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Tangible mobile app store design for China's new generation migrant worker

Yang, Shuo

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Title
Tangible mobile app store design for China's new generation migrant worker
Author(s)
Yang, Shuo
Issue Date
2011-08-25T22:20:38Z
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Reeder, Kevin
Department of Study
Art & Design
Discipline
Art and Design
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.F.A.
Degree Level
Thesis
Date of Ingest
2011-08-25T22:20:38Z
Keyword(s)
  • China migrant workers
  • Mobile phone
  • Mobile apps
Abstract
China has the largest numbers of Internet users and mobile phone subscribers in the world, as well as the most extensive peacetime internal migration on the planet. Mobile phone uses play a very important role in migrant responses to alienation and discrimination. There are 150 million to 200 million migrant workers in China, 60% of them are the second-generation migrant workers. They support the nation’s manufacturing and industry. The majority of these individuals is poor and is from rural areas of the country. These young people are currently ignored by mainstream mobile device manufacturers, even though this constituency will be a growing consumptive segment in the future. Thus, my research will target the new-generation migrant workers in China, and concentrates on their mobile lives to best develop a tangible mobile devices application store that will improve their mobile experiences.
Graduation Semester
2011-08
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Copyright 2011 Shuo Yang

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