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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Mobile Media"”.
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Mobile media distribution in developing contexts
There are a growing number of mobile phones being used in developing contexts, such as Africa. A large percentage of these phones have the capability to take photographs and transmit them freely using Bluetooth. In order to provide people with media on their mobile phones public displays are …
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An Effective Dynamic Handoff Support for Mobile Media Network
Mobility is the most important feature of a wireless cellular communication system. Usually, continuous service is achieved by supporting handoff (or handover) from one cell to another. Handoff is the process of changing the channel associated with the current connection while a call is in …
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A Quasi-Experiment Examining Expressive and Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge of Preschool Head Start Children Using Mobile Media Apps
… of screens. In particular, children*s use of mobile media, including tablets and other touch screen devices, is increasing (Common Sense Media, 2013). Even though scholars have highlighted positive uses for mobile media (Christakis, 2014; Radesky, Schumacher, & Zuckerman, 2015) and there are …
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'Digital storytelling' - unplugged public video voices and impression management in a participatory mobile media project for youth in Khayelitsha, South Africa
This study documented the process of mobile Digital Storytelling with a particular focus on the development of civic awareness and voice as well as the participants’ strategies to address multiple audiences of digital stories and to distribute their video creations through pre-existing …
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Writing for mobile media: The influences of text, digital design and psychological characteristics on the cognitive load of the mobile user
Text elements on the mobile smartphone interface make a significant contribution to the user’s interaction experience. In combination with other visual design features, these words curate the path of the mobile user on a journey through the information to satisfy a specific task. This study …
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Virtual retail theater: a aplicação das práticas de gamificação e transmedia storytelling a um canal de pagamentos
… espaços virtuais que valorizem a convergência da mobile media art com as funções de utilidade, e explore o impacto da aplicabilidade das práticas de transmedia storytelling na criação de uma cultura de fãs. Como resultado desta investigação espera-se que artistas de mobile media art identifiquem …
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Interact : media informed architecture
… us.This thesis explores the relationship between media and architecture. Specifically, how the moving image and the experience of moving through built space can direct, distract and alter perception. Interaction between the public and the displayed media create an environment that is both social …
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Towards a Practitioner Model of Mobile Music
This practice-based research investigates the mobile paradigm in the context of electronic music, sound and performance; it considers the idea of mobile as a lens through which a new model of electronic music performance can be interrogated. This research explores mobile media devices as tools and …
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A MEDIATED INTIMACY: ART, TECHNOLOGY, AND EXCHANGE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
<p>A Mediated Intimacy; Art, Technology and Exchange in the Digital Age examines the role of intimacy in the technologically extended work of art. The text posits that there are three strategies that the technologically extended work of art uses to create mediated intimacy. These strategies are …
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Moving fiction : novelists, technology designers, and the art of the exchange
… combine to create new forms of storytelling on mobile devices? This paper examines the theory and practice of bringing literary techniques into mobile technology design. First I present a model of media technology evolution which is not progressive, but atemporal-grounded in the ongoing …
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Children’s public service broadcasters and their challenges in the online era: a comparison between the UK and Germany
… broadcasting to public service multi- platform media for children under 13 years in the United Kingdom and Germany, where public service broadcasters offer content and services on multiple platforms, including traditional TV, audio, online and mobile media. The research focuses on the …
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Online and digital media usage on cell phones among low-income urban youth in Cape Town
… new possibilities for the use and production of media, for social networking and communication, political activism, and social development. For this study, 441 grade 11 students at nine schools in low-income areas in Cape Town, South Africa were surveyed about their use of cell phones. These …
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Mobile-mentory mobile documentaries in the mediascape
… investigates the potential of and prospects for mobile documentary filmmaking. As a result of practice-led research, the city film Max with a Keitai was produced on mobile camera phones for cinematic projection. The feature-length documentary portrays the contemporary Japanese megalopolis through …
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Government electronic and mobile service delivery : a success factors model
… the phenomenon of government electronic and mobile service delivery including mobile government service mechanisms. It is an area of management and information systems yet to be fully developed in many parts of the world with considerable variation in success and experience. The study …
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The screen as a site of division and encounter
… autoethnographic performance strategies to the mediated space of the screen. Media materials (photos, videos and blog entries) are created with mobile media devices used in performative situations, offering a theoretical framework originating in practice. The main argument is that the screen is …
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New media is a joke : tracing irony, satire, and remediation in online discourse
… age. This age is often characterized a highly mediated one with the proliferation of increasingly powerful, and increasingly mobile, media an ongoing concern of communication scholars. Understanding how these new forms refashion public discourse to address new contexts is important. In order to …
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Technology outreach programs : their impact on middle-school students and their families from underserved communities
… opportunities to build their skills in multimedia, mobile media and online participation in addition to fostering access to newer computers of good quality with high-speed and wireless Internet.
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Human-centred computer architecture: redesigning the mobile datastore and sharing interface
… approach to interrogate current and develop new mobile sharing interfaces and datastores. through this approach I open up a line of inquiry that connects a material perspective of information with everyday sharing and communication practices as well as with the mobile and cloud architectures that …
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"""Partially connected, partially protected"": New media and Japanese-Brazilian return migrants in Japan"
… dissertation explores the use of the internet, mobile phones and other types of new and old media by Japanese-Brazilian return migrants in Japan, who are Brazilian nationals of Japanese ancestry that migrate transnationally from Brazil to Japan to work. The study first discusses the history of …
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Brave New Wireless World: Mapping the Rise of Ubiquitous Connectivity from Myth to Market
… offered by “always on” Internet-enabled mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. This myth proclaims that work and social life are optimized, made more flexible, manageable, and productive, through the use of these devices and their related services. The prevalence of this …