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Mapping the mobile DNA of news : understanding incidental and serendipitous mobile news consumption Universiteit Gent
Scholarly work argues that mobile technology facilitates serendipitous news consumption. This article examines how users understand serendipity in mobile news consumption and whether this leads to news diversity. Technology-mediated news encounters are argued to reduce news diversity, yet these theoretical filter bubbles cannot be found empirically. This paper investigates whether this might be explained by incidental news use. A mixed methods ...
Measuring mobile phone use: Gender, age, and real usage level in relation to the accuracy and validity of self-reported mobile phone use KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
© 2013, © The Author(s) 2013. This article reports the results of a mobile phone use validation survey in which we compared self-reported mobile phone use to network provider data, and examined the observed discrepancies between both data sources in a convenience sample of 466 Flemish mobile phone users (18–65 years). The results showed significant discrepancies between self-reported and behavioral mobile phone use, particularly for the number ...
Mobile Phone Penetration, Mobile Banking and Inclusive Development in Africa Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The study assesses the role of mobile phones and mobile banking in decreasing inequality in 52 African countries. The empirical procedure involves first, examining the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration and then investigating the contribution of mobile banking services in this relationship. The findings suggest an equalizing income-redistributive effect of ‘mobile phone penetration’ and ‘mobile banking’, with a higher ...
Benchmarking leading-edge mobile devices for data-intensive distributed mobile cloud applications KU Leuven
Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) addresses the resource limitations of the mobile devices, but with a hidden cost depending on the requirements of the mobile applications. In this work, we investigate the proclaimed benefits of MCC for smart phones when thin clients are used to access remote cloud services, especially for applications that capitalize on the data generated from the mobile device. The added value of MCC can be hampered if the power of ...
‘Mobile phone communication in the mobile margins of Africa : The `communication revolution' evaluated from below’ Universiteit Gent
The mobile phone has become part of the changing history of communication cultures in Africa. Instead of viewing the introduction of new communication technologies as ‘having major effects’, as is often the case in ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) circles, we view the relation between technologies and society as interactive. New technologies, such as the mobile phone, may indeed lead to social change, yet at the ...
Access to premium content on mobile television platforms: the case of mobile sports KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
As broadcasting sports content has proved to be a popular strategy for driving the growth of the digital premium content marketplace in the past, mobile service operators aim to enter the sports rights market. However, as the markets for live sports broadcasting are still dominated by established broadcasters, mobile network operators are facing significant barriers to access premium content creating bottlenecks in the construction of business ...
Knowledge creation through mobile social networks and its impact on intentions to use innovative mobile services Universiteit Antwerpen
Taking a social network perspective, the authors investigate consumers' intentions to use innovative mobile services. With a sociometric survey, they empirically assess how consumers integrate and connect through mobile social networks, as well as how their network position influences knowledge creation and intentions to use four innovative mobile services: multimedia messaging, gaming, information, and transactions. Both personal (i.e., opinion ...
Mobile measurements of particulate matter in a car cabin: local variations, contrasting data from mobile versus stationary measurements and the effect of an opened versus a closed window Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Air pollution of particulate matter (PM) from traffic emissions has a significant impact on human health. Risk assessments for different traffic participants are often performed on the basis of data from local air quality monitoring stations. Numerous studies demonstrated the limitation of this approach. To assess the risk of PM exposure to a car driver more realistically, we measure the exposure to PM in a car cabin with a mobile aerosol ...
Adaptive Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (AMAN): a QoS framework for mobile ad-hoc networks Universiteit Hasselt
Quality of Service (QoS) support for Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) is a challenging task due to the dynamic topology and limited resources in MANETs, and the QoS model should be the first matter to consider as a system goal. The INSIGNIA framework, ASAP and DiffServ model can provide system-level QoS support for MANETs, but each have pros and cons in service precision and scalability. In this paper, we propose a hybrid QoS model for MANETs, ...