Audience surveillance and the right to anonymous reading in interactive mediaD

Article Abstract:

The proliferation of interactive media has provided corporations with an unprecedented ability to collect information about individuals' media consumption habits. An analysis of legal precedents, would demonstrate that the right to read anonymously is an important corollary of freedom of speech and that the ability of corporations to share information about individuals' media consumption threatens this right.

Analysis, Interactive computer systems, Interactive media, Interactive technology, Reading teachers, Reading instruction

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Emotional attachment and mobile phones

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The issues of emotional attachment and mobile phones are examined and explored. A discussion of the ways in which the mobile phone is used as a means of achieving continuous connectivity and how it acts as the conduit for emotional attachment by keeping friends and family in touch and enabling the need to maintain social and business networks is presented.

United Kingdom, Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Cellular Mobile Tel Equip, Psychological aspects, Cellular telephones, Wireless telephones, Wireless telephone, Wireless voice/data device, Business networks (Social groups)

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Your life in snapshots: Mobile Weblogs

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Moblogs or mobile weblogs, a convergence of mobile and Internet technology, provide a means for users to archive their lives via photos that can be taken via a mobile phone and viewed via the Internet. A study of the uncensored publication of everyday life offered by the weblogs is presented.

Germany, Internet, Weblogs, Blogs

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