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From novelty to necessity: Social negotiations of the cellular phone in United States media culture.

机译:从新颖性到必要性:美国媒体文化中手机的社会谈判。

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The widespread proliferation of mobile telephony in the United States and around the world has generated increasing scholarly attention to the intersections between technology and social life. Rather than contribute to the prolific body of research on users, my project works to denaturalize the present understandings of the cellular phone through the (re)construction of specific articulations of the device that have circulated in U.S. media culture over the last two decades. I focus on how the cell phone is culturally construed as a tool for personal and public safety, as an ideal device for household and family management, and finally as a public offense and threat to social order. To do so, I turn to a variety of media artifacts to establish the intertextual context that both constitute and document the curiosities, tensions, fears and perceptions of this new technology.; The dissertation proceeds with analysis of three articulations of the cell phone. First, I examine how the cell industry evoked discourses of safety/security to infiltrate the consumer market, ultimately reinforcing the binary of vulnerable woman/protective patriarchy. By appealing to the infallible discourse of "safety," surveillance of the self and others is legitimized, and the crisis communications of Columbine and 9/11 advance the cellular phone in the public consciousness. Next, I trace the articulation of the cell phone as a means to manage the family and domestic sphere. Media culture emphasizes how cell phones can be used by parents to simultaneously bridge spheres of their public and private lives, and are cast as a key device for the whole family, allowing for the "remote parenting." Finally, I outline areas of tension that emerge in light of the presence of mobile phones in public. The fears and anxieties in cultural circulation about the cell phone's relationship to public life mirror those of previous electronic media in public space. Taken together, this project redresses a gap in mobile telephone research by attending to the persistent and mutually reinforcing mediated images and discourses that form a framework for the cultural expectations and understandings about the technology in U.S. society.
机译:在美国和世界范围内,移动电话的广泛普及引起了人们对技术与社会生活之间的交汇处的学术关注。我的项目并没有为用户的大量研究做出贡献,而是通过(重新)构造过去二十年来在美国媒体文化中流传的设备的特定关节,使当前对手机的理解变得不自然。我关注的是手机在文化上如何被视为个人和公共安全的工具,是家庭和家庭管理的理想设备,最后是公共罪行和对社会秩序的威胁。为此,我转向各种媒体工件,以建立互文的语境,这些语境既构成又记录了对该新技术的好奇,紧张,恐惧和看法。论文将对手机的三个关节进行分析。首先,我研究了电池行业如何引发安全/安保论调以渗透到消费市场,最终增强了弱势女性/保护家长制的二元性。通过诉诸无误的“安全”话语,对自我和他人的监视合法化,哥伦拜恩和9/11的危机通讯使手机在公众意识中得到了发展。接下来,我将手机的连接方式作为管理家庭和家庭领域的一种手段。媒体文化强调父母如何使用手机同时弥合他们的公共和私人生活,并成为整个家庭的关键设备,从而实现“远程育儿”。最后,我概述了由于公共场合使用手机而出现的紧张局势。在文化传播中,关于手机与公共生活的关系的恐惧和焦虑反映了以前公共场所中电子媒体的恐惧和焦虑。综上所述,该项目通过关注持续而相辅相成的图像和话语,弥补了移动电话研究中的空白,这些图像和话语构成了对美国社会对技术的文化期望和理解的框架。

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  • 作者

    Pitcher, Karen Christine.;

  • 作者单位

    The University of Iowa.;

  • 授予单位 The University of Iowa.;
  • 学科 American Studies.; Speech Communication.; Mass Communications.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2006
  • 页码 191 p.
  • 总页数 191
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 语言学;传播理论;
  • 关键词

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