June 10, 2003
The Social Impact of mobile phones
According to The Stanford Daily, posted by Howard Rheingold on Smart Mobs, instant messaging and mobile phones are changing student life in many ways, where students "co-evolve with technology and digital media", according to Fred Turner, an assistant professor of communication who teaches a course entitled "The Social Impact of Digital Media."
Of related interest, ON/OFF, a documentary on the social aspects of the use of communication technologies in a variety of cultural settings. Ethnographic researchers and documentary filmmakers travelled around the globe throughout the year 2002, filming families in Chicago, London, England, Recife and Shanghai. In each city, the families were filmed in their homes, followed to work and to school, and the crew recorded their stories about the impact that mobile communication technologies have had on their everyday lives. More (in French) in Largeur.com.
And a 28 page special report by The Guardian, How the mobile changed the world dated November 11, 2002.
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