The Next Paradigm Shift in the Mobile Ecosystem: Mobile Social Computing and the Increasing Relevance of Users

Communications & Strategies, No. 75, p.75, 2009

21 Pages Posted: 25 Feb 2010 Last revised: 16 Nov 2010

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Claudio Feijoo

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Corina Pascu

European Union - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)

Gianluca Misuraca

European Union - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)

Wainer Lusoli

European Commission JRC - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies

Date Written: 2009

Abstract

Social computing has become the paradigm for the increasingly relevant role of users in the Internet world. In this paper, it is argued that mobile social computing will eventually cause an even bigger impact in the mobile ecosystem. We are already at the beginning of the "transference" of a significant part of Internet social computing usage to the mobile domain, where users are no longer passive consumers of content and applications, but co-creators and even innovators of them. However, mobile social computing will go one step further in the contribution to the development of the mobile ecosystem, since it will put the many situations of users' daily activities at the centre stage. To prove this case, this paper gathers available data and evidence on the patterns of mobile social computing usage and discusses user innovation and user empowerment in the framework of the current mobile ecosystem.

Keywords: Mobile Social Computing, User Innovation, Mobile Ecosystem

JEL Classification: O31, O32, O33

Suggested Citation

Feijoo, Claudio and Pascu, Corina and Misuraca, Gianluca and Lusoli, Wainer, The Next Paradigm Shift in the Mobile Ecosystem: Mobile Social Computing and the Increasing Relevance of Users (2009). Communications & Strategies, No. 75, p.75, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1559162

Claudio Feijoo (Contact Author)

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ( email )

Ciudad Universitaria
Madrid, MA Madrid 28040
United States

Corina Pascu

European Union - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) ( email )

World Trade Centre
Isla de la Cartuja
Seville, E-41092
United States

Gianluca Misuraca

European Union - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) ( email )

World Trade Centre
Isla de la Cartuja
Seville, E-41092
United States

Wainer Lusoli

European Commission JRC - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies ( email )

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C/ Inca Garcilaso 3
Sevilla, 41092
Spain

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