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"Perhaps it is a body part": How the mobile telephone became an organic part of the everyday lives of Finnish children and teenagers
... In line with these arguments, the mobile phone, on the one hand, acts as a mean of intra-family coordination and as a symbolic 'umbilical cord' that provides a permanent channel of communication between parents and teenagers intensifying parental supervision and control (Green, 2002;Ling 2004;Geser, Késia, & Trench, 2006;Chen & Katz, 2009). On the other hand, teenagers' mobile phone communication creates a greater space for interaction with their peers and enhances freedom from parental surveillance playing a critical role in their socialization and emancipative processes (Oksman & Rautianen, 2003;Ling & Yttri, 2006;Ling 2007Ling , 2009. ...
... During their teens, however, the adolescent moves from being largely oriented to their family of origin to being more oriented toward their peer group (Ling & Yttri, 2006, p.220) The mobile phone has contributed to teenagers' transition from the sphere of the parents to the peer group affecting the ways that they become emancipated from their parents (Ling, 2005a(Ling, , 2007(Ling, , 2009Oksman & Rautianen, 2003;. Teenagers' fast adoption of mobile phones has altered their interactions and consequently the power dynamics of parents and peer groups in adolescents' emancipative processes. ...
... The findings underscore that mobile phones provide a "back door of communication" (Kasesniemi & Rautiainen, 2002, p.171) that affect the power dynamics of parental and peer group interactions during the crucial developmental period of adolescence. Mobile phone communication reinforces peers' role in teenagers' socialization and emancipation from their familial sphere (Oksman & Rautianen, 2003;Ling & Yttri, 2006;2005b, 2007), however such reinforcement does not take place at the cost of family cohesion and bonding (Geser, 2005;. ...
Mobile phones have been spreading in the world faster than prior communication technologies (i.e., the television, the Internet). The adoption of the device has become even more popular among teenagers and it is used as a mean of accessibility, micro-coordination, security and emancipation. Mobile phones provide a direct communicative channel between teenagers and peer groups, parents and children; therefore the device enhances social interactions and bonding with peers and family. In order to explore the impact of mobile adoption on teenagers' social relationships, a random sample of students aged 12-18 years old has been drawn from a semi-urban area of Greece. The results from Pearson correlation and multiple regression analyses highlight the significant impact of mobile phones on teenagers' socialization processes. © Common Ground, Stefania Kalogeraki, Marina Papadaki, All Rights Reserved.
... In line with these arguments, the mobile phone, on the one hand, acts as a mean of intra-family coordination and as a symbolic 'umbilical cord' that provides a permanent channel of communication between parents and teenagers intensifying parental supervision and control (Green, 2002;Ling 2004;Geser, Késia, & Trench, 2006;Chen & Katz, 2009). On the other hand, teenagers' mobile phone communication creates a greater space for interaction with their peers and enhances freedom from parental surveillance playing a critical role in their socialization and emancipative processes (Oksman & Rautianen, 2003;Ling & Yttri, 2006;Ling 2007Ling , 2009. ...
... During their teens, however, the adolescent moves from being largely oriented to their family of origin to being more oriented toward their peer group (Ling & Yttri, 2006, p.220) The mobile phone has contributed to teenagers' transition from the sphere of the parents to the peer group affecting the ways that they become emancipated from their parents (Ling, 2005a(Ling, , 2007(Ling, , 2009Oksman & Rautianen, 2003;. Teenagers' fast adoption of mobile phones has altered their interactions and consequently the power dynamics of parents and peer groups in adolescents' emancipative processes. ...
... The findings underscore that mobile phones provide a "back door of communication" (Kasesniemi & Rautiainen, 2002, p.171) that affect the power dynamics of parental and peer group interactions during the crucial developmental period of adolescence. Mobile phone communication reinforces peers' role in teenagers' socialization and emancipation from their familial sphere (Oksman & Rautianen, 2003;Ling & Yttri, 2006;2005b, 2007), however such reinforcement does not take place at the cost of family cohesion and bonding (Geser, 2005;. ...
