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
Lectures
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31/05/2019
Kaufmann, Katja
Smartphone-Methoden und ihre Forschungsethik am Beispiel der Digital Migration Studies [Smart Phone Methods and their Ethics, based on the example of Digital Migration Studies]
Universitätsöffentliche Präsentation der Dissertation im Rahmen der Defensio, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt -
08/03/2018
, London
Kaufmann, Katja
When digital connectivity enables physical mobility: The case of Syrian refugees using smartphones on their journey to Austria
LSE Research Dialogue: Keyword 'Mobility' -
28/09/2017
, Lisbon
Kaufmann, Katja
When doing audience research becomes ethically and personally challenging: The case of refugees’ smartphone use on their journey to Europe
Audiences 2030 conference of the CEDAR network and the Audience and Reception Studies sections of ECREA and YECREA -
09/11/2016
, Prague
Kaufmann, Katja Peil, Corinna
Carrying media diaries into the future: how WhatsApp enhances self-reporting methodologies
6th European Communication Conference (ECREA) -
05/11/2015
, Berlin
Kaufmann, Katja
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]
Jahrestagung "Medienkommunikation zwischen Komplexität und Vereinfachung - Konzepte, Methoden, Praxis" -
25/06/2015
, Tartu
Kaufmann, Katja
Beyond media reception: Developing material artefacts as part of today's everyday media use
ECREA Audience and Reception Studies Conference 2015: Audience Research in a 'Post-Media' Age -
23/06/2015
, Klagenfurt
Kaufmann, Katja
Die Aneignung und Nutzung mobiler app-basierter Endgeräte als ausdifferenzierende Entwicklung materieller Interfaces
Universitätsöffentliche Präsentation des Dissertationsvorhabens vor dem Doktoratsbeirat Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt -
07/05/2015
, Copenhagen
Kaufmann, Katja
Researching Cross-Media Practices: The Smartphone as a Snapshot of its Use
International Conference "Users across Media" -
03/04/2014
, Lisbon
Kaufmann, Katja Winter, Carsten
Mobile media practices: The transforming role of the smartphone in everyday shopping contexts
International Conference on (New) Audience Practices
Books and Monographs
Articles and Book Chapters
Articles and Book Chapters
- . (2020). The Mobile Instant Messaging Interview (MIMI): Using WhatsApp to enhance self-reporting and explore media usage in-situ. Mobile Media &Amp; Communication, 8, 229-246. doi:10.1177/2050157919852392
- . (2018). Navigating a new life: Syrian refugees and their smartphones in Vienna. Information, Communication &Amp; Society: Aoir Special Issue, 21, 882-898. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2018.1437205
- . (2018). 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]. In M. Prinzing, Köberer, N., & Schröder, M. (Eds.), Migration, Integration, Inklusion. Medienethische Herausforderungen und Potentiale für die digitale Mediengesellschaft (pp. 135-150). Baden-Baden: Nomos.
- . (2018). The smartphone as a snapshot of its use: Mobile media elicitation in qualitative interviews. Mobile Media &Amp; Communication: Special Issue On Mobile Methods, 6, 233-246. doi:10.1177/2050157917743782
- . (2015). Die Rolle des Smartphones im Einkaufsalltag: Erkenntnisse aus einer qualitativen Nutzerstudie [The role of the smartphone in everyday shopping culture: Insights from a qualitative user study]. Kommunikation @ Gesellschaft, 26. Retrieved from http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-423023
- . (2014). Ordinary people: Gewöhnliche Leute als Unternehmer ihrer Popkultur [Ordinary people. Ordinary people as managers of their pop culture]. In U. Breitenborn, Düllo, T., & Birke, S. (Eds.), Gravitationsfeld Pop: Was kann Pop? Was will Popkulturwirtschaft? Konstellationen in Berlin und anderswo (pp. 339-351). Bielefeld: transcript.