What is it about?
Mobile devices like smartphones are transforming the nature of consumption experiences, from languid or legato forms to isochronal and staccato forms. Using three historical episodes of technology and mobility – the transistor radio, the walkman-style cassette device, and the MP3 player – we uncover the patterns that enhanced levels of mobility bring to the media consumption experience. In particular, temporal framings are offered as correctives to spatially-biased theories of mobile media.
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Why is it important?
The leadership and guidance of Johanna Moisander (Aalto University, Finland) played a key role in the development and progress of this paper. The authors, since the publication of this, have found many new inspiring avenues to explore the intersections of mobility, virtuality, and sociality.
Perspectives
Explorations of mobile media continue, especially at the work happening under the direction of Dr. Ruby Roy Dholakia at the University of Rhode Island (URI) and in the network of URI doctoral alumnus Syagnik 'Sy' Banerjee at the University of Michigan - Flint. My involvement in some exciting mobile media projects also continues.
Dr Nikhilesh Dholakia
University of Rhode Island
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This page is a summary of: Mobile media: from legato to staccato, isochronal consumptionscapes, Consumption Markets & Culture, April 2014, Taylor & Francis, DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2014.899216.
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Fountainhead: Pioneering research into technology, markets, consumers at URI
From mid-1980s, under the skilled leadership of Dr. Ruby Roy Dholakia (and Dr. Nikhilesh Dholakia) at the University of Rhode Island (URI), a strong and consistently innovative program of research on technology, markets and consumers has been producing highly insightful research on a broad range of social, psychological, cultural, organizational and political aspects of information technologies. Explore the scope and depth of such work via Google Scholar portal of Ruby Roy Dholakia.
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Ruby Roy Dholakia: Pioneering research scholar in mobility, mobile communications, mobile commerce
This introductory piece indicates the very early focus on mobile technology, mobile communications, and mobile commerce; in the research endeavors launched at the University of Rhode Island (URI) by Ruby Roy Dholakia and her globally associated research network. For more samples of work done by her and her associates, please search for "Ruby Roy Dholakia" in Google Scholar.
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Nikhilesh Dholakia on Google Scholar
Portal into the tech-consumer-markets-culture work of the lead author.
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Google Scholar Page: Johanna Moisander
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