Melding with the Self, Melding with Relational Partners, and Turning into a Quasi-social Robot: A Japanese Case Study of People’s Experiences of Emotion and Mobile Devices

ast research suggests that the mobile device can be experienced as a relational artefact, and also, as a technology for cyborgization, questioning the boundary between the mobile device and humans. This paper examines the question in the context of Japanese young people. More specifically, the prese...

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Main Author: Satomi Sugiyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Franklin University Switzerland 2013-01-01
Series:Intervalla : Platform for Intellectual Exchange
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Online Access:http://www.fc.edu/intervalla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=5