Mobile news networks

Filed in archive Market , Science on May 7, 2006

"Be a Freeporter": social behavior changes because of new technologies. In the next years mobile solutions will be the key driver for this process. Look at all the mobile phones with camera build in. Look at all these weblogs. Take both together and you have the "Freeporter". This is an asumption of the Center for Computing Technologies (TZI), Universität Bremen, Germany.

A study has researched the conditions of such social networks.
There are four reasons why:

Topicality: it could make news accessible within a minimal delay in time,

Scale: such a network could contain reports of global interest as well as reports relevant only within certain locations (e.g. a city) and even personal messages (e.g. holiday reports),

objectivity: it could provide several independent points of view of the same event and

Personalisation: each consumer of these reports could receive a personal newscast, selected from a wide variety of opinions and topics to suit his/her personal interests and taste.

Download the full study here(pdf)

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