| Kursusnavn (dansk): | Mobil kommunikation og samfund |
| Kursusnavn (engelsk): | Mobile Communication and Society |
| Semester: | Efterår 2008 |
| Udbydes under: | cand.it., digital design og kommunikation (ddk) |
| Omfang i ECTS: | 7,50 |
| Kursussprog: | Engelsk |
| Kursushjemmeside: | https://learnit.itu.dk |
| Min. antal deltagere: | 8 |
| Forventet antal deltagere: | 15 |
| Maks. antal deltagere: | 30 |
| Formelle forudsætninger: | Students should have taken the first semester course on Media and Communication, or have similar competences from their previous studies (knowledge about basic media theory and methods, plus specific knowledge about digital media).
They should understand the difference between mass and person to person mediated communication. |
| Læringsmål: | At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Describe the most important milestones in the history of mobile communication
- Explain the main theoretical issues associated with the adoption and use of mobile communication
- Interpret and relate mobile communication theory insights to broader social issues and social interaction
- Critically evaluate the social consequences of mobile communication in the following areas: safety/security, coordination, teen emancipation, disturbance of the social sphere, communication in developing countries, and the role of mobile communication in the ritual maintenance of society.
- Independently identify and interesting research question about mobile communication and society and carry out an empirical enquiry choosing the most appropriate methodology.
- Discuss their empirical findings and put them into perspective in relation to the main theories discussed in the course.
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| Fagligt indhold: | This course will examine the social consequences of mobile communication and the role that mobile communication is playing in the reformulation of everyday life.
Mobile communication is a personal media. Thus the issues surrounding its adoption and use are different from those associated with the so-called mass media (TV, Radio and portions of the Internet). Where, for example TV has
commercialized content with advertisements, mobile communication is often interpersonal and the “content” is simply talk between partners. Where TV programming plays on and even develops various cultural icons, mobile
communication plays on our familiarity with our interlocutor.
Historically speaking, mobile communication – as represented by cell phone technology – is the first time that it is easily possible to receive or send a message from one who is not at a fixed geographic location. Mobile
communication also individualizes communication. Rather than calling a home or an office, you call an individual.
This, in itself, means that it changes the way in which we think about safety and security. It changes our ideas about how we coordinate meetings and social interactions. It also changes the way in which teens experience emancipation
from their parents; our sense of what is an appropriate way to behave in the public sphere and the topography of our social networks.
The course will look into alternative ideas about how the situation will develop. Among other things, specific topics include:
- The social consequences of mobile communication (safety, coordination, emancipation, disturbance of the public sphere, the possible balkanizing of the social group)
- Mobile communication and social capital
- The adoption and use of new mobile communication technologies
- International perspectives on mobile communication
- Differences between mass and interpersonal communication,
- The theoretical dimensions of ICT adoption
The course will also introduce and provide training in some basic methodologies in the social sciences. |
| Læringsaktiviteter: | 14 ugers undervisning bestående af forelæsninger og øvelser 14 weeks teaching including lectures, reading discussions and exercises where students get practice with different metholodologies.
The teacher is responsible for holding lectures, finding relevant readings, and preparing the exams. It is the responsibility of the student to show up for class having read the expected material and be ready to discuss it in an intelligent manner.
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Teachers:
Richard Ling, visiting associate professor at INC research group
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| Eksamensform og -beskrivelse: | X. experimental examination form (7-scale; external exam), 7-trins-skala, Ekstern censur There will also be 2 minor mandatory assignments along the way, which the students need to have submitted in order to go to the final exam.
Please note that the examination project on this course is to be handed in Friday the 12th of December no later than 3 PM in the Examination Office.
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| Litteratur udover forskningsartikler: | The mobile connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society by Rich Ling
Plus a compendium of selected articles.
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