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Rethinking gender and technology within intersections in the Global South
2019
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines mobile technology use in the Global South through the lens of intersectional understandings of power. It explores the integration of mobile phones in the lives of women from Gishu County in Kenya, and the meanings and symbolism attributed to this technology. The book deals with the material-feminist concept of social reproduction to understand the deepening precarity of the urban poor in Tanzania and their gendered responses to it. It explains the concept of young men’s financial inclusion linked to the proliferation of mobile money in Uganda. The book discusses th…
Enhancing system level performance of third generation cellular networks through VoIP and MBMS services
2010
Multi-hop D2D Communications with Network Coding : From A Performance Perspective
2019
Multi-hop device-to-device (D2D) communications play an important role in expanding D2D coverage. In this paper, we study a relay-based and network-coding-assisted (in particular, XOR coding) multi-hop D2D communication system. In the system, toward jointly considering the impact of interference and network traffic conditions on the quality of D2D communications, various channel fading models and traffic models are investigated, and the packet loss probability of D2D links is meticulously computed using these models. With the packet loss probability of D2D links, the general closed-form expressions of end-to-end packet loss probability (E2EPLP) of the system with the presence (or absence) o…
Musiikkimatkailijan muotokuva : Viitasaaren Musiikin aika -festivaali 1992 ja 2007
2013
Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan kysymyksiä mitä on musiikkimatkailu ja minkälainen on musiikkimatkaili-ja, käyttäen aineistona kesällä 2007 Viitasaaren Musiikin aika -nusiikkifestivaalilla tehtyä kyselytutki-musta, joka pohjautui Timo Cantellin (1993) kesällä 1992 Musiikin aika -musiikkifestivaalilla tekemään kyselytutkimukseen. Vuoden 2007 ja 1992 tuloksia vertaillaan keskenään käyttäen viitekehyksenä ai-neistojen analysoinnissa Hughesin (2000) teoriaa matkailusta, johon sisältyy taidekokemus, the arts-related tourism ja matkailijasta, the arts-related tourist, jonka matkaan kuuluu taidekokemus. Hughesin teoria rajaa tutkittaviksi kohteiksi nimenomaan esittävän taiteen, the peforming arts, joh…
The Conference Reimagined. Postcards, Letters, and Camping Together in Undressed Places
2019
In this paper, five authors account for the rethinking of a conference as a series of postcards, letters, rules and silent moments so that traditional hierarchies of knowledge could be overturned or, at least, sidelined. We recount how the place we convened was enlisted as an actor and the dramas and devices we applied to encounter it. We use this accounting to problematize the conventional practices of goal-oriented meetings and co-authored papers as forms of academic meaning-making. In finding a meeting point where expertise was disorientated and status undressed, we were able to investigate the idea of co-being between human and nonhuman realities as the step social theory needs to take …
Design of mobile phones for older adults : An empirical analysis of design guidelines and checklists for feature phones and smartphones
2017
Design guidelines and checklists are suggested as a useful tool in the development and evaluation of interface design of mobile phones for older adults. Given the intense evolution of mobile phone design, understanding how the design guidelines and checklists have taken into account the advances in mobile phone usability for older adults is important for their correct application and future development. Thus, this study explores the usability dimensions of mobile phone design for older adults and the related changes in terms of time and the type of device (feature phones vs. smartphones) based on an expert coding of the eight mobile phone design guidelines and checklists for older adults pu…
Mobile phones, identity and discursive intimacy
2005
This paper deals with the sociocultural effects of mobile phones in Philippine society. In particular it looks at how mobile phones have affected notions of identity and the rise of the sexual subject. It also deals with the political possibilities and implication of this new communicative technology in a society with previously poorly developed telephonic and other communicative technologies. Mobile phones allow absent subjects to exercise a daily presence in their communities of origin. This absent presence generates virtual subjects interacting primarily via the mobile phone.