Outwardly Mobile:

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Outwardly Mobile

• Exploring the relationship between the personhood
  and preferences of mobile phone styles
• MCIS, Chia-Chien Liang

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Machine is becoming us

• Self-presentation vs. mobile phone use
• Expression and projection of the self-identity
  with the machine
• Construction and display of personal identities
  via the mediation of mobile devices

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Symbolic Value

• Machine is working beyond its functions and
  features
• Fashion and style of a phone is significant
• Consumption of the mobile phone is connected with
  the image of personhood

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Research Questions

• Q1 what