Название: Connected Mobilities: The Uses of Yesterday and TodayАвтор: Jean-Michel Ledjou, Hanitra Randrianasolo-Rakotobe, Destiny Tchéhouali
Издательство: Wiley-ISTE
Серия: Networks and Telecommunications Series
Год: 2026
Страниц: 317
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB
In the space of fifteen years, smartphones have replaced many technical devices, making digital uses more mobile and autonomous. Connected Mobilities presents an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the continuities and discontinuities between past and present uses of mobile applications in the era of permanent connectivity. This book examines the socio-technical effects of these digital devices on social interactions, collective imaginaries, and modes of communication in public spaces now saturated with screens, interfaces and mobile devices. It also examines their impact on our consumption choices, on the accessibility and discoverability of diverse cultural expressions online, and on power relations in increasingly digitized environments. Mobile phone usage patterns have also evolved rapidly. While in the late 1990s, phones were mainly used for making calls and sending text messages, the advent of 3G in the mid-2000s enabled access to the mobile Internet, albeit with fairly limited uses given the low speeds, limited mobile broadband capacity and lack of a developed application ecosystem. Thanks to smartphones, whose versatility is based on the services and features offered by everyday mobile applications, we can now not only communicate instantly, but also stay informed, entertain ourselves, shop, find our way around easily, interact on social networks, work, and more. Over the past 15 years, smartphones have also replaced other devices such as cameras, GPS devices and MP3 players.
