cell phone prevalence?
Folks, I recently did an interview with a smart reporter, Eric Weiner, from NPR (US National Public Radio). In it, I opined that one of the most prevalent Qs when people talk on mobile/cell phones is "Where are you"? Eric is wondering if there is any systematic evidence on this. He needs to know quickly, but I think other list members would like to know too, so please copy to the list (and to me, personally). eweiner@npr.org Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Room 418 Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-7162 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days _______________________________________________________________________
Hmmn. I don't know about evidence, but Paul Goldberger noticed this same shift in 2003: Paul Goldberger, "Disconnected Urbanism," Metropolis, (November 2003). http://faculty.smu.edu/stevensr/CCJN3325-001/docs/Goldberger-Disconnected.pd... I have my students read this article as part of a technology reporting class I offer every other year. Cheers, -Rick
Folks,
I recently did an interview with a smart reporter, Eric Weiner, from NPR (US National Public Radio). In it, I opined that one of the most prevalent Qs when people talk on mobile/cell phones is "Where are you"?
Eric is wondering if there is any systematic evidence on this. He needs to know quickly, but I think other list members would like to know too, so please copy to the list (and to me, personally).
eweiner@npr.org
Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________
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I've been reading some recent buzz in the popular press about the implications of GPS enabled cell phones. Modern phones allow for some fascinating possibilities. The location of a cell phone can be accurately and historically tracked with the possibility of notification to other parties of excess speed or passing boundaries. For instance, I'm not sure how the court case ended but there was a recent conflict over traffic radar and the more accurate cell phone GPS speed tracking. I'm sure the possibility of tracking persons of interest is not lost on law officials and know that such options are marketed to parents. By the way, http://www.bitpim.org/ is cool cell phone software that I don't think has anything to do with your location. Charles Balch Professor of Computer Information Systems Arizona Western College -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Richard Stevens Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:42 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] cell phone prevalence? Hmmn. I don't know about evidence, but Paul Goldberger noticed this same shift in 2003: Paul Goldberger, "Disconnected Urbanism," Metropolis, (November 2003). http://faculty.smu.edu/stevensr/CCJN3325-001/docs/Goldberger-Disconnected.pd f I have my students read this article as part of a technology reporting class I offer every other year. Cheers, -Rick
Folks,
I recently did an interview with a smart reporter, Eric Weiner, from NPR (US National Public Radio). In it, I opined that one of the most prevalent Qs when people talk on mobile/cell phones is "Where are you"?
Eric is wondering if there is any systematic evidence on this. He needs to know quickly, but I think other list members would like to know too, so please copy to the list (and to me, personally).
eweiner@npr.org
Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________
S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Room 418 Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-7162 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days _______________________________________________________________________
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Barry Wellman raised this in the mobile society group earlier this year vis: http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/05/cellphone_forensics there are some interesting issues here such as - the prevalence of calls being made by others on one's mobile - esp. for some social groups - the fact that it is the device not the person that is being tracked... Younger siblings swap/share cell phones. - the awareness of traceability and the response = to switch phones off /leave them on but at home/or give them to someone else beforehand - the perfect alibi You don't need GPS - many phones can triangulate themselves using the transmitters they can 'see' and google are now offering a beta location service based on this. http://www.google.co.uk/gmm/mylocation.html?hl=en_GB Ben On 19 Dec 2007, at 17:54, Charlie Balch wrote:
I've been reading some recent buzz in the popular press about the implications of GPS enabled cell phones.
Modern phones allow for some fascinating possibilities. The location of a cell phone can be accurately and historically tracked with the possibility of notification to other parties of excess speed or passing boundaries. For instance, I'm not sure how the court case ended but there was a recent conflict over traffic radar and the more accurate cell phone GPS speed tracking. I'm sure the possibility of tracking persons of interest is not lost on law officials and know that such options are marketed to parents.
By the way, http://www.bitpim.org/ is cool cell phone software that I don't think has anything to do with your location.
Charles Balch Professor of Computer Information Systems Arizona Western College
---- Dr Ben Anderson Director Technology and Social Change Research Centre University of Essex +44 (0) 7710 187 806 http://chimeraweb.essex.ac.uk/tasc
Barry Wellman wrote:
Folks,
I recently did an interview with a smart reporter, Eric Weiner, from NPR (US National Public Radio). In it, I opined that one of the most prevalent Qs when people talk on mobile/cell phones is "Where are you"?
Eric is wondering if there is any systematic evidence on this. He needs to know quickly, but I think other list members would like to know too, so please copy to the list (and to me, personally).
I'm not sure this is systematic/systemic evidence but... Boost Mobile has had a campaign in the last year or so titled "Where you at?". This is mostly a pay-as-you-go/contractless mobile company and targeted at younger consumers. http://www.boostmobile.com http://youtube.com/results?search_query=boost+mobile+%22where+you+at%22 I'd agree that it's probably one of the most prevalent (and relevant) questions being asked on mobile phones. Terrell -- Terrell Russell Co-Founder, claimID.com PhD Student, Information Science, UNC-CH
I don't have the exact references to hand, but Geoff Cooper, Richard Harper and Nicki Green, all at University of Surrey, Sociology, all did extensive work on this a few years back. don _______________________________________________ Don Slater Reader in Sociology, Doctoral Programme Director, Sociology London School of Economics Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE Tel: +44 (020) 7849 4653 Fax: +44 (020) 7955 7405 Skype: 020 7193 7281 ______________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Terrell Russell Sent: 19 December 2007 15:47 To: aoir list Cc: communication and information technology section asa; Eric Weiner Subject: Re: [Air-L] cell phone prevalence? Barry Wellman wrote:
Folks,
I recently did an interview with a smart reporter, Eric Weiner, from NPR (US National Public Radio). In it, I opined that one of the most prevalent Qs when people talk on mobile/cell phones is "Where are you"?
Eric is wondering if there is any systematic evidence on this. He needs to know quickly, but I think other list members would like to know too, so please copy to the list (and to me, personally).
I'm not sure this is systematic/systemic evidence but... Boost Mobile has had a campaign in the last year or so titled "Where you at?". This is mostly a pay-as-you-go/contractless mobile company and targeted at younger consumers. http://www.boostmobile.com http://youtube.com/results?search_query=boost+mobile+%22where+you+at%22 I'd agree that it's probably one of the most prevalent (and relevant) questions being asked on mobile phones. Terrell -- Terrell Russell Co-Founder, claimID.com PhD Student, Information Science, UNC-CH _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm
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