Mobile phones have been spreading in the world faster than prior communication technologies (i.e., the television, the Internet). The adoption of the device has become even more popular among teenagers and it is used as a mean of accessibility, micro-coordination, security and emancipation. Mobile phones provide a direct communicative channel between teenagers and peer groups, parents and children; therefore the device enhances social interactions and bonding with peers and family. In order to explore the impact of mobile adoption on teenagers’ social relationships, a random sample of students aged 12-18 years old has been drawn from a semi-urban area of Greece. The results from Pearson correlation and multiple regression analyses highlight the significant impact of mobile phones on teenagers’ socialization processes.
... The personal significance of the experiences cannot be detached from people's relationships with their smartphones. Personal mobile devices can be understood as extensions of self [29,37], and, by some accounts, as bodily appendages [30]. ...
Unauthorized physical access to personal devices by people known to the owner of the device is a common concern, and a common occurrence. But how do people experience incidents of unauthorized access? Using an online survey, we collected 102 accounts of unauthorized access. Participants wrote stories about past situations in which either they accessed the smartphone of someone they know, or someone they know accessed theirs. We describe the context leading up to these incidents, the course of events, and the consequences. We then identify two orthogonal themes in how participants conceptualized these incidents. First, participants understood trust as performative vulnerability: trust was necessary to sustain relationships, but building trust required displaying vulnerability to breaches. Second, participants were self-serving in their sensemaking: they blamed the circumstances, or the other person's shortcomings , but rarely themselves. We discuss the implications of our findings for security design and practice. CCS CONCEPTS • Security and privacy → Human and societal aspects of security and privacy; • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI;
... As the case of other ICTs, including rules about television watching and the strategies children use to evade those rules, children also resist such parent control and surveillance. For example, when distance from their parents is important, teens' deploy strategies through which they limit parents' access (Oksman and Rautianen 2003). Guises such as "my battery was dead" or "I didn't hear it ring" are ways of erecting barriers and the child establishing a separate identity. ...
Children, youth and the mobile phone In its short life, a surprisingly large literature on the use of mobile communication among children and teens has been written. Indeed, in recent years there has hardly been a conference or a collection of readings that did not include work in this area. The iconic status of the mobile telephone among children and teens has been one of the big surprises associated with this form of communication. While originally conceived as a way to allow business people to interact, mobile telephony has become, perhaps more than anything else, a phenomenon of teens and young people. Reports from Japan (Hashimoto, 2002; Ito, 2005), the Philippines (Ellwood-Clayton, 2005) the broader Asian context (Castells et al. , 2007; Kim, 2004), Norway (Ling, 1999, 2000, 2001a,b; Ling and Yttri, 2002; Skog and Jamtøy, 2002), the UK (Green and Smith, 2002), Finland (Rautiainen and Kasesniemi, 2000; Nurmela, 2003; ...
... Parental worry about a child's safety, particularly in an urban environment, constitutes a significant factor in acquiring cell phones for young children. Actual communication via cell phone between children and parents is actually fairly insignificant in quantity: families value the connection afforded by cell phones to ensure their children's safety (Oksman and Rautiainen 2002). Parents see their cell phones as a means to stay connected with their children in all kinds of situations. ...
Children are mostly neglected as technology end
users, even though they have needs and requirements that
should be taken into account in the design of new products
and services. This paper introduces a process for a designing
situation-aware safety service for children with a unique
combination of novel participatory tools, a brainstorming
workshop, and scenario writing. The design process includes
five phases where the service design team, with multi-science
expertise, uses the participatory design tools to gather
the needs, fears, and hopes from the end users in the very
early phases of the design. We report the lessons learned
from the usage of the design process by the pupils, their
parents and teachers from one primary school in Finland. We
used publicity via the news in local and provincial newspapers,
radio, and TV to receive feedback and acceptance from
the local society. The design process proved to be powerful
and it enabled the gathering and receiving of valuable
feedback from both end users and the local society.
