{"id":34,"date":"2006-03-21T19:25:56","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T17:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/21\/mobile-phones-social-inclusion\/"},"modified":"2009-09-08T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T11:30:13","slug":"mobile-phones-social-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/21\/mobile-phones-social-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phones &#038; social inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny, yesterday I discussed my preliminary paper on mobile communication as gift-culture (following the well-known anthropological classic by Marcel Mauss) together with my colleague PhD students. At one point we were talking about the consequences of this gift-exchange view, whether this would mean that people not in the gift-circle (have-nots or want-nots) would be left out of the circle. I said yes, definitely. And here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textually.org\/textually\/archives\/2006\/03\/011866.htm\">post on textuality.org<\/a> that seems to confirm this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a new study, the new social outcasts are teenagers and young adults without mobile phones. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/technology\/why-mobiles-are-shrines-to-selfimage\/2006\/03\/20\/1142703262375.html\">;The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>; reports.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile phones are the portals to friendships and social networks, the ultimate measure of social status and portable shrines to self-image, he says. And if no one&#8217;s calling, there&#8217;s little shame in programming your phone to ring you, checking for non-existent text messages or talking up a storm with an imaginary friend.<\/p>\n<p>Katz says. &#8220;To not have a phone feels like social banishment. It really is an issue of being excluded, of being an outsider.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny, yesterday I discussed my preliminary paper on mobile communication as gift-culture (following the well-known anthropological classic by Marcel Mauss) together with my colleague PhD [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/21\/mobile-phones-social-inclusion\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[80,157,92],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-gifting","tag-mobile-phone","tag-social-inclusion"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}