Impacts of Mobile Use and Experience on Contemporary Society: 9781522578857: Social Sciences & Humanities Books

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ISBN13: 9781522578857

ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522592921

EISBN13: 9781522578864

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7885-7

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As a popular and powerful medium, mobile use has increased significantly across the world. The effects of these communication devices have not only transformed how we communicate but also how we gather and distribute information in a variety of industries including healthcare, business, and education.

Impacts of Mobile Use and Experience on Contemporary Society provides cross-disciplinary research that ties together use and experience examining the transformative influence of mobile technology and how it is reshaping who we are and what we do. Featuring research that investigates the impacts on both actors and activities with topic coverage that includes academic application, economic value, and mobile learning, scholars from different disciplines from all over the world identify the crucial implications behind mobile technology. Included amongst the targeted audience are educators, policymakers, healthcare professionals, managers, academicians, researchers, and practitioners.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Academic Application
Economic Value
E-Learning
Gratification Theory
Mobile Learning
Mobile Technologies
Psychological Impacts
Smart Devices
Socio-Economic Impact
Transnational Communication

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Xiaoge Xu, Ph.D., is the editor-in-chief of Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication Book Series of IGI Global. He is the founder of Mobile Studies International, Creative Industries International, and Research Labs International. He has been passionately advocating, promoting, and conducting comparative and interdisciplinary studies of the mobile, creative and experience industries in the context of experience economy. He is currently teaching at the School of International Communications, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Before rejoining the China campus of University of Nottingham in July 2018, he taught at Xiamen University Malaysia, Botswana International University of Science and Technology, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and China School of Journalism in Beijing. He is a grandpa of two lovely grandchildren, Peggy Xu and Jonny Xu. Largely based in Singapore, he enjoys travelling and training around the world.

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