... As the case of other ICTs, including rules about television watching and the strategies children use to evade those rules, children also resist such parent control and surveillance. For example, when distance from their parents is important, teens' deploy strategies through which they limit parents' access (Oksman and Rautianen 2003). Guises such as "my battery was dead" or "I didn't hear it ring" are ways of erecting barriers and the child establishing a separate identity. ...
... Haddon describes the careers of ICTs in these terms (Haddon, 2004). As with the use of the automobile (Flink, 2001;Graham, 1997;Graham & Marvin, 1996;O'Connor, 1982), after using the mobile phone for a while, people do not really understand how they lived without it (Oksman 2003;Ling 2005). This idea resonates with the domestication approach. ...
... Teen use was among the first issues to be investigated (Ling, 2001) in works from Norway (Johnsen, 2003;Ling & Yttri, 2002), Hong Kong (Leung & Wei, 1999), Finland (Kasesniemi & Rautiainen, 2002;Oksman & Rautianen, 2003), the UK ( Green & Smith, 2002;Grinter & Eldridge, 2001) and Japan (Ito, 2001). More recently the Pew Internet and American Life project has been active in examining teens and mobile telephony. ...
The mobile phone has become an important and taken for granted part of children's and adolescents' lives. In many countries the vast majority of children and teens have a mobile phone and use it to coordinate, as a safety link and to weave their social networks and interact with their parents. In addition, the mobile phone has also been associated with less positive behaviors such as sexting, bullying and distracted driving. Author bios Rich Ling is a Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. He has focused on the analysis of the mobile communication and its consequences for society. Troels Fibaek Bertel is a PhD candidate at the IT-University of Copenhagen. His research is focused on the social uses of convergent mobile media among youth.
... Texting has become an important element in teen emancipation from their parents. It is used as a part of teens' transition from the sphere of the parents to the peer group (Ling 2005;Ling 2008b;Ling 2009;Ling and Yttri 2006;Oksman and Rautianen 2003). It allows them to manage independence (Green 2003). ...
... For example, teens report texting to their parents when the ambient background sound in a phone call would tell their parents that they are at a party . Texting in this way supports teen emancipation and the transition from the sphere of the parents to the peer group (Ling, 2005(Ling, , 2009Ling and Yttri, 2006;Oksman and Rautianen, 2003). Texting allows teens to manage independence (Green, 2003). ...
Who texts, and with whom do they text? This article examines the use of texting using metered traffic data from a large dataset (nearly 400 million anonymous text messages). We ask: 1) How much do different age groups use mobile phone based texting (SMS)? 2) How wide is the circle of texting partners for different age groups? 3) To what degree are texting relationships characterized by age and gender homophily? We find that texting is hugely popular among teens compared to other age groups. Further, the number of persons with whom people text is quite small. About half of all text messages go to only five other persons. Finally, we find that there is pronounced homophily in terms of age and gender in texting relationships. These findings support previous claims that texting is an important element of teen culture and is an element in the construction of a bounded solidarity.
The emergence and spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly changed the way commerce processes have been carried out over the last two years. Considering the development of the Internet and the increasing use of digitalization in recent years, electronic commerce has become an important part of the global retail framework. Accordingly, mobile commerce has emerged and developed through various applications as a modern alternative for buying and selling products and/or services using only mobile devices. This paper aims to identify and analyze several key factors that influence students’ perceptions regarding m-commerce acquisitions. It also attempts to illustrate some of the main advantages and disadvantages of m-commerce acquisition and to investigate its influence on students’ perceptions regarding m-commerce purchases. In order to achieve these objectives, the authors gathered data through a quantitative research method by using a questionnaire. The data were analyzed and interpreted through a factorial analysis that uses the presentation of the main components as an extraction method, with the varimax rotation method adopting Kaiser normalization, and processed with SPSS statistical software. The results of this research show that mobile-commerce acquisitions are influenced by five factors (social, political-legislative, technological, financial, and economic). In this respect, social and political-legislative factors influence, at a moderate level, the general frequency of m-commerce acquisition, while the economic factor does not influence the general frequency of m-commerce purchases. The study provides a theoretical model that takes into account the factors that influence m-commerce acquisition, including the influence of the perceived advantages and disadvantages on m-commerce purchase. The paper also displays the way in which these items influence students’ perception on m-commerce acquisitions.
