Idea for Final Individual Podcast Project

A series of six children shortstories podcast program.  These stories will include especial sounds effects to enhance the podcast. The stories will be recorder in a story-telling model. List of stories:

The Auracan Forest (Landes: creatures with magic powers who guard the well being of the humans)

Raca (A cave boy that travel to the future through a magic cave and arrives to New York on a Halloween day)

Miracle in the Forrest (Animal are mistreated by humans and when humans are in danger, the animals have choice to help them or let them die)

The Boy and the Lion (A baby lion is saved by a little boy and years later the lion returns the favor)

Enchanted (A princess is turn in to a snake by a witch, a prince must take her to a crosswalk outside of the Forrest to break the spell, many filed)

Tano in Mexico City (An American mouse detective is assigned to find a lost mouse in Mexico City, he meets a Mexican detective, should Tano trust him or work on his own)

These stories are subject to change if necessary.

Final Project Idea: Mobile Technology in Mexico

Thesis:

Analogue cell phones today allow Mexican people to communicate from almost anywhere with others by making a simple cell phone call. However as this technology continues to innovate its interface, analogue cell phones now allow its users to go beyond just a simple call, it allows them to exchange pictures, videos, music, text messages and even e-mail. How is this new technology on analogue cell phones impacting the Mexican cell phone market?

Statement of intent:

I intend to conduct a research in the Mexican cell phone market especially focused in the analogue cell phone. According to the Mexican Federal Commission of Communication (Comision Federal de Telecomunicaciones), the cell phone was introduced in Mexico in 1990. Cell phone users grew about 397% in 13 years in comparison of the telephone users that grew only 17% in 32 years. Since the introduction of the cell phone in Mexico, there have been many changes done to the interface and services of the cell phone, allowing Mexicans to have access to the analogue cell phone. As a result the number of customers increased from 69 thousand in 1990 to 27,427 million in 2003. The latest interface innovations of the analogue cell phone continues to provide more and more features that allow customers to exchange videos, music, pictures, text messages and e-mail, this changes not only the telephone market, but the way that Mexicans communicate and connect with each other.

This research will discuss and evaluate the changes of the cell phone in the Mexican market as well as the current usage of the analogue cell phone among Mexicans. This paper will look into the history of the market growth of the telephone in comparison to the rapid growth of the cell phone in Mexico. It will also explore the current use of analogue cell phone and projecting ahead into the future of the analogue cell phone all the way to the G-phone, and the social impacts of this technology in the Mexican society.

Citation:

Comision Federal de Comunicaciones, (2008)Telefonia Fija from 1971-2003 en Mexico. Retrieved January 23, 2008, from http://www.cft.gob.mx/wb/Cofetel_2008/Cofe_telefonia_local_fija

Comision Federal de Comunicaciones, (2008)Telefonia Movil from 1990-2008 in Mexico. Retrieved January 22, 2008, from http://www.cft.gob.mx/wb/Cofetel_2008/Cofe_telefonia_movil