Mobile Chat Research Articles

The Changing Physical and Social Environment of Newsgathering: A Case Study of Foreign Correspondents Using Chat Apps During Unrest

Mobile chat apps have shaped multiple forms of communication in everyday life, including education, family, business, and health communication. In journalism, chat apps have taken on a heightened significance in reporting political unrest, particularly in terms of audience/reporter distinctions, sourcing of information, and community formation. Mobile phones are now essential components in reporters’ everyday communication, and particularly during political unrest. In East Asia, the latest trends point toward private networking apps, such as WeChat and WhatsApp, as the most important digital tools for journalists to interact with sources and audiences in news production. These apps provide a set of private (and, increasingly, encrypted) alternatives to open, public-facing social media platforms. This article is the first to examine foreign correspondents’ usage of chat apps for newsgathering during political unrest in China and Hong Kong since the 2014 “Umbrella Movement,” a time when the use of chat apps in newsgathering became widespread. This article identifies and critically examines the salient features of these apps. It then discusses the ways these journalistic interactions on chat apps perpetuate, disrupt, and affect “social” newsgathering. This article argues that chat apps do not represent one interactive space; rather they are hybrid interactions of news production embedded in social practices rather than pre-existing physical/digital spaces. This research is significant as the emergence of chat apps as tools in foreign correspondents’ reporting has implications for journalistic practices in information gathering, storage, security, and interpretation and for the informational cultures of journalism.

A comparison between the effects of mobile and computer chatting on Korean college students’ completion of English sentences, vocabulary richness, and their use of both chatting media

A comparison between the effects of mobile and computer chatting on Korean college students’ completion of English sentences, vocabulary richness, and their use of both chatting media

MOBILE CHATTING BEHAVIOUR OF ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE STUDENTS

Mobile connectivity is the order of the day. Personas irrespective of their socio-economic status possess mobile device either basic or advanced android or windows or IOS. The chat applications have become popular with younger generation. It has started trickling down to children below the age of eighteen. The behaviour has influenced the aged also. The mobile chat applications have no barriers with regard to age group, nativity, social status and economic status. The increasing dominance of these mobile chat applications need to be studied. It has been eating away our young people’s time and mind. The recent election in Tamil Nadu is the best example. Parties have used these chat applications to make their comments, appeals, abuses and pleas. Wherever we go it is obvious that the students sit with mobile apps ignoring the presence of others. It has become the natural quest of everyone who is penchant in doing research to take up a study on this behaviour. Hence, the investigators have taken up this study to find out arts and science college students mobile chatting behaviour like use of chat applications, time of chatting and chatting with the people associated with them. The study has used simple random sampling technique of 300 arts and science college students of Chennai area. The findings of the study reveal that there are four chat applications namely WhatsApp, Messenger, Skype and Hang out occupying first, second, third and fourth places respectively among arts and science college students.

Medical Informatics and the "Three Long, One Short" Problem of Large Urban Hospitals in China.

Medical Informatics and the "Three Long, One Short" Problem of Large Urban Hospitals in China.

A secure group-based mobile chat protocol

In recent years, many mobile services have been exploited based on the smartphone platform. For example, huge mobile applications (APPs) created for the mobile communication services which are not only for voice services, but also for social networking services. Therefore, the Mobile Chat (MC) services plays a very important role in current social networking. With the increasingly growing reliance on the Mobile Chat System (MCS) in one hand, and the growing number of vulnerabilities and attacks on the other hand, there are lots of increasing demands for their security solutions. In spite of the critical role of MCS in the representative internet mobile user’s life, electronic MC services are not secure enough. Thus, both the Secure End-to-End Secure Mobile Chat (SE2E-MC) scheme and Secure Group-based Mobile Chat (SG-MC) scheme are provided the suitable solutions. The SG-MC scheme and its associated requirements are also designed in this paper. The scheme is implemented to provide mutual authentication and prevent the password guessing attack and the undetectable on-line password guessing attack. Finally, the scheme could prevent the password-based authentication, and provide the password-based key agreement (AKA) with easily remembered characteristic.

