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| Acknowledgment |
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| Introduction |
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| Section 1: Investigating the Impacts of Mobile Use Mobile is used by people of different age groups from the youngest to the oldest in different countries. It is also used in different areas for different purposes. Its reach and penetration are expedited and exponential. Its uses and impacts are multi-dimensional and multi-directional, being constantly examined from different disciplinary perspectives using different methods, generating growing amount of scholarship on how mobile has been used and its impacts on both actors and activities. In this section, we have nine chapters to provide most recent research findings to serve as an updated account of the renewed academic efforts in continuously describing, explaining and predicting the impacts of mobile use on actors and activities in the world. As far as actors are concerned, this section covers adolescents, college students, working professionals, and retirees, involving both males and females in different countries. In terms of activities, this section involves use of mobile for academic studies, personal entertainment, dating, food posting, mobile social media, and use of mobile apps. In terms of approaches, this section highlights interdisciplinary and integrated methods. In terms of countries involved, this section covers Australia, China, Colombia, India, Oman, Pakistan, New Zealand, Turkey, UK, and US. |
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Chapter 1 Mobile Use During Adolescence: Determinants and Impacts |
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Equipped with psychological theories of development, the authors of this chapter argue that the impacts of mobile technology should be situated in and understood within their different contexts of use. Besides their advocacy of a situated and integrated approach to understanding the psychological determinants of mobile use and the impact on development, the authors also call for increased interdisciplinary and integrated working to capture the complexity of technology and behaviour and the recognition of individual differences. |
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Chapter 2 Impacts of Mobile Use on Third Agers in China |
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The chapter explores the role of smart phones and mobile apps in the process of third age formation in Zhengzhou, a second-tier city in China located in central Henan province. The term 'third age' refers to a transition period from active work to retirement. Compared with the previous generation, the demographic approaching retirement in China today is more digitally literate, although this varies accordingly in Zhengzhou, a second-tier city. The use of digital technology offers people a different kind of retirement. This study shows that an increasing number of people around retirement age (55-65) in Zhengzhou are using smart phones and apps to reimagine the possibilities of post-work lifestyles. The research asks if the use of mobile apps is changing peoples' perspectives on traditional responsibilities and peoples' expectations of retirement. |
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Chapter 3 Locating Gender Differences in Mobile Use and Habits |
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As an indispensable part of their lives, mobile has been playing an important role among undergraduate students in influencing their lives and academic studies. Although gender has been proven to be an important factor in distinguishing males and females in using the internet and other digital media, what are the gender differences in mobile use and habits? The authors of this chapter offer an updated answer to that question by surveying a selected sample of undergraduate students in Turkey. |
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Chapter 4 Mobile Dating: A Fancy Way to Fall in Love? |
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In addressing the question as to whether mobile dating is a fancy way to fall in love, the author of this chapter ignited further interest in examining the issue by reviewing up-to-date studies on mobile dating, examining mobile dating applications and individual users' motivations at different stages of mobile dating. Furthermore, the author also included LGBTQ studies in her investigation. Finally, the author identified various problems related to mobile dating that invite further examination and solutions. |
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Chapter 5 My Little Joy in Life: Posting Food on Instagram |
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To post food on social media has become a frequent source of fun and joy in life for many mobile users. In investigating such a common scene on Instagram among its young users, the authors of this chapter investigated the relationship between social activity, personal traits like narcissism and shyness, and uses and gratifications from posting food photos on Instagram. Uses of Instagram for posting selfies were also examined for comparison. Results showed that while posting food photos were associated with social activity, posting selfies were associated with shyness. Narcissists were more likely to involve in posting both food photos and selfies. Implications of the results in explaining the generation of visual contents on social media are discussed. |
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Chapter 6 Smartphone Usage, Gratifications, and Addiction: A Mixed-Methods Research |
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Combining a survey and focus groups as a mixed-methods research, the authors of this chapter examined the functions, types, and motivations of smartphone usage and gratifications. Furthermore, the authors also investigated the rates, symptoms, and reasons of smartphone addiction. Still another achievement of the authors was to look into the relationship between smartphone usage, gratifications, and addiction with academic achievements among college students. On top of identifying three levels of addiction, the authors also located distinctive traits of these levels. This chapter provided an interesting example of how mixed-methods research can be employed to investigate mobile use, gratifications, and addiction. It is expected from the editor that this chapter would lead to more comparative studies between or among countries or cultures using by using a mixed-methods research to triangulate and/or complement findings of using different research methods. The inclusion of this chapter in this volume is also meant to invite further studies to investigate the gap between what mobile users want and what they actually get from using mobile as well as its related experience on both the normative and the empirical sides. |
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Chapter 7 Mobile Phone Usage and Its Socio-Economic Impacts in Pakistan |
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Through examining use of mobile in Pakistan's Sindh province, the current chapter presents a unique and interesting case of the socio-economic impacts of mobile use on users' lifestyles. Although there exists an obvious divide between urban and rural areas in terms of impacts of mobile use, the case of Pakistan could serve as an alert to scholars that why mobile use remains limited in narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas against a backdrop of mobile being widely believed to be able to play a big role in narrowing the social and economic gap between urban and rural areas. The author of this chapter found that mobile use was also gender-biased in rural areas, resulting in a gap between males and females as far as social and economic impacts of mobile use on their lifestyles. |
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Chapter 8 Commercial Use of Mobile Social Media and Social Relationship: The Case of China |
