- Title
- Why care about sharing?: Shared phones and shared networks in rural areas: African trends
- Creator
- Dalvit, Lorenzo
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158639
- Identifier
- vital:40217
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC159490
- Description
- Tomi Ahonen, credited with introducing the concept of mobile as the seventh mass media, notes that the arrival of the mobile phone was a God-send for advertisers, as it is the only mass medium where the audience can be accurately identified. Conversely, the pervasiveness of location-aware, multi-sensor, permanently on and constantly connected devices raised privacy concerns about carrying "little brother" in your pocket at all times. One of the distinctive characteristics of mobile phones, setting them apart from all previous media, is the fact that they are personal devices: 60% of married users would not let their spouse access their mobile phone and, not surprisingly, teenagers are even less inclined to let their family members have a look at their device. Things have not always been so. In South Africa, research conducted among university students revealed that for many a hand-me-down phone the size of a brick and shared with siblings was their first mobile device.
- Format
- 4 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Rhodes Journalism Review, Dalvit, Lorenzo. Why care about sharing? Shared phones and shared netowrks in rural areas: African trends. Rhodes Journalism Review, 2014. September (34), pp. 81-84, Rhodes Journalism Review volume 34 number 81 84 September 2014
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