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The Smartphone

Year: 2016

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: YAFR (Yet another futile rant) presents the smartphone: an unstoppable piece of technology generated from a perfect storm of commercial, technological, social and psychological factors. We begin by misquoting Steve Jobs and by being unfairly rude about the HCI community. We then consider the smartphone's ability to kill off competing technology and to undermine collectivism. We argue that its role as a Lacanian stain, an exploitative tool, and as a means of concentrating power into the hands of the few, make it a technology that will rival the personal automobile in its effect on modern society.

Source: CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA)

DOI: 10.1145/2851581.2892581

Authors: Matthew P. Aylett, Shaun Lawson

Institutions: CereProc (United Kingdom), Northumbria University

Language: English

Topic: Cultural Studies and Postmodernism

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Royal Society

OpenAlex ID: W2347008477