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China is well known for its wide and increasing commercial use of mobile social media for various purposes in different areas, ranging from online shopping to social networking. Such a popular commercial use was insightfully examined in relation to social relationship in the age of mobile intemet, which enables people of either weak or strong connections to socialize anywhere anytime, leading to scenarios where mobile social media can be leveraged for profits. In what way can user experiences be guaranteed while platforms' value-added targets be achieved at the same time? In addressing that question, the authors of this chapter examined the commercial use of mobile social media in the context of complicated social networks. It is expected from the editor that further studies are to be carried out to comprehensively and comparatively examine the same topic in different countries or cultures. |
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Chapter 9 Use of Mobile Apps and Creator-Audience Matchmaking: The Case of India |
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With a bird's-eye-view of the journey of exploring mobile use and its impacts in India, one of the biggest mobile markets in the world, the author of this chapter provides an analytical and insightful review of earlier studies on mobile communication development and utility-driven usage. Although country-specific, this chapter provides a very interesting, insightful, and invaluable model to the world, that is, the model of creator-audience matchmaker. As demonstrated by the two cases in this chapter, the creator-audience matchmaker model can be used as a heuristic tool for understanding mobile app development and success in India. |
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| Section 2: Investigating the Impacts of Mobile Experience Behind each mobile use lies mobile experience as each use of mobile generates each unique mobile experience, which can be defined as an outcome of actors' mobile use in mobile-related activities. The seven chapters in this section deal with seven different topics with one common theme, that is, mobile experience and its impacts. |
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Chapter 10 Mobile Learning Experience: Resources and Review |
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As the world is moving towards experience economy, consumers are paying more and more attention to memorable and fun experience beyond a product or service. Learners are the same, especially when learning goes mobile. Mobile learning has been examined in different areas ranging from forms and formats to features and functions. Mobile experience in learning, however, has not yet fully examined. After identifying mechanisms to measure and evaluate mobile learning experience, this chapter reviewed what mobile learning resources could be leveraged to enhance mobile learning experience, followed by recommendations for further studies. |
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Chapter 11 Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese: Review and Recommendations |
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In the age of experience economy, students are also attaching greater importance to enlightening and entertaining experience in learning. Earlier studies on mobile learning experience have generated increasing amount of knowledge on experience-oriented learning. Through reviewing earlier studies on mobile experience in learning Chinese as a second language and recommending dimensions and directions for further studies, this chapter aims at inviting further studies on how to enhance mobile learning experience in general by applying the six stages of mobile experience, assisted with the 3M (mapping, measuring, and modeling) approach with a focus on the gap between the normative and the empirical dimensions of mobile experience in learning Chinese in the context of Confucius Institutes around the world. |
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Chapter 12 Mobile Translation Experience: Current State and Future Directions |
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After closely examining the experiences of mobile translation in which people engage with translation on mobile platforms in the contexts of healthcare, crowdsourcing, and machine and translator training, the authors have identified a tightly intertwined relationship between mobile translation and machine translation. They have also found that the technological side is more dynamic than the user side in the case of mobile translation and machine translation, which may lead to a gradual reduction of people learning foreign languages and a possible loss of professional translators and language specialists. When it comes to contextual and textual translation, however, human translators currently outperform mobile or machine translators. Although human contribution will be determined by translation scenarios or specific translation tasks, the human-mobile/machine interaction in translation deserves further studies. It is imperative to compare mobile use and experience in human-mobile interaction related to translation in different cultures or countries so as to locate similarities and differences. Furthermore, it is also expected from the editor that further studies should focus on mapping, measuring, and modeling those identified similarities and differences. |
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Chapter 13 Contemporary Mobile Experience Among Bottom of Pyramid |
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Mobile has proven to a most successful tool for bottom of pyramid markets as it is the most affordable means to generate utilities for mobile users of lower income strata of pyramid and to provide them with quick and low-cost access to information, government systems, business opportunities, access to education, and health. This chapter presents the landscape of contemporary experience through mobile phones in the field of economic value creation, social value, and health among the bottom of the pyramid in India. |
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Chapter 14 Mobile Experience in War and Conflict Reporting |
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Defining mobile experience as a process of usage, affordance, roles, and impacts of mobile phones during wars and conflicts, the author has located similarities and differences in mobile experience in war and conflict reporting among professional journalists, citizen journalists, governments, militaries, rebels, NGOs, activists, and communities. After exploring the changes and trends related to mobile experience in war and conflict reporting, the author also offered specific dimensions and directions for further studies. |
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Chapter 15 Mobile News Experience: Comparing New York Times and The Guardian |
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Mobile has become a mainstream medium for news consumption on the go. To cater to the growing demand for mobile news, traditional news providers have switched from "mobile too" to "mobile first" strategies. To enhance mobile news communication, it is imperative for mobile news providers to stay abreast of mobile news consumers' changing expectations of mobile news experience in a news app. It is equally imperative to identify the gap between news consumers' expectations and what mobile news experience is embedded in a mobile news app. Using a mobile experience index, the authors of this chapter have located the venue and extent of the gap through conducting a survey of mobile news app users and a comparative analysis of indicators of mobile news experience in selected news apps. |
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Chapter 16 Smart Tourist Experiences: Impacts of Smartphones on Leisure Travels |
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Dayana R. Pinzon Callejas |
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After a comprehensive review on mobile tourism experience, the authors have identified the benefits and impacts of mobile use to tourists and their experiences. Besides locating similarities and differences in using mobile for tourism, the authors have confirmed that mobile empowers tourists to get more from their vacations and to have more flexible planning, resulting in satisfaction and accomplishment. This chapter enlightens tourism operators, among other stakeholders, on the opportunities for contextualized mobile advertising, which would attract and convert tourists into potential customers. |
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| Conclusion |
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| Compilation of References |
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| About the Contributors |
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