The Gift of the Gab?: A Design Oriented Sociology of Young People's Use of Mobiles

By Alex S Taylor, Richard H. R. Harper. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2003

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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Adoption of Mobile Internet Services: An Exploratory Study of Mobile Commerce Early Adopters (2005, methodology): “Among these explanations are the suggestion that the adoption behavior can be illuminated by a “theory of fashion” [34], by the use of services as “ritual gift giving” [25], by treating the mobile phone as “symbolic capital,” [32] or as an instrument in “family differentiation and a symbol of indivi”
The Rules of Beeping: Exchanging Messages Via Intentional "Missed Calls" on Mobile Phones (2007, background): “These messages serve to nurture or reinforce relationships between friends, family, or romantic interests (EllwoodClayton, 2003; Taylor & Harper, 2003; Thurlow & Brown, 2003).”
The ubiquitous camera: an in-depth study of camera phone use (2005, background): “Such areas of research are themselves relatively new although some seminal work has been done [3,4].”
Mediating intimacy: designing technologies to support strong-tie relationships (2005, background): “These include: online questionnaires and surveys [3, 7]; data logs [14]; longitudinal focus group [28]; interviews [18]; and written reflections [24].”
Invisible at Work (2013, background): “…(Spoor & Williams, 2007), and they are also biased toward making more personalized attributions of others’ actions, even when there is information to suggest more alternative, benign explanations (fenigstein & Vanable, 1992; Smith & Williams, 2004; Taylor & Harper, 2003; Vorauer & Ross, 1993).”
You Watch, You Give, and You Engage: A Study of Live Streaming Practices in China (2018, background): “se, but also a social interaction for circulating guanxi and keeping ‘face’ [40]. Virtual gifts also act as channels supporting social dialogues [16], ‘currency’ of social capital [40], and souvenirs [34]. Our findings echo previous research about live streaming as a virtual third place [8], or info”
R U There? Ostracism by Cell Phone Text Messages. (2004, background): “There is evidence that text message communication can have a profound effect on an individual’s emotions (Taylor & Harper, 2003).”
A corpus linguistics study of SMS text messaging (2009, background): “Two areas of text message research, sociocultural studies carried out by Taylor and Harper (2003), Kasesniemi and Rautianen (2002) and other social scientists, and the data-based linguistic research of Hard af Segersteg (2002) and Thurlow and Brown (2003) among others, show many overlaps in terms of”
The Effects of Cell Phone Usage Rules on Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships (2012, background): “In fact, Taylor and Harper (2003) explained that a text message is often perceived as a socially acceptable gift that strengthens a preexisting relationship.”
An analysis of young people's use of and attitudes toward cell phones (2003, background): “Taylor and Harper (2001) noted that young people use cell phones, especially their text-messaging feature, as forms of gifts that are ‘‘exchanged in performances that have specific meanings in young people s daily lives and are played out with the intent to cement social relationships’’ (p. 5).”