Ruizhe Ling
Biographic Data
| ID | 135657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruizhe Ling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruizhe |
| FAMILY NAME | Ling |
| SIGNATURE | LING R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6336-4050 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 359 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Mobile Media and Communication as a Post-Field? Introduction to a Special Issue on Theory
Mobile Media and Communication (MMC) is a theoretically diverse field which lacks a single shared theoretical and methodological paradigm. Much like communication more broadly, MMC can therefore be understood as a post-field. In this Introduction to the special issue on “Mobile Communication Theory: The State of the (Post-)Field,” we describe the theoretical landscape reflected in the contributions to the special issue. The contributions span and…
Individual Addressability Comes Full Circle with Mobile AI: From People to Data to Agents
Through the lens of agents, this article situates mobile artificial intelligence (mobile AI) in relation to earlier and ongoing developments with mobile media and communication, including mobile telephony and mobile broadband. With mobile telephony, individuals are directly addressable to one another (“individual addressability”), whereas with mobile broadband, data are addressable to individuals anytime, anywhere (“data addressability”). With mo…
Navigating “I” and “We”: Coupled Identity and Spousal Influence in the Physical Activity of Older Adults
Opening the black box of fitness tracking: Understanding the mechanisms of feedback in motivating physical activity among older Singaporeans
This paper examines how older adults interact with fitness trackers and how that interaction influences their physical activity. We carried out qualitative interviews with 22 individuals between the ages of 55 and 72 who had used fitness trackers as part of a six-week field experiment investigating the effects of feedback from fitness trackers and the social influence of their spouses. From their comments, we derived an explorative process model …
Hybrid Space revisited: From concept toward theory
Hybrid Spaces emerge from the blending of physical and digital spaces produced by the mobility of people communicating via mobile technologies. This articulation of Hybrid Space has influenced scholars of communication, media, mobilities, and other fields, as evidenced by our analysis of literature. Over the last two decades, however, Hybrid Spaces have morphed and adapted to our changing sociotechnical landscape. This article updates the concept…
Comparative analysis of the growth and development differences of children and adolescents between developed and undeveloped urban and rural areas in China
OBJECTIVES: Our study use the height and weight data of Chinese students aged 7-18 years from 1985 to 2014 to investigate the inequality and changing trend of height and weight of children and adolescents in different regions. METHODS: Our study extracted data from the 1985, 2000, and 2014 Chinese National Survey on Students' Constitution and Health (CNSSCH) for a comparative analysis of the height and weight of children and adolescents aged 7-18…
The origins of mobile communication research
What You See and What You Think: Exploring News-ness Perceptions and Media Repertoires in Singapore
This research explores the concept of “news-ness,” namely, the audience definition of news characteristics that constitute news. We assess how Singapore audiences define news (i.e., news-ness) and examine how such definitions are shaped by how audiences access news (i.e., news media repertoires). Using focus group discussions and surveys, we identified five repertoires (news omnivores, news avoiders, computer and smartphone users, traditional med…
Covert resistance beyond #Metoo: Mobile practices of marginalized migrant women to negotiate sexual harassment in the workplace
Our study gives voice to socially marginalized women from the Global South whose struggles with sexual harassment are largely invisible in the #Metoo movement. Employing an ethnographic approach, this study examines the digitized resistance of Chinese rural–urban migrant women (n = 41) against sexual harassment faced in their workplaces. We adopt the lens of intersectionality to reveal the nuanced impacts of mobile communication practices negotia…
Celebrating 10 years of Mobile Media & Communication
This Is Not a Drill: Mobile Telephony, Information Verification, and Expressive Communication During Hawaii's False Missile Alert
On Saturday, 13 January 2018, residents of Hawaii received a chilling message through their smartphones. It read, in all caps, BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. The message was mistakenly sent, but many residents lived in a threatened state of mind for the 38 minutes it took before a retraction was made. This study is based on a survey of 418 people who experienced the alert, recollecting the…
News: Mobiles, Mobilities and Their Meeting Points
In the field of quantum mechanics (at least in its more accessible and demotic form), Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle states that the more precisely the position of a particle can be established, the less possible it is to determine the direction in which it is moving; while the greater certainty with which the trajectory of a particle can be determined, the less precisely one can say where it is. Journalism finds itself in an analogous situat…
Confirmation Bias in the Era of Mobile News Consumption: The Social and Psychological Dimensions
