Generation here

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Generation here

• Exploring the impact of 3G mobile phone
  technology on global communities
• By Richard Benson, Mark Radcliff, Stephen
  Armstrong, Rob Levine

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New applications

• from a simple call
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• web email access, stills video photography,
  videoconferencing, music recording playback,
  television, downloads

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Telephony and community

• Possible conversations 2 people to 1000s (3G
  enabled virtual communities)
• Phone as an always-on peer panel
• Sending instant postcards
• Third generation not defined by age, but
  importance on being part of a wider network

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The individual mobile phone

• Critics
• contacts are replaced by the technology
• young people dont learn facts by head
• Opponents
• our sense of self being is enhanced and evolved
• mobile memory is taking over the roles of
  old-fashioned aids to it
• Video-calling rewrites rules
• Teleconvergence

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Love and romance

• Dating services use mobile phone technology
• Privacy and 3G open vs closed or back-door
  communication cultures
• Long-distance love
• Bluetooth encounters

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The new phone etiquette

• Different rules apply in different countries
• Using the mobile in public
• Ways of using technology
• Use of language
• Handset hierarchies
• Video etiquette

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Developments in post-verbal communication

• Digital democracy (breaking down barriers between
  public private, leaders citizens)
• Mofessionalism (amateurs become experts or
  correspondents)
• Health 3G
• Sprititual reflections

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3G and speed

• Accelleration in all fields, high speed is norm
• Time is money
• Junior elites are the first to be aware of new
  cultural phenomena

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3G and space

• New technology is also about specific locations
  (thanks to Bluetooth, GPS etc.)
• Phones are a mediating device between users and
  reality
• Exploration of space for pleasure
• A hallway between worlds we can walk through any
  door, into any world we choose