Download or read book The Smartphone written by Elizabeth Woyke and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think we know everything about our smartphones. We use them constantly. We depend on them for every conceivable purpose. We are familiar with every inch of their compact frames. But there is more to the smartphone than meets the eye. How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact? Who tracks our actions, our preferences, our movements as recorded by our smartphones? These are just some of the questions that journalist Elizabeth Woyke answers in this muckraking expose of the $241 billion industry that produces more than 700 million devices each year. In the tradition of The Coffee Book, The Sneaker Book, Oil, and Cigarettes, The Smartphone offers not only a step-by-step guide to how smartphones are designed and manufactured but also a bold exploration of the darker side of this massive industry, including the exploitation of labor, the disposal of electronic waste, and the underground networks that hack and smuggle smartphones. Featuring interviews with key figures in the development of the smartphone and expert assessments of the industry's main players--Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung--The Smartphone is the perfect introduction to this most personal of gadgets. Your smartphone will never look the same again.

Download or read book The Global Smartphone written by Daniel Miller and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphones are technology for everyone, not just for the young. The Global Smartphone presents a series of original perspectives deriving from this global and comparative research project. Smartphones have become as much a place within which we live as a device we use to provide ‘perpetual opportunism’, as they are always with us. The authors show how the smartphone is more than an ‘app device’ and explore differences between what people say about smartphones and how they use them. The smartphone is unprecedented in the degree to which we can transform it. As a result, it quickly assimilates personal values. In order to comprehend it, we must take into consideration a range of national and cultural nuances, such as visual communication in China and Japan, mobile money in Cameroon and Uganda, and access to health information in Chile and Ireland – all alongside diverse trajectories of ageing in Al Quds, Brazil and Italy. Only then can we know what a smartphone is and understand its consequences for people’s lives around the world.

Download or read book The Smartphone Society written by Nicole Aschoff and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses how tech empowers community organizing and protest movements to combat the systems of capitalism and data exploitation that helped drive tech’s own rise to ubiquity. Our smartphones have brought digital technology into the most intimate spheres of life. It’s time to take control of them, repurposing them as pathways to a democratically designed and maintained digital commons that prioritizes people over profit. Smartphones have appeared everywhere seemingly overnight: since the first iPhone was released, in 2007, the number of smartphone users has skyrocketed to over two billion. Smartphones have allowed users to connect worldwide in a way that was previously impossible, created communities across continents, and provided platforms for global justice movements. However, the rise of smartphones has led to corporations using consumers’ personal data for profit, unmonitored surveillance, and digital monopolies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon that have garnered control over our social, political, and economic landscapes. But people are using their smartphones to fight back. New modes of resistance are emerging, signaling the possibility that our pocket computers could be harnessed for the benefit of people, not profit. From helping to organize protests against the US-Mexico border wall through Twitter to being used to report police brutality through Facebook Live, smartphones open a door for collective change.

Download or read book Sleeping with Your Smartphone written by Leslie A. Perlow and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does it have to be this way? Can’t resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? Sure, all this connectivity keeps you in touch with your team and the office—but at what cost? In Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and become more productive in the process. In fact, she shows that you can devote more time to your personal life and accomplish more at work. The good news is that this doesn’t require a grand organizational makeover or buy-in from the CEO. All it takes is collaboration between you and your team—working together and making small, doable changes. What started as an experiment with a six-person team at The Boston Consulting Group—one of the world’s elite management consulting firms—triggered a global initiative that eventually spanned more than nine hundred BCG teams in thirty countries across five continents. These teams confronted their nonstop workweeks and changed the way they worked, becoming more efficient and effective. The result? Employees were more satisfied with their work-life balance and with their work in general. And the firm was better able to recruit and retain employees. Clients also benefited—often in unexpected ways. In this engaging book, Perlow takes you inside BCG to witness the challenges and benefits of disconnecting. She provides a step-by-step guide to introducing change on your team—by establishing a collective goal, encouraging open dialogue, ensuring leadership support—and then spreading change to the rest of your firm. If you and your colleagues are grappling with the “always on” problem, it’s time to disconnect—and start reading.

Download or read book iGen written by Jean M. Twenge and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. With the first members of iGen just graduating from college, we all need to understand them: friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.

