other initiatives as well, including conferences, symposiums, edited books, listservs, and centers for research. Despite this momentum, little attention has been given to defining – and justifying – the field itself. This essay begins by questioning whether there really is, or should be, a distinct field of study for research and theory on mobile media and communication. I then proceed to address this question by highlighting themes in the literature that illustrate how mobile communication is distinct from other forms of mediated communication and information exchange, with correspondingly distinctive social consequences. The essay argues that there are indeed justifiable reasons for treating mobile communication studies as a field. However, like the technology itself, this field is – or at least should be – highly integrated with research and theory of media and communication more broadly.

scholarly journals Age-based Marketing Practices and Young People as Economic Actors in the Mobile Telephony Market in Provincial Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Roy Huijsman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Young People ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Mobile Telephony ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Multiple Relationships ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
Childhood And Youth

In this article, I conduct an analysis of age-based marketing strategies employed by network providers and present insights obtained from mobile phone history interviews with young people in provincial Vietnam. From these data I argue that young people are a perpetual demographic market frontier in the commercialized mobile media landscape of Southeast Asia. I indicate how network providers contribute to shaping contemporary childhood and youth with their age-based marketing strategies. However, young people’s navigation of the commercial terrain of competing network providers is not determined by commercial forces solely but is also informed by various non-economic factors. This article finds that an appreciation of young people as consumers in the mobile phone era requires appreciating the powerful influence of network providers as well as the multiple relationships in which their economic decision-making is embedded.

scholarly journals The Means of Mobile Communication as a Source of Forensically Significant Information

2020 ◽  
pp. 132-141
Author(s):  
Olena KOZYTSKA
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
Mobile Operator ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Flash Cards ◽  
Sim Card

The article substantiates the need to study the means of mobile as a source of forensic information, because the possibilities of this type of communication are widely used in criminal activities, including during training, as well as in the commission and concealment of criminal offenses. As a result of the analysis of scientific works, which highlight the main approaches to defining the concept of «forensically significant information», supported the view of V. Biriukov that forensically significant is any information, regardless of origin and main purpose, which is important for the establishment of certain circumstances, objects and facts in the investigation process, as well as for the development and improvement of forensic knowledge. It is proved that the main types of criminologically significant information are evidentiary and indicative information. The legislative definition of mobile communication is considered, as well as the main components of this type of communication. It is noted that forensic information that arises as a result of the use of mobile means, mostly belongs to the category of digital information. The main properties of digital information and its types depending on the source of origin are determined. It is proposed to divide forensically significant information generated by the use of mobile communications into: information generated and stored directly in the mobile phone, including the phone's internal memory, SIM card and external storage (flash cards) and information generated and stored in the operating information systems and communication centers of the mobile operator. The list of information that can be used in the process of detection, investigation and prevention of criminal offenses, and which are contained directly in the mobile phone, as well as on the SIM card and flash cards used in it, and the telecommunications operator or provider. It is emphasized that some forensically significant information generated as a result of the use of mobile means of communication can be obtained only by conducting such covert investigative (search) actions as removing information from transport telecommunications networks and locating electronic equipment. As a result of the study, the author concluded that the analysis of forensic information that arose as a result of the use of mobile communications can confirm or deny the existence of a number of circumstances to be proved in criminal proceedings.

scholarly journals Temperature variations within a multi-layered skin tissue exposed to the 5G mobile communications frequency radiation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagbir Kaur ◽  
Suyeb Ahmed Khan
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Core Body Temperature ◽  
Subcutaneous Fat ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Skin Tissue ◽  
60 Ghz ◽  
5G Mobile Communication

The 5G mobile communication systems are the “next generation” communication systems. They are capable of providing numerous benefits to the mobile phone users. But, whether they are safe to use is still a topic of concern. This study investigates the thermal safety of 5G mobile phone frequency. A three dimensional multi-layered skin tissue is exposed to 60 GHz frequency from a mobile patch antenna. The simulation software COMSOL Multiphysics is employed to map the electric field distribution and the temperature distribution within the exposed domain. The peak temperature (37.36°C) is estimated in the subcutaneous fat layer of the skin tissue. The temperature peak is very short lived and the steady state temperature is same as the core body temperature. The results suggest that the temperature rise caused by the 5G mobile phone radiation exposure is not capable of causing the thermal burns in the exposed tissue. Therefore, the 5G mobile communication frequency of 60 GHz can be considered “thermally” safe.

Mobile media and communication in everyday life: Milestones and challenges

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Linke
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Media And Communication

The article contributes conceptual ideas to the multi- and interdisciplinary forum for research on social aspects of Mobile Media & Communication. Starting with everyday observations, a review of selected milestones regarding matters of space and presence, sociality and emotion and on multiple dialectics is offered to demonstrate the significant and complex interrelations in the field of mobile communication in everyday life. Finally, it is argued that the challenge of non-deterministic and sustainable research approaches has to be met in order to deepen and broaden future research and contribute to an understanding of mobile media and communication.

