Mobile Learning Mobile Library Mobile Technology Mobile Society

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Mobile Learning Mobile Library Mobile Technology
Mobile Society

• John Traxler

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Social Change

• changes/increases in domestic/social use of
  personal wireless mobile devices and
  technologies
• relentless marketing and take-up of each new
  gadget, network, connectivity
• new forms of commerce, commodity, employment,
  crime, artistic expression, political
  organisation new artefacts and economic assets

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Isabodywear underwear fends off cellphone
radiation
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SMS Riot Transmitting Race on Sydney Beach
11 December 2005, as Sydney was settling into
early summer haze, there was a race riot on the
popular Cronulla beach in the citys southern
suburbs. Hundreds of people, young men
especially, gathered for a weekend protest. Their
target and pretext were visitors from the
culturally diverse suburbs to the west, and the
need to defend their women and beaches in the
face of such unwelcome incursions and behaviours.
In the ensuing days, there were violent raids and
assaults criss-crossing back and forth across
Sydneys beaches and suburbs, involving almost
farcical yet deadly earnest efforts to identify,
respectively, people of anglo or Middle
Eastern appearance (often specifically
Lebanese) and to threaten or bash them. At the
very heart of this state of siege and the fear,
outrage, and sadness that gripped those living in
Sydney were the politics of transmission. The
spark that set off this conflagration was widely
believed to have been caused by the transmission
of racist and violent calls to arms via mobile
text messages.
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Personal Change

• discourse
• identity
• community

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Mobiles and Identity

• Paging Nyawose
• Cellphone Mpungose
• Message Gumede
• SMS Mabaso
• Phonebook Dlamini
• Ringtone Khoza
• MTN Shezi
• Prepaid Zwane
• Pay as you go Mfeka
• Please Call Me Cetshwayo
• Contract Mabaso
• Charger Ngobese
• Hands Free Tshabalala
• Unavailable Masondo
• Switchoff Mabuza
• Sim-Rejected Hlongwane
• Airtime Zwelithini
• Internet Mthethwa
• Server Mkhize

• Ever since mobile phone services were introduced
  in KwaZulu-Natal some parents have named their
  children after some of the terms used by mobile
  services providers. According to Home Affairs
  statistics some of the children born from 1993
  when mobile services were introduced in the
  province (and the rest of SA) have the following
  names
• Network Madondo
• Subscriber Zulu
• Nokia Khumalo
• Siemens Mdlalose
• Motorola Buthelezi
• Dial Magubane
• Vodacom Mkhize
• Call Later Ndlovu
• Voicemail Ngobese
• Simcard Makhathini
• Scratchcard Mlaba
• Talktime Luthuli
• Send Ndebele

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Beyond constructivism?
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Beyond constructivism?
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Changes to Knowledge

• access to information, data, knowledge is ..
• easy and convenient
• but chunked structured differently
• consumed differently
• anytime/anywhere
• just-in-time/just-for-me

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dual paradigms
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It stores tunes and plays your favourite music
wherever you go
Yes dear, its called the Grenadier Guards