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dc.contributor.authorMcGuigan, Jim
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-02T06:37:25Z
dc.date.available2009-06-02T06:37:25Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationMcGuigan, J. (2005). Towards a Sociology of the Mobile Phone. Human Technology, Volume 1 (1), pp. 45-57. URN:NBN:fi:jyu-2005125. Retrieved from http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/20172
dc.description.abstractUse of the mobile phone is an immensely significant social and cultural phenomenon. However, market hype and utopian dreams greatly exaggerate its importance. The fundamental issue for sociology is the process of change. Bound up with contemporary issues of change, the mobile phone is a prime object for sociological attention both at the macro and micro levels of analysis. This article considers the strengths and weaknesses of four methods for studying the sociality of the mobile phone (social demography; political economy; conversation, discourse and text analysis; and ethnography), the different kinds of knowledge they produce, and the interests they represent. Recent ethnographic research on the mobile phone, particularly motivated by issues around the uncertain transition from 2G to the 3G technology, has examined the actual experience of routine use. Interpretative research is now supplementing purely instrumental research, thereby giving a much more nuanced understanding of mobile communications. Critical research on the mobile phone, of which there is little, is beginning to ask skeptical questions that should be pursued further.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Jyväskylä, Agora Center
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHuman Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments
dc.relation.urihttp://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 4.0
dc.subject.othermobile phonesen
dc.subject.otherinstrumental researchen
dc.subject.otherinterpretative researchen
dc.subject.othercritical researchen
dc.subject.otherethnographyen
dc.subject.otherAppartgeisten
dc.subject.othermatkapuhelimetfi
dc.titleTowards a sociology of the mobile phone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-2005125
dc.relation.issn1795-6889
dc.relation.numberinseries1
dc.relation.volume1
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2005 Jim McGuigan and the Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä
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dc.rights.urlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/


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