Abstract
The project looks into the efficacy of smartphones as mobile media technologies with particular characteristics, the most prominent of which is their new appropriation and use logic: The functions are not inscribed into these devices as it is the case with earlier media technologies. Instead, they are universal devices coupled to an app-economy. The process of personalization is an integrative part of their everyday use resulting in individually modified and thus unique smartphones with interfaces that reflect the use practices needed and wanted by the respective user at a certain time. While the project consists on the one hand of the conceptualization of this new logic, it deals on the other hand also with the arising methodological implications and potentials of mobile media technologies for media and communication research: e.g., the smartphone as a snapshot of its use that can be integrated into qualitative elicitation interviews, or the applicability of genuinely mobile apps like the messenger WhatsApp for enhancing self-reporting methodologies.
CMC Staff
Katja Kaufmann (Project Leader)
Lectures
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London
When digital connectivity enables physical mobility: The case of Syrian refugees using smartphones on their journey to Austria
Kaufmann, K. (Speaker)
8 Mar 2018 -
Lisbon
When doing audience research becomes ethically and personally challenging: The case of refugees’ smartphone use on their journey to Europe
Kaufmann, K. ((Co-)Author)
28 Sep 2017 -
University of New York in Prague
Carrying media diaries into the future: how WhatsApp enhances self-reporting methodologies
Kaufmann, K. (Speaker) & Peil, C. (Contributor)
9 Nov 2016 -
Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin
Mobil, vernetzt, geräteübergreifend: Die Komplexität alltäglicher Smartphone-Nutzung als methodische Herausforderung [Mobile, connected, across multiple devices: The complexity of everyday smartphone use as a methodical challenge]
Kaufmann, K. (Speaker)
5 Nov 2015 -
University of Tartu
Beyond media reception: Developing material artefacts as part of today's everyday media use
Kaufmann, K. (Speaker)
25 Jun 2015 -
Klagenfurt
Die Aneignung und Nutzung mobiler app-basierter Endgeräte als ausdifferenzierende Entwicklung materieller Interfaces
Kaufmann, K. (Speaker)
23 Jun 2015 -
University of Copenhagen
Researching Cross-Media Practices: The Smartphone as a Snapshot of its Use
Kaufmann, K. (Speaker)
7 May 2015 -
Lissabon
Mobile media practices: The transforming role of the smartphone in everyday shopping contexts
Kaufmann, K. (Speaker) & Winter, C. (Contributor)
3 Apr 2014
Articles and Book Chapters
- Mit Kriegsflüchtlingen über ihre Smartphone-Nutzung auf der Flucht sprechen: Eine forschungsethische (Selbst)-Reflexion. [Talking with war refugees about their smartphone use on the flight: a (self-)reflection on research ethics]. / Kaufmann, Katja; Prinzing, Marlis (Herausgeber:in); Köberer, Nina (Herausgeber:in) et al.
Migration, Integration, Inklusion. Medienethische Herausforderungen und Potentiale für die digitale Mediengesellschaft. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2018. S. 135-150. - Ordinary people: Gewöhnliche Leute als Unternehmer ihrer Popkultur [Ordinary people. Ordinary people as managers of their pop culture]. / Kaufmann, Katja; Winter, Carsten; Breitenborn, Uwe (Herausgeber:in) et al.
Gravitationsfeld Pop: Was kann Pop? Was will Popkulturwirtschaft? Konstellationen in Berlin und anderswo. Bielefeld: transcript, 2014. S. 339-351.