Confirmation bias is the predisposition to only consume the news, or what appears to be news, that confirms our pre-existing attitudes and beliefs, e.g. anti-vaxxers reading only anti-vaccination material. This plays out, for example, in reading only the news/postings that fit our political or social leaning. It is done to avoid cognitive dissonance as well as eventual disfavor from our social network. Confirmation bias is an important element su…
Mobile phones and patient referral in Thai rural healthcare: A structuration view
This study employs a structuration view to examine how the use of mobile phones by healthcare staff affected, changed, or modified the existing patient referral system in rural Thailand. Findings from the interviews (n = 31) indicate that healthcare staff used their personal mobile phones for patient referral because they could quickly reach specific personal contacts in the hospitals and provide nuanced contextual information that was not possib…
Too good to be true, too good not to share: The social utility of fake news
While fake news has been widely reviled as an attack on democracy, less has been written about its threat to interpersonal relationships. Social networks have become increasingly popular for sharing news and as a result have also offered fertile ground for the spread of fake news. This paper considers the impact of the latter on the former, particularly in circumstances where the sharer either does not know or does not suspect that the news they …
Telling lies together? Sharing news as a form of social authentication
The increasingly assertive position of social media as a news source means that news audiences can no longer depend on traditional journalists for information verification. Instead, they must determine the news credibility on their own. The majority of information credibility studies have considered news audiences’ information evaluation as a purely cognitive endeavor, implying that individuals can arrive at valid information without social valid…
Valuable information on recyclable waste: Mobile phones and the rationalization of the scrap-handling sector in Myanmar
This article examines how the scrap-handling/recycling system in Myanmar has adopted mobile telephony in its day-to-day operations, and how this has led to a rationalization of the sector. It focuses on work processes, information and price retrieval, risk management, efficiency, and coordination. Scrap-handlers and ragpickers in four townships of Myanmar were interviewed in three phases of fieldwork, and their mobile phone use was also observed.…
Introduction to the special section “Platforms, precarity, and entrepreneurship: Mobile communication in Asia”
10.1080/01972243.2020.1805245
Phubbing behavior in conversations and its relation to perceived conversation intimacy and distraction: An exploratory observation study
The Gift of News: Phatic News Sharing on Social Media for Social Cohesion
Growing interest with the practice of sharing news stories through social media has driven a move in scholarship away from the “news” aspect and towards the “sharing” aspect. As more news is distributed using social media, its use as social glue becomes increasingly significant. Accordingly, this paper places news sharing in the sociological tradition of gift-giving studies, viewing it as a manifestation of care, above and beyond the informationa…
What Is Computer-Mediated Communication?”—An Introduction to the Special Issue
At a time when nearly all social activities could be, and likely are, mediated in some ways by some forms of computing technology, what should be the focus of CMC research? How do we theorize and study computer-mediated (or should we say digitally-mediated) communication when the topics of our research—the technology, the concepts and processes of mediation, our sense of what constitutes communication, as well as the theories and methods used to …
Diffusion of disinformation: How social media users respond to fake news and why
This exploratory study seeks to understand the diffusion of disinformation by examining how social media users respond to fake news and why. Using a mixed-methods approach in an explanatory-sequential design, this study combines results from a national survey involving 2501 respondents with a series of in-depth interviews with 20 participants from the small but economically and technologically advanced nation of Singapore. This study finds that m…
Popular Digital Imagination: Grass-Root Conceptualization of the Mobile Phone in the Global South
In the realm of digital technologies, imagination is often evoked to describe the creative quality possessed by visionary technology developers. In contrast, we describe the idea of gaining a “digital imagination” as a process through which the non-elite—here, potential and new users of digital technologies in Myanmar and rural China—envision something that is not yet part of their lives and thus begin appropriating it. The digital imagination is…
Safety, sensemaking, and solidarity
On July 22, 2011, at 15:26, a radical right-wing Islamophobe, Anders Behring Breivik, detonated a bomb in the city center of Oslo, Norway, and then killed 69 people and wounded 60 others before the police were able to arrest him on the island of Utøya. This chapter analyzes anonymized mobile phone traffic data in Oslo and around Norway to understand Norwegian mobile phone communication behaviors and see if and how people activated their social ne…
Mobile Media and Social Space: How Anytime, Anyplace Connectivity Structures Everyday Life
Using Giddens’ (1984) structuration theory we examine how social structures in mobile communication technologies shape the everyday life of individuals, thereby re-shaping power dynamics that underlie the social organization of society. We argue that the anytime, anyplace connectivity afforded by mobile communication technologies structures society by imposing a network, social and personal logic. We discuss how each logic both reproduces and cha…
