Estudios comparados de percepciones y usos de la telefonía móvil en diferentes culturas

Campbell, S. A cross-cultural comparison of perceptions and uses of mobile telephony. New Media and Society 2007; 9; 343

El artículo recorre algunos estudios comparados de percepciones y usos de la telefonía móvil en diferentes culturas, y presenta los resultados de un estudio exploratorio realizado entre estudiantes universitarios de cinco culturas, a saber: hawaianos, estadounidenses continentales (no hawaianos), suecos, japoneses y taiwaneses. Los resultados son interpretados a la luz de la propuesta teórica de James E. Katz y Mark Aakhus (Katz & Aakhus, 2002: p11)(Apparatgeist) quienes han identificado tendencias comunes en el uso y concepción de la telefonía celular en diferentes culturas.

Las percepciones y usos seleccionados para examinar en el trabajo de Campbell se vinculan a los siguientes temas (ya abordados en la literatura acerca de telefonía celular):
1. La percepción de la telefonía celular como una moda.
2. Actitudes en público frente al teléfono móvil.
3. Uso del teléfono celular por seguridad.
4. Uso del teléfono celular con fines instrumentales.
5. Uso del teléfono celular con fines expresivos.

Estudios comparados referidos en el artículo:

- Oskman and Rautiainen (2003) Cómo los adolescentes de Finlandia y otros países nórdicos, usan el teléfono celular para desarrollar y mantener redes sociales.
- Caporael y Xie (2003). Comparación entre usuarios chinos y estadounidenses.
- Katz et al (2003) Korea, Estados Unidos, Namibia y Noruega.
- Katz and Aakhus (2002) Cómo integran al teléfono celular en su vida cotidiana, los jóvenes finlandeses y noruegos
- Fortunati (2002) Países de Europa occidental
- Mante (2002) Holanda y Estados Unidos
- Haddon, L. (1998)

Estos estudios se encuentran en:

Haddon, L. (1998) Il Controllo della Comunicazione. Imposizione di limiti all’uso del telefono. Published in Fortunati, L (ed.) (1998) Telecomunicando in Europa Franco Angeli, Milano (pp.195-247)

Katz, J, Aakhus, M (eds.) (2002) Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
· Mante, E. (2002) ‘The Netherlands and the USA Compared’

Katz, J. (ed.) (2003) Machines that Become Us: the Social Context of Communication Technology, New Brunswick, NJ:Transaction Publishers
· Oksman, V. and P. Rautiainen (2003) “Perhaps It Is a Body Part”: How the Mobile Phone Became an Organic Part of the Everyday Lives of Finnish Children and Teenagers’ pp. 293–308.

“Katz coined the term Apparatgeist, a combination of the term apparatus (device; mechanical or social system to achieve human ends) and Geist (mind; consciousness; spirit). The term Apparatgeist serves as a theoretical referent to the notion that devices, such as mobile phones, will take on unanticipated meanings and functions that transcend their intended use when originally placed into the marketplace or social context. The device may impose unforeseen limitations and present new opportunities for the users and for the device itself. In this way, the machines, broadly speaking,can sometimes become or shape parts of our identity. In this play on words, the machines can, then, become us. In applying this context of how personal ICTs can affect our identities and how we can affect their definitions and uses, Katz adds a valuable and compelling vantage to our perception. His construction stresses the agency of the individual and individual subcultures to make their own whatever new technology is placed before them, but it also attributes some of the shaping of those relationships to the technology itself. Many of the studies included in this volume support and usefully engage with the Apparatgeist theory.” (p 405)

Filas, Michael. Review of Machines That Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology, edited by James E. Katz. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003. 331 pp. USA The Information Society, 20: 405–408, 2004. Taylor & Francis Inc.


Otros estudios comparados:

Katz, James E., Sugiyama, Satomi (2006) Mobile phones as fashion statements: evidence from student surveys in the US and Japan. New Media Society, Apr 2006; vol. 8: pp. 321-337. Sage Publications.

Castells, M., M. Fernandez-Ardevol, J.L.Qiu and S. Araba (2007) Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Ishii, K. (2006) ‘Implications of Mobility:The Uses of Personal Communication Media in Everyday Life’, Journal of Communication 56(2): 346–65.

Ito, M., D. Okabe and M. Matsuda (eds) (2005) Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Plant, Sadie. (2001) On the Mobile. The effects of mobile telephones on social and individual life. On behalf of Motorola.

