ABSTRACT
Many of the emerging studies on the use of mobile media in education have focused on using cell phones and other mobile devices as course content delivery systems. The challenges with expecting mobile devices to conform to this vision of educational technology are obvious: small screens restrict the amount of visual information that may be viewed, and limited input systems complicate two-way communication between the receivers of content and the makers. Some of the more recent research views mobile communication as an alternative to e-mail communication for class-related matters, or, as in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre of 2007, as a campus-wide communication system (Swartz & Hopkins, 2007).
