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Informationen zum Autor Hidenori Tomita is Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University, Japan. The Post Mobile Society: from the Smart/Mobile to Second Offline forms the results of an in-depth and multilateral study on the influence of mobile media on society as well as trends of technologies and applications."Second Offline" refers to the real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual information, an environment where people always refer to online or virtual information. Presently, the main theme of sociological studies on mobile phones have been why mobile communication devices have spread so rapidly throughout the world despite the historical and cultural diversities, and in what fields and how they are used. However, with the appearance of iPhone, traditional feature phones have begun to be replaced with smartphones and various functions have been added to them. Furthermore, because they have also adopted location-based services and AR (Augmented Reality) technologies, the influence that smartphones and other new mobile media is having on society has been rapidly increasing. For example, Google announced Google Glass in the USA and Tonchidot Corporation has recently announced Telepahy One in Japan.These devices enable us to create the above-mentioned environment easily. This edited collection provides a timely and current summation of debates surrounding the public domain and mobile media, the personal domain and mobile media, including a discussion of the history of mobile media and predictions for it's future. Zusammenfassung With the spread of mobile augmented reality, it has become very difficult to consider digital space and physical space independently. In this book, the authors identify and discuss the state 'Second Offline' which refers to a real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual information and one in which individuals are constantly referring to the online world. ‘Second Offline’ is observed across a wide range of social contexts and the relationship between superimposed digital online information and physical offline information is increasingly important. This book analyses the cooperative relationship between online and offline and also examines situations where there may be a conflict between these realities. Furthermore, the authors discuss the possibility that in addition to influencing the physical space, the digital world actually causes some of the physical world to be lost. Offering a discussion of the implications of a post-mobile society in which second offline is widespread, this edited collection will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in sociology, mobile media and cultural studies more generally. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. What is second offline? Part I: From Kafka’s letter to mobile media 2. Pre-history of mobile practices: Genealogy of telepresence 3. Development of mobile handsets and services on the supplier’s side Part II: Social life and mobile media 4. Mediated workplaces and work styles as second offline 5. Second offline perspective on the medical field 6. Mobile media and school education 7. Poly-reality: Sociological imagination evoked by smartphones Part III: Cultural life and mobile media 8. Recreation and mobile content: ‘The future of mobile content: A new "me" in rich context’ 9. Romantic relationships and media usage among university students 10. The ‘Triple Junction Model’ of mobile media: Two dogmas of the ‘myth of communication’ Part IV: Social media and mobile society 11. Good grief: The role of social mobile media in the 3.11 earthquake disaster in Japan 12. Mobile media and social movements: Structural change and spatial transformation of protest demonstr...
