This really unclear picture is from Telset Magazine (edisi 74 July 2007, p.16), one of the many handphone magazines in Indonesia. It shows a queue […] Read More
Category: mobile phone
Of course all posts have something to do with the mobile phone & identity
Yesterday I visited Roxy Mas in the Cideng neighborhood just west of central Jakarta. According to most people Roxy Mas and neigboring Roxy Square is […] Read More
Lucky capture while drinking coffee in a downstairs coffee bar in Mall Ambassador. People at all tables seemed very engaged in their mobile media, yet […] Read More
It’s great to be back in Jakarta! Yesterday I looked for a room for the coming weeks. Today I went to Mall Ambassador, Jl. Satrio/Casablanca. […] Read More
The last three days I have been at the Mobile Media 2007 conference, organized by Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth. The conference was held at […] Read More
Another outdoors advertisement, shot already a few months ago in Amsterdam. The ad says “Who do I want to be today?”. Options are: kroegtijger (don’t […] Read More
A week or two ago (just before the migration of this blog the a new server) I walked past an outdoors advertisement in Amsterdam, near […] Read More
Source – via Textually.org. A study by Nielsen Media Research suggests that the type of phone you wear says something about your personality: What your […] Read More
Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf has an article about environmental problems that arise because of people putting mobile phones and other gadgets like iPods in the […] Read More
This is the poster presentation I gave a while ago at the conference Virtual Ethnography in Contemporary Social Science, organized by The Virtual Knowledge Studio. […] Read More
Strange name indeed for a phone vendor. They sell all kinds of moderately recent phones there, from 4900 naira (~= 30 euros) up to 45000 […] Read More
Anywhere you go, people have started their own enterprise by putting down a parasol and a table. When you want to make a phone call […] Read More
Somwhere in Kaduna. The “Xtra Connect” offer by South-African corporation MTN means calling cheaper to family or friends (“Call 3 family & friends @ 25k/sec”). […] Read More
Advertisement for mobile phone operator, 28 nov. ’06 Kaduna Nigeria. Interestingly, you hardly see any mobile phone actually being used by people on the ads […] Read More
Pic taken November 27 2006 at Abuja supermarket.
Today we were in Kaduna to meet the folks from Newage Film Company. Nothing spacy in long robes but a professionally looking company. Esther talked […] Read More
oh, and i just posted these last 2 items from my mobile phone…well done MTN for having gprs access in nigeria!
Anybody can upload a short mobile phone clip to the website 15×15.org which is then displayed on the homepage for 15 seconds as one of […] Read More
Xen Mendelsohn from Xellular Identity has a very interesting interview with Nick Wright from Mobile Youth Trends. Nick is co-author of the mobileYouth 2006 report. […] Read More
Hey, there are people inspired by me :). Check out Darryl Cressman’s article about mobile gifting. Darryl is from the School of Communication, at Simon […] Read More