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FCJ-039 tsk tsk tsk & beyond: anticipating distributed aesthetics
& beyond: anticipating distributed aesthetics Darren Tofts Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Connectivity, interactivity and displacement have accelerated situations of difference. The social concept of networked communities, which preoccupied us in the ‘90s, has its correlative in a particular strand of aesthetics. Distributed and distributable media have made a significant impact upon the way we…
FCJ-038 Women’s Creation of Camera Phone Culture
Dong-Hoo Lee University of Incheon, Korea Introduction Mobile phones have extended human activities beyond the constraints of time and space by increasing mobile communicability en route and real time interaction. These devices have evolved into multi-functional media that can function as camera phones, camcorders, MP3s, PDAs, wireless Internet and so on, and have constructed and…
FCJ-037 Cute Boys or Game Boys? The Embodiment of Femininity and Masculinity in Young Norwegians’ Text Message Love-Projects
Lin Prøitz Institutt for Medier og Kommunikasjon, University of Oslo, Norway Introduction The time will come, when Mrs. Smith would spend an hour with Mrs. Brown very enjoyably cutting up Mrs. Robinson over the telephone. (de Sola Pool, 1977: 33, cited in Due, 2003) The telephone was launched in the late 19th century, accompanied by…
FCJ-036 From Stabilitas Loci to Mobilitas Loci: Networked Mobility and the Transformation of Place
Rowan Wilken University of Melbourne Introduction Place is a much maligned notion within contemporary critical discourse. It is criticised for its lack of definitional precision; it is linked to strategies of exclusion; it is seen as marginal to modernist considerations of time and space; and with the emergence of cyberspace and virtual community, it is…
FCJ-035 Locating Mobility: Practices of co-presence and the persistence of the postal metaphor in SMS/ MMS mobile phone customization in Melbourne
Larissa Hjorth RMIT University, Melbourne Domesticating cartographies Introduction to mobile telephonic practices and spaces As a vehicle arguably furthering the collapsing between work and leisure distinctions, the mobile phone is a clear extension of what Raymond Williams dubbed ‘mobile privatization’ (1974). Here one can still be physically within the home and yet, simultaneously, be electronically…
FCJ-034 Gestures Towards the Digital Maypole
Felicity Colman and Christian McCrea School of Art History, Cinema Studies, Classics & Archaeology, University of Melbourne If a network forms a social relation between gestural beings, then that same network must also connect our dissatisfactions of broken relations and our hopes for their renewal. The elliptical gap that generates this frustration is encircled by…
FCJ-033 Beat me, Whip me, Spank me, Just Make it Right Again: beyond the didactic masochism of global resistance
Scott Sharpe School of Physical Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, Australian Defence Force Academy Maria Hynes School of Social Sciences, Australian National University Robert Fagan School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Macquarie University While the term ‘information super-highway’ might be making a bit of a comeback in a sort of retro-camp lexicon, those who place faith…
FCJ-032 Mobile Technosoma: some phenomenological reflections on itinerant media devices
Ingrid Richardson Murdoch University, Western Australia Portable media devices and ‘wearable’ communications technologies are becoming both increasingly ubiquitous and personalised, penetrating and transforming everyday cultural practices and spaces, and further disrupting distinctions between private and public, ready-to-hand and telepresent interaction, actual and virtual environments. Such devices range from the standard mobile phone – which itself…
FCJ-031 Gendered, Bilingual Communication Practices: Mobile text-messaging among Hong Kong College Students
Angel Lin Faculty of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong Mobile text messaging—variously known as SMS (short message service), text messaging, mobile e-mail, or texting—has become a common means of keeping in constant touch, especially among young people, in many parts of the world today. The research literature abounds with studies on the social, cultural,…
FCJ-030 Flash! Mobs in the Age of Mobile Connectivity *
Judith A. Nicholson Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal. The first flash mobbing is legendary now, though not uncontested. It happened in Manhattan, New York, between 7:27 pm and 7:37 pm on June 17, 2003. Summoned by text messages, emails and blog banter, a crowd of approximately 100 people gathered in the home furnishing section of…
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