A new approach to understanding the culture of ubiquitous connectivity, arguing that our dependence on networked infrastructure does not equal addiction.
In this book, Susanna Paasonen takes on a dominant narrative repeated in journalistic and academic accounts for more than a decade: that we are addicted to devices, apps, and sites designed to distract us, that drive us to boredom, with detrimental effect on our capacities to focus, relate, remember, and be. Paasonen argues instead that network connectivity is a matter of infrastructure and necessary for the operations of the everyday. Dependencies on it do not equal addiction but speak to the networks within which our agency can take shape.
Paasonen explores three affective formations—dependence, distraction, and boredom—as key to understanding both the landscape of contemporary networked media and the concerns connected to it. Examining social media platforms, mindfulness apps, clickbaits, self-help resources, research reports, journalistic accounts, academic assessments, and student accounts of momentary mundane technological failure, she finds that the overarching narrative of addicted, distracted, and bored users simply does not account for the multiplicity of things at play. Frustration and pleasure, dependence and sense of possibility, distraction and attention, boredom, interest, and excitement enmesh, oscillate, enable, and depend on one another. Paasonen refutes the idea that authenticity can be associated with lives led “off the grid” and rejects the generational othering and scapegoating of smart devices prescribed by conventional wisdom.
Background: With the increasing incidence of mobile phone addiction, mobile phone addiction has been considered to be related to adolescents’ psychological distress. However, the underlying mechanisms of this relation were still unclear. The present study tested the mediating role of rumination and the moderating role of the capacity to be alone in the relation between mobile phone addiction and psychological distress.
Methods: 754 middle school students were recruited to complete measures of mobile phone addiction, rumination, the capacity to be alone, psychological distress and demographic variables.
Results: Mobile phone addiction was significantly and positively associated with psychological distress, and this link could be mediated by rumination. Moreover, the direct effect of mobile phone addiction on psychological distress and the indirect effect of rumination in this link were moderated by the capacity to be alone. Both these two effects were stronger for adolescents with lower capacity to be alone.
Limitations: The present study is limited in terms of its sample selection, cross-sectional design, and self-reported instruments.
Conclusions: The present study advances our understanding of how and when or for whom mobile phone addiction is related to serious psychological distress. Education professionals and parents should pay special attention to the psychological distress of adolescents suffering from mobile phone addiction, particularly for those with lower capacity to be alone.
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This study examines video recordings of one multilingual family whose members interact using a voice translation application that runs on a mobile phone. Its purpose is to explore the ways in which the app does or does not function as a participant. Taking the perspective that participation is negotiated and displayed collaboratively and is only achieved if people orient to each other as participants, I demonstrate how the app is constituted as a participant in the interaction to the extent that it fulfills the animator and principal roles that make up the production format (Goffman 1981), and as an object to the extent that it aids the human participants to fulfill those roles themselves. People display their orientation to the app as a participant through gaze and laughter directed at the mobile phone. They orient to the mobile phone (henceforth, “the app”) as an object when they use it to fulfill the animator role themselves or display responsibility for the original message by gazing at the other participants and by asking for validations of the app's translations. The study contributes to our understanding of technologically mediated interaction by demonstrating how participation roles are distributed between human and non-human entities.