Measuring Mobile Phone Use: Self-Report Versus Log Data
In this paper we examine how well two types of self-report measures adequately operationalize frequency of mobile phone use by comparing them to server log data. Our self-report measures of voice and SMS text messaging activity are drawn from a nationally representative survey of adults living in Norway. Our results show that self-report measures only correlate moderately to the server log data. This result poses serious epistemological implicati…
Diffusion of disinformation: How social media users respond to fake news and why
This exploratory study seeks to understand the diffusion of disinformation by examining how social media users respond to fake news and why. Using a mixed-methods approach in an explanatory-sequential design, this study combines results from a national survey involving 2501 respondents with a series of in-depth interviews with 20 participants from the small but economically and technologically advanced nation of Singapore. This study finds that m…
Connection Cues: Activating the Norms and Habits of Social Connectedness
Journal Article Connection Cues: Activating the Norms and Habits of Social Connectedness Get access Joseph B. Bayer, Joseph B. Bayer 1Communication Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scott W. Campbell, Scott W. Campbell 1Communication Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Mobile Media and Social Space: How Anytime, Anyplace Connectivity Structures Everyday Life
Using Giddens’ (1984) structuration theory we examine how social structures in mobile communication technologies shape the everyday life of individuals, thereby re-shaping power dynamics that underlie the social organization of society. We argue that the anytime, anyplace connectivity afforded by mobile communication technologies structures society by imposing a network, social and personal logic. We discuss how each logic both reproduces and cha…
Mobile communication in the global south
Mobile communication has become a common phenomenon in most parts of the world. There are indeed more mobile subscriptions than there are people who use the internet. For many people outside of the metropolitan areas of Europe and North America, this is literally their first use of electronically mediated interaction. This preface to the special issue of New Media & Society examines mobile communication in a global context. Through an overview of…
Texting as a life phase medium
SMS has grown to be a common form of interaction in Norwegian society. Its adoption started among teens but has since been taken into use by other age groups. However, the use patterns for teens seem to be different from those of older users. This paper examines the assertion that SMS is a life phase and not a cohort phenomenon. That is, its use is more intense among teens and more moderate among older age groups. Data for the analysis comes from…
Mobility and Locative Media: Mobile Communication in Hybrid Spaces
Mobility and Locative MediaMobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic, and political practices.Especially as mobile media become seamlessly integrated into transportation networks, navigating urban spaces, and connecting with social networks while on the move, researchers need new approaches and methods to bring together mobilities with mobile communication and locative media.Mobi…
The socio-demographics of texting: An analysis of traffic data
Who texts, and with whom do they text? This article examines the use of texting using metered traffic data from a large dataset (nearly 400 million anonymous text messages). We ask: 1) How much do different age groups use mobile phone based texting (SMS)? 2) How wide is the circle of texting partners for different age groups? 3) To what degree are texting relationships characterized by age and gender homophily? We find that texting is hugely popu…
Telling lies together? Sharing news as a form of social authentication
The increasingly assertive position of social media as a news source means that news audiences can no longer depend on traditional journalists for information verification. Instead, they must determine the news credibility on their own. The majority of information credibility studies have considered news audiences’ information evaluation as a purely cognitive endeavor, implying that individuals can arrive at valid information without social valid…
The Gift of News: Phatic News Sharing on Social Media for Social Cohesion
Growing interest with the practice of sharing news stories through social media has driven a move in scholarship away from the “news” aspect and towards the “sharing” aspect. As more news is distributed using social media, its use as social glue becomes increasingly significant. Accordingly, this paper places news sharing in the sociological tradition of gift-giving studies, viewing it as a manifestation of care, above and beyond the informationa…
The social dynamics of mobile group messaging
This paper is an examination of the social dynamics of messaging apps. These text-based applications such as WhatsApp, QQ, Kik, Facebook Messenger and so on can provide insight into two general areas. The first is the how communication platforms develop critical mass. The second is how interaction with the chat groups that arise within the messaging apps provide us insight into a new form of social interaction. The broader issues of these two are…
Text Messaging and IM: Linguistic Comparison of American College Data
