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Foreseeing the Future Lifestyle with Digital Music: A Comparative Study Between Mobile Phone Ring Tones and Hard-Disk Music Players Like iPod

Foreseeing the Future Lifestyle with Digital Music: A Comparative Study Between Mobile Phone Ring Tones and Hard-Disk Music Players Like iPod

Masataka Yoshikawa
Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781599042343|ISBN10: 1599042347|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781599042350|EISBN13: 9781599042367
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-234-3.ch004
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Yoshikawa, Masataka. "Foreseeing the Future Lifestyle with Digital Music: A Comparative Study Between Mobile Phone Ring Tones and Hard-Disk Music Players Like iPod." Information Communication Technologies and Emerging Business Strategies, edited by Shenja van der Graaf and Yuichi Washida, IGI Global, 2007, pp. 59-75. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-234-3.ch004

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Yoshikawa, M. (2007). Foreseeing the Future Lifestyle with Digital Music: A Comparative Study Between Mobile Phone Ring Tones and Hard-Disk Music Players Like iPod. In S. van der Graaf & Y. Washida (Eds.), Information Communication Technologies and Emerging Business Strategies (pp. 59-75). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-234-3.ch004

Chicago

Yoshikawa, Masataka. "Foreseeing the Future Lifestyle with Digital Music: A Comparative Study Between Mobile Phone Ring Tones and Hard-Disk Music Players Like iPod." In Information Communication Technologies and Emerging Business Strategies, edited by Shenja van der Graaf and Yuichi Washida, 59-75. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2007. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-234-3.ch004

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Abstract

This chapter aims to explore the future trajectory of enjoying digital music entertainment among consumers comparing the characteristics of the usage patterns of digital music appliances in the U.S. and those in Japan. As the first step of this research, the author conducted two empirical surveys in the U.S. and Japan, and found some basic differences in the usage patterns of a variety of digital music appliances. Next, a series of ethnographical research based on focus-group interviews with Japanese young women was done and some interesting reasons of the differences were discovered. In Japan, sharing the experiences of listening to the latest hit songs with friends by playing them with mobile phones that have the high quality, ring tone functions can be a new way of enjoying music contents, while hard-disk music players like iPod have become a de facto standard of the digital music appliances in the world.

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