Ppt mobile intimacy

Mobile Phone—A tool for intimacyYuan Gaoz3402057

Mobile phone in your life

Questions: what you usually use mobile phones for, and whether you feel close or distance to others when you use various platforms? eg: Skype, Facebook, Twitter/Weibo, games, SMS, ordinary talking/voice

ReadingThe Mouring After: A case study of social media in the 3.11 earthquake disaster in Japan -----Larissa Hjorth

A brief introduction of Larissa Hjorth

“While personal technologies such as the mobile phone are rewriting the relationship between mobility and intimacy, it is important to recognize that the intimate copresence enacted by mobile technologies should be viewed as part of a lineage of technologies of propinquity”

“It is important to contextualize the so-called migration of intimacy toward the public as signposted by social media”

Mobile intimacy: is the ability to be intimate across distances of time and space.

Intimate copresence: is keyed to the personal, pervasive, and intimate nature of social connections via handheld devices, such as mobile photo sharing

Migration of intimacy: is the transformation represent the hijacking of the personal away from a space between people to a subset of social technologies.

Key Concepts

how helpful are social mobile media in maintaining mobile intimacy in times of crisis management?

Japan Earthquake 3.11

Queensland Flood

Discuss question

How do you think social mobile media would help you in maintaining relationships?

The role of Mobile Media

1. Intimacy

2. Copresence

3. Remediation

Mobile intimacy

Previously, the personal relationship were ‘lean forward’

Now, Smartphones, Mobile phones are intimate our interactions and connections

We use it for multiple communications, eg. Email, photo sharing, social networking…

A tool for shrinking a physical distance

Connections with family

Mobile Copresence

The integration of the ‘Virtual’ as a pervasive presence in everyday practice and place

Combine remote and networked relations as a persistent presence

They turn place and setting into a ‘Real/Virtual’ hybrid

Mobile phone using are technosocial practices, merging remote or mediated relations and physically co-present relations.

Mobile copresence

No t just seeing who’s near by

Mobile Remediation

The boundaries between old and new media

New media lies in the way they remediate older media

New media as an improvement and a complete break with old media? NO

Mobile Remediation sets the grounds for conceptualizing the relationship between old and new media not as oppositional but as part of a media genealogy

Conclusion

Mobile social media provide new channels for affective cultures in the form of mobile intimacy, they also extend on earlier media practices and rituals such as the postcard.

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Bell, Genevieve (2006) ‘The Age of the Thumb: A Cultural Reading of Mobile Technologies from Asia’, Knowledge, Technology, & Policy, 19(2), pp.41-57. 

Lloyd, C 2010, ‘Intimate mobile connections: A tool for intimacy’, viewed on 23rd August 2012, < http://www.canberra.edu.au/anzca2010/attachments/pdf/Intimate-mobile-connections.pdf>.

Hjorth, Larissa and Kim, Kyoung-hwa Yonnie 2011, ‘The Mouring After: A case study of social media in the 3.11 earthquake disaster in Japan’, Television and New Media, 12(6):552-559.

Gerard C, Raiti, 2007, ‘Mobile Intimacy: Theories on the Economics of Emotion with Examples from Asia’, Volume 10, Issue 1.