Ruth kikin-Gil:// ruth@ruthkikin.com
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My Masters degree thesis : Mediating social relatiionship through mobile communication
A work in progress. Last updated March 30th 2005
INTRODUCTION
The secret lives of teenagers
 
    THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
The theory behind the design. The social aspects and trends which informed and influenced the design
 
 
USER RESEARCH
Making the teenagers part of the design
THE DESIGN
SCENARIO
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tHEORETICAL FRAMEWORK : Adolescence, groups, behaviors, fashion and mobile communication

In this section I will describe my work assumptions and theoretical background which my design concepts are based upon. I will examine how new technologies were catalysts for social changes, explore the role of social groups in teenagers' lives, look at the importance of nonverbal and encoded communication among humans and see what is the connection between phones and fashion I will then review some of the new trends which are relevant to my thesis. These trends emerged as the result of the dispersion of mobile technology, and influenced the teenage behavior.

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References

1. Berg Sara, Harper, Richard, Taylor, Alex S., “Mobile phones for the next generation: device designs for teenagers” In Proceedings of the conference on Human factors in computing systems, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA 2003 pp. 433 - 440 

2. Canfield, Allan, Ph.D., “Body, Identity and Interaction: Interpreting Nonverbal Communication” http://canfield.etext.net/

3 Castells Manuel., “The Rise of the Network Society”, Malden , MA : Blackwell Publishing, 1996.

4. DeVito, J. A., & Hecht, M. L. The Nonverbal Communication Reader. Prospect Heights , IL : Waveland Press, Inc. (1990)

5. Donath Judith and Boyd, Danah, “Public displays of connection” in BT Technology Journal , Vol 22 No 4, (October 2004) 71-82,

6. Goffman Erving, Ritual Interaction: Essays on face to face behavior. NY, Pantheon books, (1967), 12-13

7. Harper, Richard. ‘Are Mobiles Good or Bad for Society?’ in Nyiri, K. (Ed.) Mobile Communication: Social and Political Effects, Vienna: Passagen Verlag, (2003) 185-214

8. Herring, S. C. (Ed). Computer-mediated communication: Linguistic, social and cross-cultural perspectives. Philadelphia , PA : John Benjamins Publishing Co. (1996)

9. Hulme, Michael, Sue Peters “Me, my phone and I: The role of the mobile phone”, research held by Teleconomy research house, Lancaster, England (2004) www.cs.colorado.edu/~palen/ chi_workshop/papers/HulmePeters.pdf

10. Ito, Joi, Full-Time Intimate Community, Joi.Ito.com, March 27 2004,

11. Ito, Mizuko and Daisuke Okabe.. "Technosocial Situations: Emergent Structuring of Mobile Email Use." In Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda Eds., Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Cambridge: MIT Press. (2005)

12. Ling, Richard “The mobile connection: The cell phone’s impact on society”, Morgan-Kaufman publishers, CA, USA, (2004)

13. Muuss, Rolf E. 1982. Theories of adolescence. Bnei-Brak, Israel, Sifriat Poalim. pp.75-76

14. Maffesoli, Michel, “Post-Modern tribes and communication”, A talk given on August 19th 2004 in ISEA2004 conference, Helsinki , Finland .

15. Postman, Neil “End of education; redefining the value of school”, Alfred A. Knopf 1996

16. Skog Berit. 2002. Mobiles and The Norwegian teen: identity, gender and class. In Aakhus , Mark & Katz, James (eds ). Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Tal k, and Public Performance . Cambridge University Press. pp.255-273

17. van Blokland, Arjen ‘Girl's Talk!’, for Japan.com, 9.2.2004

18. Wellman Barry, “Physical place and CyberPlace: The rise of personalized networking” , International journal of urban andregional research Vol. 25, No. 2, Blackwell Publishing , 2001 p.228

19. R 2 many txt msgs bad 4 U? , Monday, January 24, 2005, Mobile report forum

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