mobile republic: visual approaches to discourse in south african mobile social networks
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Visual approaches to discourse in South African mobile social networks.
MOBILE REPUBLIC
[C]onsider a relatively new platform for media production and consumption: the mobile phone … (Manovich, 2008:34-5).
Mobile-centric user-generated content in South Africa.
FONE
Feature phones, Mxit IM, cost-saving, privacy.
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2 million
5 million
14million
46 million
MEDIATED PUBLICSSocial networks are ‘mediated publics’ and play an increasingly important agenda-setting role.
DIGITAL VISIBILITYLinkingIndexingArchivingRankingRecommendationBookmarking
DIGITALLY INVISIBLEMobile-centric internet users and online political activism in SA election 2009.
Read-write-erase mode, no public record.
LMAO CDES
DIGITALLY INVISIBLERead-write-erase mode, no public record.
PUBLIC SPHERE
NETWORKINGExtending social networksFacebook vs. MXit – second class carriage?
ASLR LOV
ASLR – age, sex,location, race. Gate-keeping Social convergence.
SOCIAL FABRIC
SOCIAL DISTANCETourist images of marginal regions dominate social aggregators such as Flickr.Impersonal and distant shots of local residents predominate.
MOBILE RECORD
Mashups of geo-tagged imagesGuguletu, South Africa
visualCulturesprocessing.org
Landscape
Social distance
Impersonal
Social distance
Social
Social distance
Personal
Social distance
Social distance
Intimate
CONCLUSIONWeb2.0’s panopticism is an illusion.Low-status mobile-centric participation is erased, distanced, and subject to gate-keeping.Tactical appropriations anyone?