Download or read book The Smartphone Paradox written by Alan J. Reid and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smartphone Paradox is a critical examination of our everyday mobile technologies and the effects that they have on our thoughts and behaviors. Alan J. Reid presents a comprehensive view of smartphones: the research behind the uses and gratifications of smartphones, the obstacles they present, the opportunities they afford, and how everyone can achieve a healthy, technological balance. It includes interviews with smartphone users from a variety of backgrounds, and translates scholarly research into a conversational tone, making it easy to understand a synthesis of key findings and conclusions from a heavily-researched domain. All in all, through the lens of smartphone dependency, the book makes the argument for digital mindfulness in a device age that threatens our privacy, sociability, attention, and cognitive abilities.

Download or read book Outsmart Your Smartphone written by Tchiki Davis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between social media, texting, video streaming, and online shopping, many people struggle with "smartphone syndrome," and are looking to find balance in our screen-obsessed world. This is a refreshingly honest how-to guide that teaches readers how to use technology in better ways to boost happiness and improve connections and communication on- and offline.

Download or read book The Smartphone Experiment written by Pierre Khawand and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smartphone Experiment book is for business professionals who want to better understand the world of smartphones and select the one that best fits their needs. This book is not only useful for first time buyers who want to get educated quickly about the topic, but also for those considering upgrading their smartphones, and who want to become aware of the latest developments and make an informed decision.

Download or read book The Smartphone Filmmaking Handbook Second Edition written by Neil Philip Sheppard and published by Neil Philip Sheppard. This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The smartphone movie-making revolution is here! With the right knowledge and minimal equipment, everyone now has the power to make great films with their smartphone. Whether you're an aspiring filmmaker, vlogger, journalist, educator, charity worker, student, business professional, or an individual with a passion for making films, you'll find the information in this book to be an invaluable resource. You too can make great movies with the smartphone you already own and produce award-winning films for minimal cost. This book includes 28 chapters filled with expert knowledge on various topics, such as the best equipment for your budget, choosing the right camera and editing apps, lighting, sound, camera techniques, technical advice on smartphone movie-making, guides to the best video camera and editing apps, reviews on the top smartphone movie-making equipment, digital video concepts, detailed information on composition, lighting, sound recording, video editing, going live, and posting videos to the web. Additionally, the book covers how to transfer smartphone videos to a computer, filming for broadcast television and cinema, the best social media platforms for video, and budget smartphone filmmaking kits. With this comprehensive guide, you'll have all the tools and knowledge necessary to unleash your creativity and produce professional-quality films using your smartphone.

Download or read book Young People and the Smartphone written by Michela Drusian and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, smartphones and digital platforms have become essential to our lives and are now inextricably interwoven into the everyday practices of millions, especially young people. Focusing on smartphone practices and experiences of youth today, this volume is the result of empirical research based on focus groups and in-depth interviews with young people aged 18-30. Grounded in media theory and analyzed through a blended lens of media and science and technology studies, the book offers detailed and fascinating insights into the everyday use of smartphones. Topics covered include the role of the smartphone as material technology, its use in interpersonal relationships, photographic practices, music and consumer practices, along with the deconstruction of the notion of smartphone ‘addiction’.

Download or read book The Bishop the Mullah and the Smartphone written by Bryan Winters and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not so long ago the world resisted change, often using religious-reasoning. Small wonder--the printing press, a sixteenth century disruptive device, split Christianity. Now the globe welcomes digital disruption, even praising it as a solution for faltering economies. Religions don't have much choice but to follow, because information is a prime asset of faith. Believers treasure and reframe their past, and present. However, both old and current data is now available in huge quantities, visually and instantly. Movies provide more spiritual guidance than holy texts, and terror merchants use the uncontrollable Internet to gain hearts and minds. Nevertheless a turbulent re-mythologization of adherents towards peaceful versions of their belief can be tracked. There are positive things we can all do to help, which is just as well in a world that suggests only political acts count.

