Cameraphones as Personal Storytelling Media

The cameraphone exists at this moment in that ephemeral, potent and confusing phase of its adoption cycle where people are still deciding what kind of social medium it is, writes Howard Rheingold for TheFeature.com, in a must read essay summarizing Mizuko Ito and Daisuke Okabe's previous observations of Japanese mobile phone users.

"Although these devices transmit images through the Internet, they are also turning out, rather unexpectedly, to be face-to-face media. It looks like this newly ubiquitous device could be more about flows of moments than stocks of images, more about sharing presence than transporting messages, and ultimately, more about personal narrative than factual communication."

emily | 10:01 AM | Reports |
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