Changing Social Engagement With Mobile Video
The viral nature of how mobile video has changed our social engagement is quite tremendous and the trend according to mobile phones has become an established phenomena. The uses to which we can now put mobile phones vary: from shooting video snippets of remarkable moments to watching mobiles movies, sports, and News, and play mobile games. The importance of mobile technology, evident in mobile connection among folks during the Arab Spring and other major global trends, cannot be overemphasized.
A cursory look at the almanac of milestones in mobile-video history will show that mobile phones are now streaming with varying contents broadcast over several spectrum. Clear cases abound in the Apple’s version of iTunes, MobiTV, BBC’s 24 mobile channels, ESPN as well as Qualcomm’s FLO TV. The world’s first mobile film festival, Pocket Film festival and the Netflix mobile’s app have been very instrumental to the functionality and usage of mobile video across the globe.
Most notable global uproar such as protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya are largely successful because of the influence of mobile technology across the tensed terrain. Importantly, the invention by protesters, during the Arab Spring, of bypassing the state-owned television to creation of a live news feed for their purpose was crucial to global trend of change.
There is no doubt that mobile phone has come to change the culture and pattern of our social engagement and thus the growth of mobile versatility has skyrocketed.