Download or read book Intangible assets and value capture in global value chains the smartphone industry written by World Intellectual Property Organization and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2017 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report uses data on individual smart phones as well as industry data to identify which smartphone firms capture the most value. It finds that Apple captures most of the industry profits, thanks to its high prices, large profit margins and the volume of iPhone sales worldwide. Apple’s success is explained as a result of its ability to develop its own intellectual property (IP) and take advantage of IP created by suppliers through a strategy of selling only a few models at high prices compared to competitors.

Download or read book Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age written by Dae Young Kim and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age: The Korean Community in the Nation’s Capital examines the durable ties immigrants maintain with the home country and focuses in particular on their transnational cultural activities. In light of changing technologies, especially information and communication technologies (ICTs), which enable a faster, easier, and greater social and cultural engagement with the home country, this book argues that middle-class immigrants, such as Korean immigrants in the Washington-Baltimore region, sustain more regular connections with the homeland through cultural, rather than economic or political, transnational activities. Though not as conspicuous and contentious as other forms of transnational participation, cultural transnational activities may prove to be more lasting and also serve as a backbone for maintaining longer-lasting connections and identities with the home country.

Download or read book Why Are You Always On The Phone Smart Skills With The Smartphone Generation written by Michelle Mei Ling Yeo and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Are You Always on the Phone? SMART Skills with the Smartphone Generation is a revelation and an actual depiction of what goes on in the everyday lives of youth who are connected and are online most of the time either via their smartphone or their iPad. Many a time, parents of tweens and teenagers from the age of 10 onwards to 18, are curious and are even 'tearing their hair out'; frustrated with their child/children's obsession with texting and chatting online 24/7. The challenge then is how we can seek to understand the complexities and nuances of our youth and their connection in the 21st-century technologically driven globalized society. Unraveling this challenge, this book provides powerful insights into the lives of individuals as they grapple with the rise of being connected at any time at any place via their smartphone. Voices from parents, tweens and teens sharing their online experiences and opinions have been weaved and compiled into the text for an honest and interesting read for all.With stories and anecdotes, Why Are You Always on the Phone? serves to answer the questions 'Why are you always online?', 'What are you doing online?' and a list of queries that most parents, educators and even tweens and teenagers themselves seek to know and are curious about. It is hoped that by answering these, it will prompt deeper, more empathetic, and layered connections between parents, tweens, teenagers and educators for more fulfilling parent-child and teacher-student relationships and thus highlight the importance of practising effective and safe uses of the smartphone and other devices.

Download or read book The smartphone as a personally used ubiquitous system written by Steffen Schumacher and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Communication, , language: English, abstract: Smartphones, i.e. small, lightweight, mobile computers which can exchange data with the internet via cellular phone networks and integrate a telephone, a camera, a GPS receiver, a touchscreen and a keyboard (which is located in general on the touchscreen) provide resources for their users around the clock, but potentially for other people as well through user data. Because of their potentially permanent communication with the internet, they make up a new, ubiquitous quality of incorporation of the user and possibilites of participation.

Download or read book How dangerous is the smartphone for children On the impact of smartphone use on children s health written by Henry Rygiel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2019 in the subject Health - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: Smartphones are now everything in one: telephone, address book, search engine and games console. In the meantime, they have become an integral part of our lives, which can also be found in children's rooms more and more often. But how does smartphone use affect the health of young children? In order to answer this question, Henry Rygiel evaluates various national and international studies in his publication. He determines the risk potential of smartphones and shows what they can do to the development of preschool children. Behavioral and language development disorders are just as likely as addictive behavior. Precisely for this reason, prevention must start as early as possible, preferably in the day-care center and of course in the family itself. Although children cannot avoid digitization, they can learn to deal with it properly. From the content: - Health hazard; - Media usage; - Children; - Prevention; - Mobile phone

Download or read book Smart glasses as the smartphone killer written by Philipp Rothe and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2021 in the subject Engineering - Computer Engineering, grade: 1,7, Boston University, language: English, abstract: Nowadays, it is hard to imagine a world without smartphones. In 2021, 3.8 billion people worldwide use smartphones, which means about 50% of the world's total population. In the developed countries, as many as 75% of adults own a smartphone. Estimates assume that there are more than 14 billion active smartphones worldwide. That is nearly twice the population of the world. To analyse a smartphone more concrete, the paper will focus on the iPhone, which is the flagship product of Apple.