Mystic Messenger and the power of texting games
Mystic Messenger and the power of texting games
- October 28, 2016
- Mimi Ito, anthropology, featured in Kill Screen, Oct. 28, 2016
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine, and in her paper “Personal Portable Pedestrian: Lessons from Japanese Mobile Phone Use,” she examines the culture around texting habits in Japanese society. She uses the term “tele-nesting” when describing how young people use texting and mobile phones as a “glue for cementing a space of shared intimacy.”
For the full story, please visit https://killscreen.com/articles/mystic-messenger-power-texting-games/.
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