In this chapter the attitude of mothers to the use of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in their children's language learning was investigated. 118 Iranian mothers were selected based on convenient sampling. Their attitude towards CALL was assessed by a 12-item questionnaire. The result of data analysis revealed that generally mothers have roughly positive attitudes towards CALL. Significant differences were reported when mothers with higher education were compared with those mothers who did not have university degrees. However, gender, age, and mother's profession did not have any role in their attitudes towards CALL.
This article describes how smartphones have converged into multifunctional personal devices. Smartphones are equipped with features such as Internet access, cameras (pictures and videos) and MP3 players. While a majority of previous research investigated the use and effects of mobile phones and young people, these studies focused on the Western context. A qualitative research method was used to investigate the research questions. Specifically, focus groups and in-depth interviews were used to collect data. Nevertheless, while a growing number of studies has investigated mobile phone use by teenagers in non-western countries, there is little research on smartphone uses and their implications to teenagers in an Islamic context. This article examines the uses of smartphones by, and their implications to, Bruneian teenagers. The research seeks to map and understand the complex forces that influence and challenge the socio-cultural values and religious beliefs of teenagers in a non-Western, Malay, Islamic society such as Brunei. Copyright © 2017, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited.
The paper addresses prospects of Japanese mobile telepresence robotics where small anthropomorphic devices are designed to act as intermediaries between remote interlocutors. First, an emic perspective of involved scientists and engineers is presented, focusing on example technologies being developed at the Hiroshi Ishiguro Lab in Kyoto (Japan), particularly a „cellphone-type tele-operated android [...] transmitting human presence“ called Elfoid. It represents an attempt to get “behind the veil of the machine” (Sekiguchi/Inami/Tachi 2001, about their RobotPHONE prototype which uses a similar concept) in that it is supposed to act as a solid substitute for a dialog partner through evoking a feeling of presence (sonzaikan in Japanese philosophy, the feeling that someone is sharing the same physical space).
In such undertakings, specific utopian ideals of communication become apparent. Paradoxically, the high-tech developments aim at constituting seemingly immediate interactions, preferably bypassing any potentially troublesome interface. The existence of a phantasm of immediacy (Bolter/Grusin 2000) can be traced back to decisive moments in media history and belongs to the central promises of new technological interfaces. Interestingly, the engineers’ statements reveal a latent technophobia, an ambition to overcome the limitations of physical devices altogether and to move on to more direct means of communicative exchange (including the mythical dimension of telepathy).
Two questions are of particular concern:
1. On what different levels does the notion of immediacy operate?
Not only does it refer to a spiritual ideal of unmediated communion, but it also influences practical decisions in interface design. “Natural” and “Tangible” User Interfaces are the result of a practice of disguise in that they mask their factual hypermediacy to allow for a seamless knotting up of real and mediated environments.
2. What is the relationship between media and the immediate?
The concept of immediacy has so far been met with an almost univocal intellectualist disdain on the part of media theorists. The reason for this rejection is simple enough: If one takes ideas of immediacy serious, the self-image of a whole field of study is called into question. The paper thus attempts to provide a contribution to the question of how media build on notions of immediacy. Any theoretical attempt at describing their operations should take into account the intricate relationship between media and the immediate.
In this chapter, we analyze the relationships between the Internet and its users in terms of situated cognition
theory. We first argue that the Internet is a new kind of cognitive ecology, providing almost constant access to a vast amount of digital information that is increasingly more integrated into our cognitive routines. We then briefly introduce situated cognition theory and its species of embedded, embodied, extended, distributed and collective cognition. Having thus set the stage, we begin by taking an embedded cognition view and analyze how the Internet aids certain cognitive tasks. After that, we conceptualize how the Internet enables new kinds of embodied interaction, extends certain aspects of our embodiment, and examine how wearable technologies that monitor physiological, behavioral and contextual states transform the embodied self. On the basis of the degree of cognitive integration between a user and Internet resource, we then look at how and when the Internet extends our cognitive processes. We end this chapter with a discussion of distributed and collective cognition as facilitated by the Internet.