Mobile Communication and Children

2014 ◽  
pp. 180-193
Author(s):  
Mascheroni Giovanna
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Smartphone Use ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
Smart Mobile

The shift from mobile phones to smartphones, which integrate mobile communication, social media, and geo-locative services, expands the scope of mobile communication and opens up new opportunities for young people, as well as new risks. However, research on the adoption and use of smartphones among young people is still sparse. Therefore, the consequences of smartphone use on children's communicative cultures and relational practices remain yet to be explored. Drawing on the consistent literature on children and mobile communication and on the findings of preliminary research on younger users' domestication of smart mobile devices, the present chapter discusses the implications of mobile media use amongst young people in the light of the changes associated with smartphones and the mobile Internet.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Government Surveillance of Social Media and Mobile Phone Communications during Iran’s Green Movement (2009) and the UK Riots (2011)

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamileh Kadivar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Green Movement ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Government Surveillance ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Do So

In many contexts, social media has been considered as a group of tools that facilitates people's access to freedom and democracy. But this view is challengeable. In this study, two different aspects of social media are examined. The first aspect examines social media’s use by protesters in two completely different contexts—Iran and the UK. The second aspect, on the other hand, investigates how the two governments, who have very different approaches to governance, exploited social media in an attempt to control the two protests. The main question addressed in this study is: “What are the differences and similarities between government surveillance of social media and mobile communications during Iran’s Green Movement (2009) and the UK riots (2011)?” The findings of this study suggest that social media and mobile phone communications were both important to protesters. Furthermore, this research illustrates that governments monitor the protesters on social and mobile media in different ways, and justify their actions by mainly saying that they do so in order to protect public order and national interests.

ПРЕДУПРЕЖДЕНИЕ МОШЕННИЧЕСТВ, СОВЕРШАЕМЫХ ОСУЖДЕННЫМИ, СОДЕРЖАЩИМИСЯ В ИСПРАВИТЕЛЬНЫХ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЯХ, С ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕМ СРЕДСТВ МОБИЛЬНОЙ СВЯЗИ: ПРОБЛЕМЫ И ПУТИ ИХ РЕШЕНИЯ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Gryazeva
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Crime Statistics ◽  
Correctional Institutions ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Current State ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Executive System

В статье изложен обзор современного состояния теории и практики предупреждения мошенничеств, совершаемых осужденными с помощью средств мобильной связи из учреждений уголовно-исполнительной системы России. Исследованы и оценены изменения законодательства, регулирующего рассматриваемую сферу правоотношений, предложения ученых относительно повышения эффективности борьбы с указанным видом мошенничеств, практические материалы. Обозначена проблема, связанная с отсутствием в данных официальной статистики о состоянии преступности в России сведений о количестве мошенничеств, совершаемых осужденными с помощью средств мобильной связи, что бывает необходимо для проведения научных и прикладных исследований, выработки мер по предупреждению и оценки их эффективности в борьбе с анализируемым противоправным деянием. Сформулированы рекомендации, направленные на повышение эффективности предупреждения «телефонных» мошенничеств, совершаемых осужденными в период отбывания наказания в исправительных учреждениях, в частности предложение правового характера, регулирующее сферу индивидуальной профилактики правонарушений, совершаемых осужденными, и предложение в области статистического учета преступлений и отчетности.The article presents an overview of the current state of the theory and practice of fraud prevention committed by convicts using mobile communications from institutions of the criminal Executive system of Russia. The changes in the legislation regulating the sphere of legal relations, the proposals of scientists on improving the effectiveness of combating this type of fraud, practical materials are studied and evaluated. There is a problem related to the lack of information in the official statistics on the state of crime in Russia on the number of frauds committed by convicts by means of mobile communication, which is necessary for scientific and applied research, the development of measures to prevent and assess their effectiveness in combating the illegal act in question. Recommendations have been made to improve the prevention of «telephone» fraud committed by convicted persons while serving their sentences in correctional institutions, in particular a legal proposal regulating the scope of individual prevention of offences committed by convicted persons and a proposal in the field of crime statistics and reporting.

Ringtone

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Doz ◽  
Keeley Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
The World ◽  
Things Fall Apart ◽  
The Doors

In less than three decades, Nokia emerged from Finland to lead the mobile phone revolution. It grew to have one of the most recognizable and valuable brands in the world and then fell into decline, leading to the sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft. This book explores and analyzes that journey and distills observations and lessons for anyone keen to understand what drove Nokia’s amazing success and sudden downfall. It is tempting to lay the blame for Nokia’s demise at the doors of Apple, Google, and Samsung, but this would be to ignore one very important fact: Nokia had begun to collapse from within well before any of these companies entered the mobile communications market, and this makes Nokia’s story all the more interesting. Observing from the position of privileged outsiders (with access to Nokia’s senior managers over the last twenty years and a more recent, concerted research agenda), this book describes and analyzes the various stages in Nokia’s journey. This is an inside story: one of leaders making strategic and organizational decisions, of their behavior and interactions, and of how they succeeded and failed to inspire and engage their employees. Perhaps most intriguingly, it is a story that opens the proverbial “black box” of why and how things actually happen at the top of organizations. Why did things fall apart? To what extent were avoidable mistakes made? Did the world around Nokia change too fast for it to adapt? Did Nokia’s success contain the seeds of its failure?

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