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Check out this website Mobile social computing: From research to product
It is a video clip of industry professionals discussing how telecommunication products and applications have great influences on the ways people behave, perceive and construct their social identity and relationships.
http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/abstracts/04-05/050408-jung.html
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Mobile Internet
Serena and I (Rebecca) discovered today that Satellite TV is just recently being offered as an odd-on to cars (although probably not yet as a from the factory option), which got me thinking about satellite internet. While it's still pretty ugly to look at, larger vehicles can now connect to the internet continuously from almost anywhere in the US. I'm betting this'll get much more streamlined, and eventually completely integrated into car design.
The website http://www.internetanywhere.us/pages/883501/index.htm claims: Standard Features
D-2 Controller and DW6000 Modems ·Automatic, one touch, "Hands Free" all weather positioning ·Broadband Mobile Internet Access ·Always On. No idle disconnects ·Optional DirecTV/Dish Network Television Reception ·Flat rate monthly billing - no unexpected charges ·Locate and stow the dish without having to turn your computer on ·Re-Peak the signal if the vehicle has settled ·GPS location, heading and altitude ·Locates any Direcway satellite ·Nationwide installation available ·7 days per week Technical Support
this is $5295 installed plus $99 a month, so it's out of most people's range just yet, but it should come down as more people do it.
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Posted at Jun 05/2005 09:02PM:
zaslow: I notice the term “mobile media” used regularly in the forum—and I’m wondering about this formulation of the topic. Certainly the car itself is a piece of mobile technology. But if we permanently affix, say, a sound system to that car, is the sound system mobile? Not in-and-of-itself. It moves only when the car moves.
Now this might seem like a distinction without a difference, but it might also offer a way into some of the strategic and tactical challenges of the project. If we really are talking about mobile technologies—as when someone uses an ipod in the car, then we might be led to recommending that DC simply get ready for 2015 with plugs and ports. But if we’re talking about affixed media, then maybe we’re closer to “smart technologies” and ubiquitous computing/electronics—and could look at the work done, for example, on smart homes, for predictive methodologies and cultural patterns.
Plus, this approach gets us around that whole sticky “media vs. technology” distinction referred to in the forum’s interview guidelines. Maybe we are thinking about a “smart car” with a focus on systems other than those that strictly enable driving?
Posted at Jun 06/2005 08:46AM:
chris witmore: Thank you for pointing this usage out Ruth. The term "mobile media" is a bit redundant because most media are in fact mobile, in that they circulate something of an event at a distance. What we are discussing here is what many in the media studies world refer to as ubiquitous or pervasive media.
