Paper Info
Title
Stories of the Smartphone in everyday discourse: conflict, tension & instability
Abstract
As the smartphone proliferates in American society, so too do stories about its value and impact. In this paper we draw on advertisements and news articles to analyze cultural discourse about the smartphone. We highlight two common tropes: one calling for increased technological integration, the other urging individuals to dis-integrate the smartphone from daily life. We examine the idealized subject positions of these two stories and show how both simplistic tropes call on the same overarching values to compel individuals to take opposing actions. We then reflect on the conflicts individuals experience in trying to align and account for their actions in relation to multiple contradictory narratives. Finally, we call for CHI researchers to tell and provoke more complicated stories of technologies and their relationships with values in conversations, publications, and future designs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2470654.2466134
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
common trope,chi researcher,complicated story,everyday discourse,american society,conflicts individuals experience,idealized subject position,cultural discourse,future design,daily life,smartphone proliferates
Computer science,Narrative,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
43
1.62
28
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ellie Harmon125016.39
Melissa Mazmanian223618.71