Hi,
below is the link to an article/research summary about the usage of camera
enabled phones by today's kids. Its in Japanese, but some of the main points
are:
* most sent messages with attached pictures are considered "live messages".
Either there is a meaning in the picture to be sent to someone NOW, or it
makes sense to take and send that picture NOW with a special person in mind,
who to sent it to. Its mostly things that the sender is seeing right now, or
eating right now, things that are happening in his/her life right now.
* accordingly, most of the text messages with such attached pictures contain
words like "here", "there" etc.
* Furthermore, with the recently popular video mail function, kids seem to
not so much take and send video of themselves (as they do with still pics),
but of things around them (while walking, while turning around, while
playing in the playground or park etc.) The camera phone is used like a
(video) camera to film one's own life.
The report concludes that this new media may have profound (and mostly
positive) effects on the lifes and the communication of today's kids, who
are growing up with these kind of technologies the same way today's people
in their 30s and 40s grew up with the TV, and who are more encouraged to
keep other people's perspective in mind by growing up with interactive media
used on a daily basis.
Full text:
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20030311-00000057-zdn-sci
I wonder if the usage of camera enabled phones by adults is so much
different though, or if its just that kids are so much more used to the
devices?!
Cheers,
Andrea
Received on Wed Mar 12 08:44:45 2003