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Läänes on päris kõvasti lokku löödud Jaapani ülieduka mobiilikasutuse üle ning aasta-kaks tagasi olid suured plaanid, kuidas kogu see värk siia kopeerida. Mizuko Ito avaldas eelmise aasta sügisel hea ülevaate sellest, mis on Jaapani mobiilikultuuri eripärad, millest nad tingitud ja miks teatud ajaloolis-kultuurilistel põhjustel samu ärimudeleid üks-ühele Euroopasse kopeerida ei annaks.

For example, one teenage couple in one of our studieswould start by sending a steady stream of email messages to each other after parting at school. These messages will continue through homework, dinner, television shows, and bath, and would culminate in voice contact in the late evening, lasting for an hour ormore. A trail of messages might follow the voice call, ending in a good night exchange and revived again upon waking. This steady stream of text exchange, punctuated by voicecalls and face-to-face meetings, define a kind of “tele-nesting” practice that young people engage in, where the personal medium of the mobile phone becomes the glue forcementing a space of shared intimacy (Ito and Okabe 2005).

Link: Personal Portable Pedestrian:Lessons from Japanese Mobile Phone Use (PDF)