MCC-UE 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Emperor Keitai, Camera Phone, Microelectronics
27 Apr 2016
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Social construction of medium in japan (okada) Keitai originally marketed for official/business use (was a shared device) 1990s, personalization of pagers (esp. by high school and college-aged women), forerunner of keitai text-messaging. Youth shaped medium into personal device (mid 1990s), with emphasis on sms and mms. Development of camera phone in japan influenced by popularity of pho-sticker booths. Okada on mobile phone as example of new media (51) What factors converged in mobile phones? (technocal and economic) E. g. radio communication, microelectronics, computerization (to manage system / automatically track handsets and route calls) Digital memory & storage features (address book, calculator, games, etc. ) James katz: we coin the neologism apparatgeist to suggest the spirit of the machine that influences both the designs of the technology as well as the initial and subsequent significance accorded to them by users, non-users and anti-users.
