Digital Dialogues Archive - June 2012

Mobile Media Matters: Investigating Wireless/Mobile with Dialed-In Toolkit

This MAG-Net Digital Dialogue is Part Two of our "Dialed In" Cell Phone Literacy Toolkit series. This second webinar will feature Media Literacy Project (MLP) and Institute for Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA) who workshop some pieces of their contributions to the The Dialed-In toolkit, helping us demystify the cellphone as a commodity and envision a more connected relationship to mobile technology by enriching our potential use of cell phones for telling our own stories.  

Mobile Media Matters: Investigating Wireless/Mobile with Dialed-In: A Cell Phone Literacy Toolkit

There are 234 million cell phone subscribers in the United States, 45.5 million of whom own smartphones. By the end of 2011, the consumer electronics industry was expected to bring in more than $190 billion.   A remarkable share of that revenue is coming from people of color, who are adopting smartphones at faster rates than white consumers and are doing far more with them.