Cell Phone Final

Front 1

WEBER

Back 1

o defines power as the chance that an individual can achieve his or her own will, even against the resistance of others
o think of this in terms of domination-does one obey others? And does this become structural?
• Ex. Men have structurally more power than women in society
o Mobile phone can allow people to push back on the bigger power structure that exists and one-on-one

Front 2

Everyday citizen empowerment

Back 2

• By the people for the people
o Trapster
o Shared fight against the police

Front 3

Convergence culture

Back 3

o With digital information- it lives and breathes and can be shared very quickly

Front 4

how does the mobile phone affirm and alter traditional power relations?

Back 4

o Parent/child
o Employer/employee
o Instructor/student

Front 5

State power and surveillance

Back 5

o Can help solve crimes
o Can oppress/suppress resistance

Front 6

Mobile communication, rules transgessions, quasi-legal and illegal activity

Back 6

• laws are formalized and binding rules
o ex. Driving laws
• rules are general guidelines, less stringent
o ex. Don’t text on the first date
• agreements are informal, based on mutual understanding, the weakest
• Rules have been established for mobile phones
o We’ve had to work out when and where is acceptable to use a mobile phone

Front 7

Chicanery and bullying

Back 7

• A mobile phone can be used to prank call, make obscene calls
o Worse now because more anonymous
o Individuals can be called directly

Front 8

Status offenses

Back 8

• individuals in a particular group (minors) are not allowed to do certain things
o ex. Sneaking out, dating

Front 9

Mobiles as symbols or vehicles of globalization

Back 9

• designed and assembled all over the world
• connect people
o migrant workers
status/western symbol

Front 10

two main concepts of ch. 5

Back 10

• Adoption was so quick, so we didn’t have much time to adjust
• Diffusion was much faster than the tv or landline

Front 11

Interlacing of activities

Back 11

• communicating with people at a distance is an everyday occurrence now
• our activities are interlaced- present, mediated, multiple
• engaged in multiple activities at once
• maybe there isn’t time for long-term communication anymore

Front 12

Beniger's Control Revolution

Back 12

• Beniger’s control revolution
o With industrialization came an increase in information to manage all the new processes. Technological tools had to be created to manage all the new information
• Stuff emerges secondarily to manage it- files
o Controlling the information= the control revolution
• Is society speeding up? More information than ever before?
o We are overloaded with information all day long
• Too much communication for our brains to handle

Front 13

Control spillover

Back 13

• Everyone is using phones
o But started in business/industry
o Now part of personal/interpersonal
• Connected presence and real-time social sphere

Front 14

Mobile logic of real-time social sphere

Back 14

• as the car restructured life, is the mobile phone going to restructure our future lives
o parking, fast food, streets
• ex of being a problem if you don’t have a phone

Front 15

Are things going faster or not?

Back 15

• Move to real-time logic
• Expectation that everyone is reachable
• Tempo seems to be increasing
• But can the technology control all this increased interaction?

Front 16

4.4 billion users

Back 16

• Actually, 4.6 billion at end of 2009
• ITU expects 5 billion this year
• Mobile only and mobile first is biggest impact
• There are a lot more phone access than when the Maitland Report was published

Front 17

Mobile convergence

Back 17

• even though there is greater convergence, this book is mostly about SMS and voice.
o Why?

Front 18

Jamming

Back 18

radio waves to block cell phone calls

Front 19

1. What is one way in which cyber bullying is different from traditional bullying? How might mobile phones contribute to this characteristic? (Answer can be one of the following)

Back 19

• Anonymity: bullies can use pay-as-you-go phones or “masquerade” as another individual to remain anonymous to their victims, in traditional bullying victims know the identity of their bully
• Breadth of audience: cyber bullying can reach must larger audiences than traditional bullying through the forwarding of private or sensitive information with mass text or pictures messages via mobile phone
• Perpetual abuse: mobile phones allow cyber bullies to torment their victims at all hours of the day, despite a victim’s geographical location… with traditional bullying, victims are only tormented when they are face-to-face with their bullies