Mobile things—lost, found, and made

IF 3.1 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
K. Jensen
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Destination Earth (DE) refers to an initiative by the European Union, launched in 2022, to build and maintain “a highly accurate digital model of Earth to monitor the effects of natural and human activity on our planet, anticipate extreme events and adapt policies to climate-related challenges” (European Space Agency, 2022, n.p.). Compared to the cyberspace widely celebrated as a realm apart, from the 1990s and into the 2000s, DE is a particularly ambitious example of the so-called digital twins (Savage, 2022) that promise to reintegrate online and offline realities in a new category of infrastructure, namely, the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) (Bunz & Meikle, 2018)—which the field of media and communication research has barely begun to address. As I review the schedule of the 2022 Paris meeting of the International Communication Association to prepare for a hybrid online–offline reunion against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, a search for the text string “internet of things” returns neither session headings nor paper titles—none. The subfield coming together in the pages of Mobile Media & Communication, from the outset, raised shared and foundational questions concerning the definition and delimitation of media, communication, and mobility. What, indeed, is mobile about mobile media and communication (Jensen, 2013)? Ten years on, IoT is reiterating and radicalizing the conceptual and methodological challenges. From early feature phones to current smartphones, mobile media enabled users to move about as they communicated, to maintain contact with individuals and objects of interest elsewhere, to interact with other subjects, and to act on things at a distance. With mobile media, entire contexts of private and
移动的东西——丢失、发现和制造
目的地地球(DE)是指欧盟于2022年发起的一项倡议,旨在建立和维护“一个高度准确的地球数字模型,以监测自然和人类活动对我们星球的影响,预测极端事件,并调整政策以应对气候相关挑战”(欧洲航天局,2022,n.p.),从20世纪90年代到21世纪初,DE是所谓数字双胞胎(Savage,2022)的一个特别雄心勃勃的例子,它们承诺将在线和离线现实重新纳入一个新的基础设施类别,即新兴的物联网(IoT)(Bunz&Meikle,2018),而媒体和通信研究领域几乎还没有开始解决这个问题。当我回顾国际传播协会2022年巴黎会议的日程安排,为新冠肺炎疫情背景下的线上线下混合聚会做准备时,搜索文本字符串“物联网”既不会返回会议标题,也不会返回论文标题-无。从一开始,《移动媒体与通信》页面上的子领域就提出了关于媒体、通信和移动的定义和定界的共同的基本问题。移动媒体和通信究竟是什么(Jensen,2013)?十年过去了,物联网正在重申并激进化概念和方法上的挑战。从早期的功能手机到现在的智能手机,移动媒体使用户能够在交流时四处走动,与其他地方感兴趣的个人和物体保持联系,与其他主体互动,并在远处对事物采取行动。有了移动媒体,私人和
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CiteScore
9.40
自引率
16.30%
发文量
36
期刊介绍: Mobile Media & Communication is a peer-reviewed forum for international, interdisciplinary academic research on the dynamic field of mobile media and communication. Mobile Media & Communication draws on a wide and continually renewed range of disciplines, engaging broadly in the concept of mobility itself.
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