While instant messaging (IM) via computers is well entrenched in the United States, text messaging on mobile phones is a more recent technology in America. To investigate the emergence of American texting, this study compared text messages and IMs produced by American college students with respect to transmission length, emoticons and lexical shortenings, and sentential punctuation. We examine our findings in light of other statistical studies of…
What Is Computer-Mediated Communication?”—An Introduction to the Special Issue
At a time when nearly all social activities could be, and likely are, mediated in some ways by some forms of computing technology, what should be the focus of CMC research? How do we theorize and study computer-mediated (or should we say digitally-mediated) communication when the topics of our research—the technology, the concepts and processes of mediation, our sense of what constitutes communication, as well as the theories and methods used to …
It’s just not that exciting anymore”: The changing centrality of SMS in the everyday lives of young Danes
This article considers the centrality of short message system (SMS) texting in the communication repertoires of young Danes. Recent years have seen dramatic changes in the mediascape with a multitude of new possibilities for text-based communication; Facebook, in particular, has become popular among young Danes. Some have suggested that the role of SMS texting, a technology that was previously an entrenched part of young people’s communication re…
Should We Be Concerned That the Elderly Don't Text
The elderly are generally "out of the loop" when it comes to texting and other new technologies. On the one hand, the elderly do not often send text messages and thus signal their ability and willingness to use the medium. On the other hand, stereotyping by the younger users perhaps inhibits them from sending text messages to the elderly. Is the non-use of texting by the elderly because of self-exclusion or lack of exposure or both? Should this b…
Hybrid Space revisited: From concept toward theory
Hybrid Spaces emerge from the blending of physical and digital spaces produced by the mobility of people communicating via mobile technologies. This articulation of Hybrid Space has influenced scholars of communication, media, mobilities, and other fields, as evidenced by our analysis of literature. Over the last two decades, however, Hybrid Spaces have morphed and adapted to our changing sociotechnical landscape. This article updates the concept…
Durkheim and Weber on the social implications of new information and communication technologies
Max Weber and Emile Durkheim made an important contribution to our understanding of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). While they did not discuss ICTs in their work, they provided conceptual tools at the macro-, meso- and micro-social levels that help us understand the use of ICTs. We examine how Weber’s iron cage and Durkheim’s mechanical solidarity and ritual present a coherent account of how ICTs sustain cohesion and also e…
Mobile Communities: Are We Talking About a Village, a Clan, or a Small Group
A central issue in the adoption and use of information and communication technology is the degree to which it either contributes to or detracts from the development of social cohesion in the small group. When considering this question, one need recognize that the social dynamics of the mobile telephone are different from those of the Internet. The device affords point-to-point interaction that makes us individually addressable regardless of where…
The Domestication of Video-On-Demand: Folk Understanding of a New Technology
This article describes several of the elements that have relevance in the integration of video-on-demand into the home. The specific case examined here involves a trial carried out in Oslo, Norway. Using qualitative methods, the study describes how a selection of users integrated the technology into the mental and physical contexts of their everyday lives. Video-on-demand is a technology that is outside our taken-for-granted experience and thus i…
Digital disparities and vulnerability: Mobile phone use, information behaviour, and disaster preparedness in Southeast Asia
This paper proposes an ecological view to investigate how disparities in mobile technology use reflect vulnerabilities in communities vis-à-vis disaster preparedness. Data (n=1,603) were collected through a multi-country survey conducted equally in rural and urban areas of Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam, where mobile technology has become a dominant and ubiquitous communication and information medium. The findings show that smartpho…
Small Circles: Mobile Telephony and the Cultivation of the Private Sphere
This article examines how we use mobile telephony to maintain our physically and socially closest social circle. The analysis is based on traffic data gathered from Norway using approximately 24 million calls and texts made by private individuals. Previous research has shown that our temporal and spatial movement is highly predictable and that the majority of calls and text messages are sent to only four to six different persons. This article ext…
Celebrating 10 years of Mobile Media & Communication
Valuable information on recyclable waste: Mobile phones and the rationalization of the scrap-handling sector in Myanmar
This article examines how the scrap-handling/recycling system in Myanmar has adopted mobile telephony in its day-to-day operations, and how this has led to a rationalization of the sector. It focuses on work processes, information and price retrieval, risk management, efficiency, and coordination. Scrap-handlers and ragpickers in four townships of Myanmar were interviewed in three phases of fieldwork, and their mobile phone use was also observed.…
