Kyoung-hwa, Yonnie. “The landscape of keitai shôsetsu: Mobile phones as a literary medium among Japanese youth, Continuum.” Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 26.3 (2012): 475-485.
The author notes that the use of mobile phones in sending message is in the increase in the current Japanese society. Apart from the use of mobile phones and the media in relaying information, some other channels are used including literary communication and oral conversation. The author underscores the fact that the use of mobile phones in transmitting messages in the Japanese society is in the increase.
In order to understand the persistent use of phones as a literary medium in Japan, the author compared the new trend with the influence of the popular novel in society. He uses the term keitai shoˆsetsu, which means mobile novel. The trend is gaining much popularity among young Japanese women (Kyoung-hwa 477).
The author understands the behavior of women regarding the use of mobile novels from a cultural perspective meaning that it is a culture of Japanese women to associate themselves with the mobile novels. The author describes the views of various readers and writers regarding the culture of Japanese women, which is related to mobile novel.
The author utilizes some ethnographic reports and other materials to understand mobile novel phenomenon in detail. For instance, a social discourse is one of the additional factors that the author uses in comprehending the behavior of young Japanese women regarding mobile novel trend. Some factors, such as the factors related to the industry, are some of the features that influence the behavior of Japanese women in relation to mobile novel phenomenon.
The mobile media influences the behavior of individuals in society in a number of ways. For instance, it influences the lifestyles of individuals and their socialization processes. In the long-run, an individual adopts a different culture, which grows with time into something complex.
The culture is adopted by a number of individuals in society to an extent of becoming a normal way of life. In other words, the author suggests that the mobile technology has been able to translate and modify the culture of Japanese youngsters.
The author is able to support his arguments through the use of ethnographic reports. The author came up with three major questions that assisted him in confirming the hypothesis. In the first question, his main concern was establishing the relationship between keitai and the fictitious practice referred to as ‘doing keitai shoˆsetsu.
The second question aimed at capturing the manner in which keitai shoˆsetsu consumers essentially integrate keitai into their customary activities such as texting, reading, and sharing remarks. The third question was very important because it sought to find out the meaning that people attach to keitai shoˆsetsu.
Through the questions, the author collected enough information that helped him in concluding that a strong relationship between mobile novel and the culture of young Japanese women exists. The author is very consistent meaning that he does not contradict any of his arguments. The arguments are valid because they are supported by critical sources and evidence.
It is noted that the author fails to mention some of the effects of mobile phones on the socialization and behavior of users. Phones have certain effects, which are social in nature meaning that they should be used with care. The use of the phone is addictive because an individual is influenced negatively to suspend the use of other channels of communication.
Even though he notes that phone users are forced to spend heavily on phone accessories, he does not mention the fact that operating the phone is expensive for youngster. Moreover, the concentration of the phone user is always distracted because he or she does not have time to concentrate on other things.
The article contributes to the existing body of knowledge that is related to mobile phones in a number of ways. First, it states clearly that mobile phone usage leads to the development of a certain culture among the users. The users develop the culture and they pass it to other members of society through the process of socialization. This is actually the effect of most technologies because they change the world view of the user.
However, the article does not address the issue of resistance because no technology will ever penetrate society without meeting some resistance. Mobile phone technology has always been viewed with contempt because it brings about other social crimes. In other words, the author does not talk about the negative effects of mobile phones among the young Japanese females.
Hjorth, Larissa, and Kay, Gu. “The place of emplaced visualities: A case study of Smartphone visuality and location-based social media in Shanghai, China, Continuum.” Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 26(5) (2012): 699-713.
The authors observe that the modern society is witnessing various forms of visual technologies, especially with the growth of camera phones. The new phones have various features such as micro blogging and the location-based services, which have facilitated image distribution among individuals. Through location-based services such as Facebook, people are able to generate contexts for the overlay between place, ambient images, and striking localities.
The new technology is reshaping the way people communicate. There are flourishing dialectic visual images, which replicate the notion of place, social, and uniqueness practices. The authors note further that sharing, storing, and saving of information play a critical role in information technology.
The Smartphone enables the new forms of information distribution such as hipstamatic (Hjorth and Kay, 700). An advanced Smartphone, such as android-based, has influenced the lives of many youths in different ways. The emergence of new technology, such as micro blogging, has enabled users to apply the technology successfully with the Smartphone. It is claimed that the Chinese public has been able to voice its views and opinions through the new technology.
The idea of media participation is now perceived differently since the emergence of the new technology. This shows that the society has grown in terms of technology. The authors suggest that the Chinese culture is very different, but it is consistent with the new technology. In other societies, such as those of the west, lurking is considered non-participation. However, it is a valid participation technique in the Chinese culture.
The arguments of the authors are based on the idea that modern technology has transformed the way people relay information. The authors support their arguments by claiming that the social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, offer people with specific skills that can easily affect the way in which people pass information in organizations and social life. For instance, Facebook offers a micro-blogging UX. This facilitates the redistribution of information, asking of questions and finding knowledge.
Information distribution does not follow any standardized structure in the cloud computing technology. Micro-blogging is a form of technology used in cloud computing, which utilizes the services of CRM. Through CRM technology, an individual or a company can pass updates to other individuals regarding unusual events and actions. The following chart shows cloud computing layers.
The findings of the two authors fail appreciate the fact that cloud computer exploit customers. This is because customers boost the sales of the company yet they are not paid. For instance, each person is expected to create his Facebook, Twitter, and Google accounts without the help of the company. This amounts to exploitation because it would be expected that the company open an account for each customer.
Companies have free access to labor because customers are employees who are not paid. However, it is surprising to note that customers are always inconvenienced because they lack privacy. When opening a Facebook account, a customer is supposed to disclose pertinent information, such as age, sex, occupation, and academic qualifications.
The article contributes to the existing body of knowledge since it states that cloud technology is different because it uses information from computers as a collective virtual computer. This means that all applications have the capacity of running independently, without relying on servers or server configurations. In other words, cloud technology allows information to float around freely.
This implies that the hardware is not important when applying the cloud technology. Many youths are able to communicate freely without necessarily having to acquire the hardware. This has strengthened the way people communicate in society.
Works Cited
Hjorth, Larissa, and Kay, Gu. “The place of emplaced visualities: A case study of Smartphone visuality and location-based social media in Shanghai, China, Continuum.” Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 26(5) (2012): 699-713.
Kyoung-hwa, Yonnie. “The landscape of keitai shôsetsu: Mobile phones as a literary medium among Japanese youth, Continuum.” Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 26.3 (2012): 475-485.