mobile phones

Among the great papers at Digital Youth East Asia was one by Sophia Tsuey-Jen Wu, Director of the Center for Media Literacy and Education at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. Using her thirteen year old daughter and her daughter's friends as her subjects, and their social circle in Taiwan as her field site, Wu discussed creative ways youth use cell phones for subjectivity and intersubjectivity and also for creating shared memories----even in circumstances where they might not actually all be at the same event.

Professor Shin Mizukoshi, of the Interfaculty Initiative on Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, is a HASTAC kindred spirit who emphasizes MELL: Media, Expression, Learning, Literacy, the need to develop creatively and think critically and learn by participating. His talk on the mobile phone at Digital Youth East Asia was as inspiring as the beautiful new Tadao Ando building that houses his program.

How many text messages can you send from one phone? From where will you update your blog if you can do so using your mobile phone? Here are some mobile phone users redefining the limits!

Mobile phones and other gadgets can and should be recycled.  Also, what happens when you get recycled information?