Premium rate culture: the new business of mobile interactivity

被引：21

作者：

Goggin, Gerard

Spurgeon, Christina

机构：

[1] Univ Sydney, Dept Media Commun, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

[2] Queensland Univ Technol, Creat Ind Fac, Kelvin Grove, Qld 4059, Australia

来源：

NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY | 2007年 / 9卷 / 05期

关键词：

interactivity; mobile internet; mobile messaging; mobile phones; premium mobile services; premium rate telecommunications; SMS;

D O I：

10.1177/1461444807080340

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

This article considers a neglected but crucial aspect of the new business of mobile interactivity: the premium rate data services industry. It provides an international anatomy of this industry model and the ways in which it has been used to capitalize upon the surprising success of short message service ( SMS) to provide a basis for the development of consumer markets for mobile data services. It situates this analysis within a wider consideration of the role of premium rate culture in the social shaping of interactivity in convergent media. Specifically, it looks at how premium rate services are being constructed in relation to telecommunications, television and the internet. The article concludes that although premium rate culture has rejuvenated innovation in broadcast television, potentially it may constrain the interactive potential of the mobile internet.

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页码：753 / 770

页数：18