Nosql Technology In Android Based Mobile Chat Application Using Mongodb

Along with the development of data storage technology which previously using relational concept began to change to the non-relational concept or sometimes referred to as the term NoSQL technology. Data storage in NoSQL is no longer based on the relations between tables but using another methods, one of them is document-oriented. This method was applied specifically in MongoDB. This concept brings new hope because oftheir superiority that can handle very large data with promising performance and is perfect for agile system development. The purpose of this research was to measure the performance NoSQL, especially MongoDB with implemented it in a Android based mobile chat application. This research uses three methods, analysis method including literature study, analysis of similar application, questionnaires, design method using Agile SofwareDevelopment, and evaluation method including eight golden rules, analysis of similar application, questionnaires, and interview. The results of this research is a mobile chat application that uses MongoDB as the data storage technology. Through this research can be drawn the conclusion that NoSQL technology implementation, MongoDB, give special advantages like lighter data storage and faster data access.

A Yoruba—English Language Translator for Doctor—Patient Mobile Chat Application

The mobile communication technology is fast gaining enormous popularity offering a wide range of capabilities for distant communication, which forms the basis of its use in all facets of human activities. This work uses the mobile programming technology provided by JAVA to design and simulate an instant message exchanger and language mapping that allows patients to reach out to physicians and have access to health care services. A working model for a mobile chat application using various components such as mobile client terminal, the Internet and server was developed. The model was simulated using JAVA 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) and the JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE).The tool developed in this work has been tested and usability assessment conducted among medical practitioners and a number of clients. Result shows that the solution will be useful in providing health care services to semi-literates (those who cannot communicate in official language) without a physical contact with the doctors, in a rural setting. Ethical and legal modalities are being worked out for national usage of this solution.

Inhibitors and Enablers of Mobile Data Services Use in South Africa

The uptake of advanced mobile data services in South Africa has been slow, even though it is currently the largest cellular market and has one of the most advanced mobile telecommunication industries in Africa. This apparent contradiction forms the subject of this article. It presents the findings from a survey in South Africa that looked at the adoption of a number of data services, including content services, web browsing, email, MMS, mobile games, mobile banking and mobile chats. It was found that, apart from SMS, users were indeed generally slow to adopt any of the 3G data services. The article lists and discusses the major obstacles and inhibitors to this adoption as mentioned by the respondents. It also reports on what mobile users perceived could be done to promote the adoption of mobile services. This research should, therefore, provide useful insights to researchers interested in mobile technology adoption in Africa as well as the providers of mobile data services.

Explaining intention to use mobile chat services: moderating effects of gender

PurposeIn this article the authors aim to investigate the moderating effects of gender in explaining intention to use mobile chat services.Design/methodology/approachAn extended adoption model based on the technology acceptance model and theory of reasoned action is applied for pin‐pointing the antecedents of intention to use mobile chat services and for revealing cross‐gender differences. The hypotheses are tested on data from a survey of 684 users of mobile chat services.FindingsThe study results suggest that social norms and intrinsic motives such as enjoyment are important determinants of intention to use among female users, whereas extrinsic motives such as usefulness and – somewhat surprisingly – expressiveness are key drivers among men.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings put renewed focus on non‐utilitarian motives and illuminate the role of gender in technology adoption.Practical implicationsThe cross‐gender differences observed give several guidelines for mobile service developers and marketers in how to accommodate female versus male users.Originality/valueThe paper provides important and new insights both into mobile services adoption and into gender as an important segmentation variable in marketing.

Issues of supporting communities in mobile contexts

Group communication is a very wide area. Groups have been communicating orally face-to-face and over the phone, or textually by leaving messages to bulletin board. Computers have created new opportunities for group communication: chats, e-mail lists and newsgroups among others. Mobile phones present even new methods and challenges. In this position paper issues concerning a design of a mobile chat will be discussed.