The Domestication of Video-On-Demand: Folk Understanding of a New Technology
This article describes several of the elements that have relevance in the integration of video-on-demand into the home. The specific case examined here involves a trial carried out in Oslo, Norway. Using qualitative methods, the study describes how a selection of users integrated the technology into the mental and physical contexts of their everyday lives. Video-on-demand is a technology that is outside our taken-for-granted experience and thus i…
I don't watch TV to like learn anything: The Leisure Use of TV and the Internet
This paper is an analysis of how Norwegians use television and the Internet in their leisure time. It sets up a taxonomy using the degree of engagement in the mediated information on one axis and the degree of sociability on the other. Within this matrix one can examine the similarities and differences between the two media and also differences between the generations. The analysis is based on 15 in-home interviews with Oslo-based families
Children, Youth, and Mobile Communication
Teens are, perhaps the most consummate mobile telephone users. Teens have made text messaging into a common form of interaction. They have learned how to coordinate and indeed microcoordinate inter
Text Messaging and IM: Linguistic Comparison of American College Data
While instant messaging (IM) via computers is well entrenched in the United States, text messaging on mobile phones is a more recent technology in America. To investigate the emergence of American texting, this study compared text messages and IMs produced by American college students with respect to transmission length, emoticons and lexical shortenings, and sentential punctuation. We examine our findings in light of other statistical studies of…
Featuretaken for granted: The Infusion of the Mobile Phone in Society
research-article Share on FEATURETaken for granted: the infusion of the mobile phone in society Author: Rich Ling Telenor and University of Michigan Telenor and University of MichiganView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 15Issue 6November + December 2008 pp 55–58https://doi.org/10.1145/1409040.1409054Published:01 November 2008Publication History 3citation785DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations3Total Downloads785Last 12 Months106Last 6 …
Should We Be Concerned That the Elderly Don't Text
The elderly are generally "out of the loop" when it comes to texting and other new technologies. On the one hand, the elderly do not often send text messages and thus signal their ability and willingness to use the medium. On the other hand, stereotyping by the younger users perhaps inhibits them from sending text messages to the elderly. Is the non-use of texting by the elderly because of self-exclusion or lack of exposure or both? Should this b…
Texting as a life phase medium
SMS has grown to be a common form of interaction in Norwegian society. Its adoption started among teens but has since been taken into use by other age groups. However, the use patterns for teens seem to be different from those of older users. This paper examines the assertion that SMS is a life phase and not a cohort phenomenon. That is, its use is more intense among teens and more moderate among older age groups. Data for the analysis comes from…
Mobile Communities: Are We Talking About a Village, a Clan, or a Small Group
A central issue in the adoption and use of information and communication technology is the degree to which it either contributes to or detracts from the development of social cohesion in the small group. When considering this question, one need recognize that the social dynamics of the mobile telephone are different from those of the Internet. The device affords point-to-point interaction that makes us individually addressable regardless of where…
The socio-demographics of texting: An analysis of traffic data
Who texts, and with whom do they text? This article examines the use of texting using metered traffic data from a large dataset (nearly 400 million anonymous text messages). We ask: 1) How much do different age groups use mobile phone based texting (SMS)? 2) How wide is the circle of texting partners for different age groups? 3) To what degree are texting relationships characterized by age and gender homophily? We find that texting is hugely popu…
Mobile communication in the global south
Mobile communication has become a common phenomenon in most parts of the world. There are indeed more mobile subscriptions than there are people who use the internet. For many people outside of the metropolitan areas of Europe and North America, this is literally their first use of electronically mediated interaction. This preface to the special issue of New Media & Society examines mobile communication in a global context. Through an overview of…
Mobile Handsets From The Bottom Up: Appropriation And Innovation In The Global South
This chapter provides a general mapping of grassroots practices associated with an alternative mobile handset culture that has emerged from the bottom up in the Global South. The authors highlight the social, economic, and institutional factors – in local as well as transnational contexts – that have contributed to “flexible” handsets and grassroots practices within this alternative model of social innovation. Drawing upon theories of user approp…
Small and Even Smaller Circles: The Size of Mobile Phone-Based Core Social Networks in Scandinavia and South Asia
Previous research in developed countries has shown that mobile phone users call and text to a relatively small circle of people. Research from the Global South indicates that core network size is often larger than in the developed world since the logistics of daily life require extended informal logistics. This suggests that the core social network, as seen in the use of mobile voice and texting, will be larger in developing countries than in dev…
