Intimate Connections: Contextualizing Japanese Youth and Mobile Messaging
Intimate Connections: Contextualizing Japanese Youth and Mobile Messaging
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亲密联系：日本年轻人和移动消息的情境化
DOI：
10.1007/1-4020-3060-6_7
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发表时间：
2006
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影响因子：
0.2
通讯作者：
Daisuke Okabe
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作者：
Mizuko Ito;Daisuke Okabe
自从NTT Docomo于1999年推出i-mode移动互联网服务以来，国际社会一直把日本视为孕育未来无线革命的温床。特别是，国际科技界已经注意到并经常赞扬日本电子制造商的手机设计，第三代基础设施，视频和照相手机，以及移动娱乐。然而，对不断更新的先进技术功能的关注往往会忽视当代日本移动媒体构建和发展的社会、历史和文化背景。正如Harper（2003,187）所说，“移动社会并没有将我们的社会呈现为某种新的形式，相反，它使已经存在了一段时间的相同社会模式以微小但具有社会意义的方式发展。”在本章中，我们分析了日本年轻人的信息传递行为是现有历史、社会和文化因素的结果，而不是由新技术的内在逻辑推动的。
Ever since NTT Docomo launched its i-mode mobile Internet service in 1999, international attention has been trained on Japan as a hothouse for incubating the future of the wireless revolution. In particular, international technology communities have noted and often celebrated handset design by Japanese electronic manufacturers, third generation infrastructures, video and camera phones, and mobile entertainment. A focus on ever-new advanced technical functionality, however, can often lose sight of the social, historical, and cultural context through which contemporary Japanese mobile media is structured and has evolved. As Harper (2003, 187) has argued, “mobile society is not rendering our society into some new form, it is rather, enabling the same social patterns that have been in existence for some time to evolve in small but socially significant ways.” In this chapter, we analyze messaging practices of Japanese youth as an outcome of existing historical, social, and cultural factors rather than as something driven forward by the inherent logic of new technology.