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.
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