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Title: Telephone:%20Bell%20to%20Cellphones

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Telephone Bell to Cellphones
IS146 Foundations of New Media

Prof. Marc Davis, Prof. Peter Lyman, and danah
boyd
UC Berkeley SIMS
Tuesday and Thursday 200 pm 330 pm
Spring 2005
http//www.sims.berkeley.edu/academics/courses/is1
46/s05/

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Lecture Overview

Administrivia
Review of Last Time
How a Telephone and Telephone Network Work
Today
The Telephone from Bell to Cellphones
Guest Lecturer Genevieve Bell
Preview of Next Time
Social Uses of Mobile Phones

3
Lecture Overview

Administrivia
Review of Last Time
How a Telephone and Telephone Network Work
Today
The Telephone from Bell to Cellphones
Guest Lecturer Genevieve Bell
Preview of Next Time
Social Uses of Mobile Phones

4
Check-in

Questions? Concerns?
danahs office hours
5-6PM today in South Hall 303A

5
Readings for Next Time

Mizuko Ito and Daisuke Okabe. Technosocial
Situations Emergent Structurings of Mobile Email
Use. 2003, p.1-30.
(scan) Cheskin Research. The Wireless Future - A
Look at Youth Unplugged. Redwood Shores,
California Cheskin Research. 2001, p.1-32.
Discussion Questions ??
We will also do Discussion Questions for Salen
Zimmerman on Tuesday

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Lecture Overview

Administrivia
Review of Last Time
How a Telephone and Telephone Network Work
Today
The Telephone from Bell to Cellphones
Guest Lecturer Genevieve Bell
Preview of Next Time
Social Uses of Mobile Phones

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Information Theory

Quantitatively studies information flow how
people send and receive information
Meaning is irrelevant to information
Information measures uncertainty
Quantification of stimuli / signals
Measure of freedom in decision making
Noise is interference in the signal
Fun is struggle against noise and uncertainty

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Lecture Overview

Administrivia
Review of Last Time
How a Telephone and Telephone Network Work
Today
The Telephone from Bell to Cellphones
Guest Lecturer Genevieve Bell
Preview of Next Time
Social Uses of Mobile Phones

9
America Calling

Claude Fischer
Sociologist at Berkeley
Studies social networks of people
America Calling A Social History of the
Telephone to 1940
Historical sociological approach
Question the business and techno-centric
histories of the telephone, challenge assumptions
about the phones role

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Telephone as Savior

Increased social solidarity from family to
occupation/taste culture
Eliminate spatial divide in society
Force for democracy (no central authority for
communication)
Enrich social ties - a nation of neighbors
Help rural people overcome isolation
(All speculations)

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Telephone as Destroyer

Weakens local community
Creation of alert, tense, speedy frame
Make people expect immediacy
Disrupt the private, domestic sphere
Or discourage people from engaging in the public
Dismembered voices
(All speculations)

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Fischers Project

Diffusion who adopted the telephone?
When? Where? How? Why? For what ends? To
what uses?
Not about impacts or effects
Integration of phone into daily life
Where in regular activities?
How do people use it?
What can we infer about its social role?

13
The Telephone in America

History of telephone, pieced together through old
documents (mostly PR material)
Valuable for considering assumptions based on
what you now know about the phone
Highlights
Assumed to be business tool (physicians were
among earliest adopters)
Economic tensions played a critical role
Party lines vehicle for mass adoption

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Lecture Overview

Administrivia
Review of Last Time
How a Telephone and Telephone Network Work
Today
The Telephone from Bell to Cellphones
Guest Lecturer Genevieve Bell
Preview of Next Time
Social Uses of Mobile Phones

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Genevieve Bell

Genevieve Bell is a Senior Researcher within
Intel Research. She is a member of Peoples and
Practices Research an interdisciplinary team of
research social scientists and designers embedded
within Intel's advanced research and development
labs. Since joining Intel, Bell has conducted
ethnographic research in a variety of consumer
spaces, including malls, retail districts, and
museums, as well as within a range of different
American households. Bell has also conducted
significant research beyond the US, including a
five-country, strategically situated,
ethnographic study of European domestic spaces
for several Intel product groups, and a study of
the emerging middle classes in China and India.
She is particularly interested in issues of
cultural difference as they are expressed around
technology adoption and use.
Bell has recently completed a three year research
project focused on gaining a better understanding
of the ways in which cultural practices in urban
Asia are shaping people's relationships to new
information and communication technologies. As
part of this project, she has conducted
ethnographic fieldwork in 7 Asian countries,
encompassing 100 households in 17 different
cities. Insights gained from this project have
shaped product offerings, investment decisions
and strategic planning at Intel.
Prior to joining Intel in 1998, Bell taught
anthropology and Native American Studies at
Stanford University. Bell received her BA/MA in
anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in
Pennsylvania in 1991. She earned a PhD in
cultural anthropology from Stanford University in
1998. She is working on a book based on her
fieldwork in Asia.