Durkheim and Weber on the social implications of new information and communication technologies
Max Weber and Emile Durkheim made an important contribution to our understanding of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). While they did not discuss ICTs in their work, they provided conceptual tools at the macro-, meso- and micro-social levels that help us understand the use of ICTs. We examine how Weber’s iron cage and Durkheim’s mechanical solidarity and ritual present a coherent account of how ICTs sustain cohesion and also e…
Measuring Mobile Phone Use: Self-Report Versus Log Data
In this paper we examine how well two types of self-report measures adequately operationalize frequency of mobile phone use by comparing them to server log data. Our self-report measures of voice and SMS text messaging activity are drawn from a nationally representative survey of adults living in Norway. Our results show that self-report measures only correlate moderately to the server log data. This result poses serious epistemological implicati…
“Girls Text Really Weird”: Gender, Texting and Identity Among Teens
This article examines the strategies used by teenagers for interacting with members of the opposite sex when texting. This article uses material from a series of nine focus groups from 2009 in four US cities. It reports on the strategies they use and the problems they encounter as they negotiate this portion of their lives. Texting is a direct, person-to-person venue where they can develop their gendered identity and also investigate romantic int…
It’s just not that exciting anymore”: The changing centrality of SMS in the everyday lives of young Danes
This article considers the centrality of short message system (SMS) texting in the communication repertoires of young Danes. Recent years have seen dramatic changes in the mediascape with a multitude of new possibilities for text-based communication; Facebook, in particular, has become popular among young Danes. Some have suggested that the role of SMS texting, a technology that was previously an entrenched part of young people’s communication re…
Small Circles: Mobile Telephony and the Cultivation of the Private Sphere
This article examines how we use mobile telephony to maintain our physically and socially closest social circle. The analysis is based on traffic data gathered from Norway using approximately 24 million calls and texts made by private individuals. Previous research has shown that our temporal and spatial movement is highly predictable and that the majority of calls and text messages are sent to only four to six different persons. This article ext…
Mobility and Locative Media: Mobile Communication in Hybrid Spaces
Mobility and Locative MediaMobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic, and political practices.Especially as mobile media become seamlessly integrated into transportation networks, navigating urban spaces, and connecting with social networks while on the move, researchers need new approaches and methods to bring together mobilities with mobile communication and locative media.Mobi…
The playful use of mobile phones and its link to social cohesion
Mobile Communication
Connection Cues: Activating the Norms and Habits of Social Connectedness
Journal Article Connection Cues: Activating the Norms and Habits of Social Connectedness Get access Joseph B. Bayer, Joseph B. Bayer 1Communication Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scott W. Campbell, Scott W. Campbell 1Communication Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Distributed Communication
Distributed communication systems have provided for the coordination and control of large‐scale social organizations. Indeed, it was the need to coordinate and control one such system, the railroads, that led to the wide‐scale deployment of one of the earliest distributed communication systems, the telegraph. Progressive enhancement of distributed communication , as seen in the telephone network and the networking of computers, has facilitated th…
Mobility
This entry outlines the various dimensions of mobility and mobility research. It starts by outlining the defining factors of mobility and then traces the major dimensions of this area of study. There is a particular focus on how different concepts of mobility help us to understand the social situation of the individual. The article then examines several topics that are of particular interest to mobilities researchers. These include the issues of …
Location‐Based Communication
Scholars in the area of location‐based communication (LBC) examine the role of location in the communication process. While the popularization of the mobile phone has made this type of communication more prominent, the category covers a wide variety of communicative practices, including information gathering by individuals about their geographical surroundings, and tracing the flow of other individuals across social contexts. Location‐based servi…
Keep out! Join in! Cross-generation communication on the mobile internet in Norway
In this article we examine how teens in Norway navigate the many options for mediated communication when interacting with parents and grandparents. Drawing on workshop discussions with mid-adolescents, we suggest that there is a digital gap in this cross-generation communication despite high Information and Communication Technology (ICT) penetration in the market. The gap appears to be a manifestation of the social dynamic at play when reshaping …
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