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Mobile Phones and Environmentalism.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mobile Phones and Environmentalism./
Author:	Typhina, Elizabeth.
Description:	1 online resource (247 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369857252

Mobile Phones and Environmentalism.
Typhina, Elizabeth.

Mobile Phones and Environmentalism. - 1 online resource (247 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores uses of mobile phones for environmental activity and how mobile phone use influences perceptions of environmental problems. These findings are applied in the creation of a design methodology and recommendations for improving mobile phone interventions for understanding and acting on environmental problems. Due to the complexity and multidimensionality of these research goals, I integrated insights from multiple theoretical frameworks and disciplines.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369857252Subjects--Topical Terms:

556422
Communication.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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520 $a This dissertation explores uses of mobile phones for environmental activity and how mobile phone use influences perceptions of environmental problems. These findings are applied in the creation of a design methodology and recommendations for improving mobile phone interventions for understanding and acting on environmental problems. Due to the complexity and multidimensionality of these research goals, I integrated insights from multiple theoretical frameworks and disciplines.
520 $a The first set of frameworks approached the research questions from a historical perspective, reviewing three decades of mobile phone use and environmental activity. The second set of frameworks focused on the structural design and appropriation of mobile applications for environmental understanding and action. The third set of frameworks exposed the impact that design methodologies have on user perceptions, and the concluding framework coalesced findings, showing a complex array of activities and implications around mobile phone use.
520 $a The outcomes of this dissertation reveal that mobile phones have transformed how users recognize and address environmental problems. Outcomes also reveal a shift in cultural perceptions of who can solve environmental problems. The use of participatory design methodologies, such as an actor diagramming and tracing method, is recommended as a way to integrate both human and nonhuman stakeholders in finding problems and solutions. Other recommendations from this dissertation include the use of environmental mobile phone initiatives for: 1) collective and collaborative action, 2) culture jamming, and 3) connecting and awakening users to the nonhuman.
520 $a These recommendations aim to shift mobile developers and users from human-centric understandings, where humans dominate ecosystems, to eco-centric understandings, where humans are intricately connected to and reliant on ecosystems. Ultimately, this dissertation shows how the execution of technological features in mobile phones and their appropriation by users either reproduces the status quo or leads to changes in society, technology, and the environment.
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