Ricerc@Sapienza

In the context of an international research project on older people’s relations with and through mobile telephony, Italian participants spontaneously provided narrations on mobile phones that appeared to be structured around strong stereotypes. Respondents show a twofold representation of mobile phones either as a simple communication tool or as a ‘hi-tech’ device, which generates multifaceted stereotypes.

We develop and study adaptive rate scheduling mechanisms over cellular wireless networks, as used for the unicast provision of video streams to client mobiles at variable quality of experience (QoE) levels. Under service type I, mobile users receive video streams at a QoE level that is not lower than a specified value. In addition, mobile users that experience sufficiently high communications channel quality levels, may be provided video streams at higher video quality levels.

This article analyzes the idioms of practice and media ideologies of adolescents
and older adults regarding mobile digital media usage, and how they are negotiated
within and between age cohorts. We formed aged-based focus groups in Rome and
Barcelona (four groups of 16- to 19-year-olds and four of 65- to 85-year-olds). The
comparison provides new insights on older individuals’ communication practices, often
overshadowed by the focus on youth. Participants of both age groups explained they do