Campbell, S. A cross-cultural comparison of perceptions and uses of mobile telephony. New Media and Society 2007; 9; 343

El artículo recorre algunos estudios comparados de percepciones y usos de la telefonía móvil en diferentes culturas, y presenta los resultados de un estudio exploratorio realizado entre estudiantes universitarios de cinco culturas, a saber: hawaianos, estadounidenses continentales (no hawaianos), suecos, japoneses y taiwaneses. Los resultados son interpretados a la luz de la propuesta teórica de James E. Katz y Mark Aakhus (Katz & Aakhus, 2002: p11)(Apparatgeist) quienes han identificado tendencias comunes en el uso y concepción de la telefonía celular en diferentes culturas.

Las percepciones y usos seleccionados para examinar en el trabajo de Campbell se vinculan a los siguientes temas (ya abordados en la literatura acerca de telefonía celular):
1. La percepción de la telefonía celular como una moda.
2. Actitudes en público frente al teléfono móvil.
3. Uso del teléfono celular por seguridad.
4. Uso del teléfono celular con fines instrumentales.
5. Uso del teléfono celular con fines expresivos.

Estudios comparados referidos en el artículo:

- Oskman and Rautiainen (2003) Cómo los adolescentes de Finlandia y otros países nórdicos, usan el teléfono celular para desarrollar y mantener redes sociales.
- Caporael y Xie (2003). Comparación entre usuarios chinos y estadounidenses.
- Katz et al (2003) Korea, Estados Unidos, Namibia y Noruega.
- Katz and Aakhus (2002) Cómo integran al teléfono celular en su vida cotidiana, los jóvenes finlandeses y noruegos
- Fortunati (2002) Países de Europa occidental
- Mante (2002) Holanda y Estados Unidos
- Haddon, L. (1998)

Estos estudios se encuentran en:

Haddon, L. (1998) Il Controllo della Comunicazione. Imposizione di limiti all’uso del telefono. Published in Fortunati, L (ed.) (1998) Telecomunicando in Europa Franco Angeli, Milano (pp.195-247)

Katz, J, Aakhus, M (eds.) (2002) Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
· Mante, E. (2002) ‘The Netherlands and the USA Compared’

Katz, J. (ed.) (2003) Machines that Become Us: the Social Context of Communication Technology, New Brunswick, NJ:Transaction Publishers
· Oksman, V. and P. Rautiainen (2003) “Perhaps It Is a Body Part”: How the Mobile Phone Became an Organic Part of the Everyday Lives of Finnish Children and Teenagers’ pp. 293–308.

“Katz coined the term Apparatgeist, a combination of the term apparatus (device; mechanical or social system to achieve human ends) and Geist (mind; consciousness; spirit). The term Apparatgeist serves as a theoretical referent to the notion that devices, such as mobile phones, will take on unanticipated meanings and functions that transcend their intended use when originally placed into the marketplace or social context. The device may impose unforeseen limitations and present new opportunities for the users and for the device itself. In this way, the machines, broadly speaking,can sometimes become or shape parts of our identity. In this play on words, the machines can, then, become us. In applying this context of how personal ICTs can affect our identities and how we can affect their definitions and uses, Katz adds a valuable and compelling vantage to our perception. His construction stresses the agency of the individual and individual subcultures to make their own whatever new technology is placed before them, but it also attributes some of the shaping of those relationships to the technology itself. Many of the studies included in this volume support and usefully engage with the Apparatgeist theory.” (p 405)

Filas, Michael. Review of Machines That Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology, edited by James E. Katz. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003. 331 pp. USA The Information Society, 20: 405–408, 2004. Taylor & Francis Inc.


Otros estudios comparados:

Katz, James E., Sugiyama, Satomi (2006) Mobile phones as fashion statements: evidence from student surveys in the US and Japan. New Media Society, Apr 2006; vol. 8: pp. 321-337. Sage Publications.

Castells, M., M. Fernandez-Ardevol, J.L.Qiu and S. Araba (2007) Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Ishii, K. (2006) ‘Implications of Mobility:The Uses of Personal Communication Media in Everyday Life’, Journal of Communication 56(2): 346–65.

Ito, M., D. Okabe and M. Matsuda (eds) (2005) Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Plant, Sadie. (2001) On the Mobile. The effects of mobile telephones on social and individual life. On behalf of Motorola.