Domesticating New Media: A Discussion on Locating Mobile Media
The extract from domesticating new media: a discussion on locating mobile media by Larissa Hjorth, compares mobile media technologies to a Swiss army knife, primarily because of their multiplicity of uses. Over the last twenty years or so mobile phones have been constantly changing, through the mediated and remediated methodologies that Hjorth believes are the most relevant to the study of mobile devices. The mobile phones in the 1980s were associated with well-paid professionals, although subsequently young people have adopted and adapted the mobile phone into a popular phenomenon that allows users to decorate and customize their phones with screen savers, faceplates, and phone …show more content…
The domestic technologies approach is the incorporation of science into the home; newly available tools that we use change our everyday life through being changed by creative consumptive practices (Giddings and Lister 437). We consume every new technology tool that is created; not knowing what impact it will have on each of our lives. All technologies are created scientifically, more and more screen devices are appearing in all homes, for instance, the television, laptop, Ipad and the smartphone. One main reason for this is because technologies have become cheaper, people are more expected to use them and such tools are now perceived as a common norm in society. In spite of this, each new competing device or technology isn’t necessarily very different from the other, they all contain the same main features, for example, a touch screen as well as allowing users to download their favourite games or applications. The only differences are the manufacturer of the technology or device and the way they designed it. Nowadays there are multiple different smartphones available for purchase; the shopper’s choice on the day may result from what is popular at the time of purchase and the …show more content…
The new media approach or remediation claims that new media devices are developed from continuously used existing media (Lasén and Casado 551). New technologies have been developed from various earlier technologies. Hjorth stated that, “handheld devices have come to adopt, and even supersede, many of the functions and practices of more established computers; they carry web browsers, cameras, GPS functions, email and SMS” (Giddings and Lister 438). For example, the iPhone has widened the field of telecommunication services, allowing people with one device to connect with distant communicators through speech, text messaging or emailing. Similarly, the iPhone has also reworked photography, with many photographic applications that can be downloaded to the device and used to make effects on pictures that people have taken or are taking. These examples indicate that when new digital technology applications such as photography and mobile telephony are taking part in the shaping of our relationships, they result from the remediation of features that have appealed to people and have been used multiple times before. The iPhone has also provided the idea of durable images, as each image is stored on the phone resulting in long-lasting moments. Each device is a remediation of an old device or technique that has been further
The extract from domesticating new media: a discussion on locating mobile media by Larissa Hjorth, compares mobile media technologies to a Swiss army knife, primarily because of their multiplicity of uses. Over the last twenty years or so mobile phones have been constantly changing, through the mediated and remediated methodologies that Hjorth believes are the most relevant to the study of mobile devices. The mobile phones in the 1980s were associated with well-paid professionals, although subsequently young people have adopted and adapted the mobile phone into a popular phenomenon that allows users to decorate and customize their phones with screen savers, faceplates, and phone …show more content…
The domestic technologies approach is the incorporation of science into the home; newly available tools that we use change our everyday life through being changed by creative consumptive practices (Giddings and Lister 437). We consume every new technology tool that is created; not knowing what impact it will have on each of our lives. All technologies are created scientifically, more and more screen devices are appearing in all homes, for instance, the television, laptop, Ipad and the smartphone. One main reason for this is because technologies have become cheaper, people are more expected to use them and such tools are now perceived as a common norm in society. In spite of this, each new competing device or technology isn’t necessarily very different from the other, they all contain the same main features, for example, a touch screen as well as allowing users to download their favourite games or applications. The only differences are the manufacturer of the technology or device and the way they designed it. Nowadays there are multiple different smartphones available for purchase; the shopper’s choice on the day may result from what is popular at the time of purchase and the …show more content…
The new media approach or remediation claims that new media devices are developed from continuously used existing media (Lasén and Casado 551). New technologies have been developed from various earlier technologies. Hjorth stated that, “handheld devices have come to adopt, and even supersede, many of the functions and practices of more established computers; they carry web browsers, cameras, GPS functions, email and SMS” (Giddings and Lister 438). For example, the iPhone has widened the field of telecommunication services, allowing people with one device to connect with distant communicators through speech, text messaging or emailing. Similarly, the iPhone has also reworked photography, with many photographic applications that can be downloaded to the device and used to make effects on pictures that people have taken or are taking. These examples indicate that when new digital technology applications such as photography and mobile telephony are taking part in the shaping of our relationships, they result from the remediation of features that have appealed to people and have been used multiple times before. The iPhone has also provided the idea of durable images, as each image is stored on the phone resulting in long-lasting moments. Each device is a remediation of an old device or technique that has been further