[csaa-forum] UNSW seminar - Gerard Goggin on Mobile Phone Culture

[James Donald]

University of New South Wales Media, Film & Theatre Seminars
5 p.m. Wednesday 27 April 2005
Webster Building 327

Gerard Goggin 
Mobile Phone Culture 

More people in the world now have mobile phones than fixed phones. With the
advent of text messaging, ringtones, downloads (wallpapers, games, video),
mobile advertising, the mobile's role in televisual interactivity, camera
phones, video communications, not to mention the blandishments of
m-learning, m-commerce, m-government, and m-almost-everything-else, mobiles
are a central cultural technology.  In this seminar Gerard Goggin discusses
mobile phone culture, identifying what is distinctive about this networked
technology.  He reflects upon the history of the mobile, and looks at the
case of text messaging. In the context oft developments in mobile services
that build on text messaging, such as premium rate SMS and MMS (multimedia
messaging services), he discusses the attempts to regulate (and censor)
these. Only now becoming visible, but little debated still, are the
implications for cultural citizenship of these industrial, commercial and
governmental formations, especially questions of digital commons and
peer-to-peer (p2p) for wireless and mobile networks.

Dr Gerard Goggin is an ARC Australian Research Fellow in the Centre for
Critical & Cultural Studies, University of Queensland (g.goggin at uq.edu.au;
www.gerardgoggin.net//  <http://www.gerardgoggin.net//%A0>
www.cccs.uq.edu.au; research blog:
http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~blogs/gerardgoggin/
<http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/%7Eblogs/gerardgoggin/> ).  He is editor of
''Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (UNSW Press, 2004), co-author of
'Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media'
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and working on a book on mobile phone culture
(Routledge, 2006). Gerard is a Public Member on the Telephone Information
Services Standards Council, which has been working with industry on a code
on premium mobile services.


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