Rethinking media displacement: the tensions between mobile media and face-to-face interaction

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2015.4.21005

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Phubbing, Media displacement, Mobile media

Abstract

The neologism of phubbing, a coalesce of phone mediated activities and snubbing effects, caters to the public’s imperative to accentuate the ubiquitous perception of being annoyed, disregard, and offended in light of phone’s presence in co-present situation. Its symptomatic record accompanies important achievements of diffusing mobile media in developing countries, in which young people are one of the most active social groups in this scenario. By incorporating and relating to the theories of media displacement, we focus on the analysis of a Brazilian and Chinese young people survey, pinpointing how they understand and cope with the tensions between mobile media and face-to-face interaction. The results might provide new tissues to the discussions on media displacement.

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Alan César Belo Angeluci, Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul (USCS)

Professor permanente no Programa de Pós-Graduação (Mestrado) em Comunicação em Comunicação Social na Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul (USCS). Desenvolveu estudos de pós-doutorado no Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin (EUA). Doutor em Ciências pela Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo. Realizou Doutorado Sanduíche na University of Brighton, Inglaterra. Mestre pela Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação da Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - UNESP. Bacharel em Jornalismo pela mesma Instituição. 

Gejun Huang, The University of Texas at Austin

Professor Assistente na The University of Texas at Austin (EUA). Doutorando e Mestre em Media Studies pelo Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin (EUA).

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2015-09-10

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Angeluci, A. C. B., & Huang, G. (2015). Rethinking media displacement: the tensions between mobile media and face-to-face interaction. Revista FAMECOS, 22(4), 173–190. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2015.4.21005

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Vol. 22 No. 4 (2015)

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