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Defining the mobile-digital situation within perpetual telecopresence: An exploratory study of the impact of mobile phones on the life-world

Defining the mobile-digital situation within perpetual telecopresence: An exploratory study of... This study explores the impact of mobile phone use on the structure of the life-world and the process of defining the situation. The findings from data collected from five focus groups (N = 38) and 26 in-depth interviews (N = 28) suggest that, as mobile phones become normalized within personal relationships, people develop a sense of perpetual telecopresence with their significant others (i.e., best friends, romantic partners, close family members). Additionally, since the mobile-digital situation is dislocated, very little empirical information is available for defining the situation; consequently, definitions of the mobile-digital situation are based upon imagined-empirical information relative to the relational identities of the interlocutors. Moreover, cognitive involvement becomes a central dynamic for any definitions of the mobile-digital situation. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Sociological Spectrum Taylor & Francis

Defining the mobile-digital situation within perpetual telecopresence: An exploratory study of the impact of mobile phones on the life-world

Sociological Spectrum , Volume 36 (4): 28 – Jul 3, 2016
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Taylor & Francis
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Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN
1521-0707
eISSN
0273-2173
DOI
10.1080/02732173.2015.1137254
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Abstract

This study explores the impact of mobile phone use on the structure of the life-world and the process of defining the situation. The findings from data collected from five focus groups (N = 38) and 26 in-depth interviews (N = 28) suggest that, as mobile phones become normalized within personal relationships, people develop a sense of perpetual telecopresence with their significant others (i.e., best friends, romantic partners, close family members). Additionally, since the mobile-digital situation is dislocated, very little empirical information is available for defining the situation; consequently, definitions of the mobile-digital situation are based upon imagined-empirical information relative to the relational identities of the interlocutors. Moreover, cognitive involvement becomes a central dynamic for any definitions of the mobile-digital situation.

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Sociological SpectrumTaylor & Francis

Published: Jul 3, 2016

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