Comments on: Citizen Journalism - Put your mobile to good use http://shift6.net/2008/04/09/citizen-journalism-put-your-mobile-to-good-use/ Youth, mobility and media Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:34:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Inma Martinez http://shift6.net/2008/04/09/citizen-journalism-put-your-mobile-to-good-use/#comment-225 Inma Martinez Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:40:04 +0000 http://shift6.net/2008/04/09/citizen-journalism-put-your-mobile-to-good-use/#comment-225 In a way, I reckon it is all about adopted behaviour. When I had a mobile phone in 1995 -yes, I huuuge one, I never looked at its screen, but plugged it to my ear and that was it. Then, in 1999, I became a NOKIA Developer and got to test around their first Wap phone, the Matrix one that slid open in a single swish... very cool. I tested the phone for about 3 months solidly and then went back to the old one. Ha! The hundreds of times I caught myself looking at its front whenever a sound came out of it, instead of treating it like a call/text tool.... I had changed my behaviour... a way to operate that at first felt weird, but later on became subconscious... How many subconscious expectations do we adopt? Googling things when we want to know, youtubing stuff when we want to watch... It's like a de facto. We assume it's gotta be there... In the very near future... will we all grab our phones in a flash and film stuff that happens around us as if we'd done it all our lives? In a way, I reckon it is all about adopted behaviour. When I had a mobile phone in 1995 -yes, I huuuge one, I never looked at its screen, but plugged it to my ear and that was it. Then, in 1999, I became a NOKIA Developer and got to test around their first Wap phone, the Matrix one that slid open in a single swish… very cool. I tested the phone for about 3 months solidly and then went back to the old one. Ha! The hundreds of times I caught myself looking at its front whenever a sound came out of it, instead of treating it like a call/text tool…. I had changed my behaviour… a way to operate that at first felt weird, but later on became subconscious…

How many subconscious expectations do we adopt? Googling things when we want to know, youtubing stuff when we want to watch… It’s like a de facto. We assume it’s gotta be there…

In the very near future… will we all grab our phones in a flash and film stuff that happens around us as if we’d done it all our lives?

]]> By: Alison Black http://shift6.net/2008/04/09/citizen-journalism-put-your-mobile-to-good-use/#comment-224 Alison Black Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:12:00 +0000 http://shift6.net/2008/04/09/citizen-journalism-put-your-mobile-to-good-use/#comment-224 Jeff Jarvis wrote an interesting piece on mobile phone journalism last February: http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/02/11/every-journalist-a-mojo/. Like you, I wonder how the desire to document would work alongside the instincts to flee a dangerous situation or to give help to others in danger (a dilemma professional journalists often deal with); or, indeed, even in a situation without danger, to simply experience the moment without feeling any pressure to document it. Jeff Jarvis wrote an interesting piece on mobile phone journalism last February: http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/02/11/every-journalist-a-mojo/.
Like you, I wonder how the desire to document would work alongside the instincts to flee a dangerous situation or to give help to others in danger (a dilemma professional journalists often deal with); or, indeed, even in a situation without danger, to simply experience the moment without feeling any pressure to document it.

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