The mobile phone and the dynamic between private and public communication: Results of an international exploratory study

Höflich, Joachim R.

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“…By focusing on the everyday spatial practices of Dodgeball members, I have tried to show how the same technology can be used to both facilitate and avoid sociality in urban public spaces. While some have suggested that mobile communication technologies contribute to blurring the boundaries between public and private (Hoflich, 2006;Puro, 2002;Sheller, 2004;Sheller and Urry, 2003), Lofland's (1998) concept of 'parochial' becomes an alternative lens through which to understand the complexity of privacy and publicness as it relates to urban communication and spatial practices.…”

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Mobile social networks and urban public space

Humphreys

2010

New Media & Society

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The development and proliferation of mobile social networks have the potential to transform ways that people come together and interact in public space. These services allow new kinds of information to flow into public spaces and, as such, can rearrange social and spatial practices. Dodgeball is used as a case study of mobile social networks. Based on a year-long qualitative field study, this article explores how Dodgeball was used to facilitate social congregation in public spaces and begins to expand our understanding of traditional notions of space and social interaction. Drawing on the concept of parochial space, this article examines how ideas of mobile communication and public space are negotiated in the everyday practice and use of mobile social networks.It would be easy to believe that communication technology has always allowed people to overcome barriers of time and space. People have used the telegraph, telephone, television, computers and the internet to share information and interact across temporal and geographical boundaries. In some cases communication technologies have even encouraged the shift and acceleration of information flows. With the rise of electronic and networked technology, scholars have suggested that social interaction has become increasingly disembedded from the particulars of time and space (Giddens, 1991;Meyrowitz, 1985). People can use the internet and mobile technology to connect with friends and family from all over the world.While telecommunications allow people to connect with those far away, it would be an oversimplification to suggest that these technologies make local connections and relations unimportant. In fact, there is a growing movement to help people use telecommunications to connect with other locals. Services such as CraigsList.com, MeetUp.com and Plazes. com harness the power of the internet to facilitate connections between people based on new media & society 12(5) 763-778

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Mobile social networks and urban public space

Humphreys

2010

New Media & Society

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“…Sixty percent of employees report experiencing stress at work due to incivility (Pearson & Porath, 2005, 2009. Some observers identify mobile phone use in public and professional settings as either causes of or symptoms of this growing incivility (Forni, 2008;Höflich, 2006;Pearson & Porath, 2005, 2009. Perhaps one reaction to the perceived loss of civility in society and in the workplace is a growing demand for business professionals who demonstrate civility.…”

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Perceptions of Civility for Mobile Phone Use in Formal and Informal Meetings

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Okoro

Cardon

2013

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly

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We report our survey research about what American business professionals consider appropriate or civil mobile phone behavior during formal and informal meetings. The findings come from two of our recent research studies: an open-ended survey of 204 employees at a beverage distributor on the East Coast and a nationwide, random-sample survey of 350 business professionals in the United States. There were significant differences by age, group, gender, region, and income level. The differences between women and men were quite striking, with men nearly twice as likely to consider various mobile phone behaviors as acceptable in informal meetings.

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“…Nevertheless, both areas of research rely on self-report through either interviews or surveys or experimental methods, which may lack external validity. Little observational field work has occurred since early mobile phone research (Hoflich, 2005(Hoflich, , 2006a(Hoflich, , 2006bHumphreys, 2005;Lasen, 2003), which the current study tries to rectify.…”

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“…Theoretically, she drew on two primary models of social interaction: (a) normative behavior in public space (Goffman, 1971) and (b) telephone interactions (Hopper, 1992). As with other early work on mobile phones (e.g., Hoflich, 2005Hoflich, , 2006aHoflich, , 2006bIto, Okabe, & Matsuda, 2005;Lasen, 2003), Humphreys was interested in how mobile phones change peoples' interactions within public space. She writes, "Together, Goffman and Hopper provide models for understanding the introduction of cellphones into public spaces-specifically, how the technology may influence normative social interaction, as well as how traditional landline phone use may change when phones can be used in more public contexts" (2005, p. 812).…”

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Mobiles in public: Social interaction in a smartphone era

Humphreys

Hardeman

2020

Mobile Media & Communication

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This article reports on the findings from a field study of mobile phone use among dyads in public. Replicating an originally published field study from 2005, this study highlights how mobile phones and use have changed in the last 15 years and demonstrates the ways that mobile phones are used to both detract and enhance social interactions. Drawing on the notions of cellphone crosstalk and caller hegemony, we identify behavioral responses to mobile phones and the use of mobile phones by others, which help to manage both face-to-face and mediated social expectations of responsiveness. Based on observational fieldwork and interviews, we identify specific behavioral categories that demonstrate how social vulnerability and ostracism due to mobile phone use may be mitigated through parallel or collective mobile phone use. We also expand the original concepts of cellphone crosstalk and caller hegemony to mediated crosstalk and notification hegemony to account for contemporary changes in the sociotechnical mobile landscape.

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The mobile phone and the dynamic between private and public communication: Results of an international exploratory study

Cited by 28 publications

References 5 publications

Mobile social networks and urban public space

Mobile social networks and urban public space

Perceptions of Civility for Mobile Phone Use in Formal and Informal Meetings

Mobiles in public: Social interaction in a smartphone era

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