At have en mobiltelefon er blevet hver mands eje. Der kommunikeres som aldrig før, alle steder og hele tiden. Vi er tilgængelige døgnet rundt. Denne artikel tager udgangspunkt i et interaktionistisk baseret observationsstudie i en ungdomsklub i Danmark og fokuserer på, hvordan unge i alderen 12-16 år på én og samme tid etablerer et direkte og et medieret nærvær, som også er et konstant potentielt fravær. Ligeledes hvordan vores kulturelle forestilling om, hvad der er offentligt og privat, er under forandring og forhandles i forskellige rum. Med afsæt i kulturfænomenologien undersøges, hvordan mobiltelefonen forandrer vores socialitet og dermed eksisterende omgangsformer. Artiklen er baseret på delprojektet “Grænser på på-hed?“, der indgår i et større tværinstitutionelt forskningsprojekt “Hvor går grænsen? Højspændingsæstetik og etisk kvalitet i den aktuelle mediekultur 2005-08“, ledet af Anne Jerslev (Københavns Universitet). ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Ida Wentzel Winther: Availability, Presence and Potential Absence – Young peoples’ Use of Mobile Phones Mobile phones have become public property. We communi-cate as never before, everywhere and always. Day and night we are accessible. This article is based on a field study in a youth club in Denmark, and focuses on how young people between 12 and 16 establish both a direct and a mediated presence simultaneously, which is at the same time a poten-tial absence. It also explores how our cultural notions of public and private change and are negotiated in different social spaces. Using cultural phenomenology, I investigate how mobile phones change sociality and existing manners. The article is based on the research project “Limits to access?“, which is part of a larger project “High-tension Aesthetics. Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Media (2005-08)“, led by Anne Jerslev, Copenhagen University. Key words: Mobile phones, youth club, accessibility, relation between body, objects and media.
Texting while driving has been researched from numerous disciplines including psychology and safety. This current study examines texting while driving through the lens of technology studies. Rather than look at the behavior and its effect on task performance, the technology of the cell phone and its relationship with the owner is explored. While youth is often associated with texting while driving, this study found that age was not significantly different between those who text while driving and those who don’t. Using the domestication approach that was developed in technology studies, our research finds that earlier domestication of a technology (cell phone) affects the behavior of the user when they attempt to use another technology. Drivers who text while driving adopted the cell phone technology younger and often before the age of 16, the traditional age to begin driving. This research highlights the role of technology domestication in task behavior.
Background and aims The primary objective of the present research is to investigate the drivers of technological addiction in college students - heavy users of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The study places cell phone and instant messaging addiction in the broader context of consumption pathologies, investigating the influence of materialism and impulsiveness on these two technologies. Clearly, cell phones serve more than just a utilitarian purpose. Cell phones are used in public and play a vital role in the lives of young adults. The accessibility of new technologies, like cell phones, which have the advantages of portability and an ever increasing array of functions, makes their over-use increasingly likely. Methods College undergraduates (N = 191) from two U.S. universities completed a paper and pencil survey instrument during class. The questionnaire took approximately 15-20 minutes to complete and contained scales that measured materialism, impulsiveness, and mobile phone and instant messaging addiction. Results Factor analysis supported the discriminant validity of Ehrenberg, Juckes, White and Walsh's (2008) Mobile Phone and Instant Messaging Addictive Tendencies Scale. The path model indicates that both materialism and impulsiveness impact the two addictive tendencies, and that materialism's direct impact on these addictions has a noticeably larger effect on cell phone use than instant messaging. Conclusions The present study finds that materialism and impulsiveness drive both a dependence on cell phones and instant messaging. As Griffiths (2012) rightly warns, however, researchers must be aware that one's addiction may not simply be to the cell phone, but to a particular activity or function of the cell phone. The emergence of multi-function smart phones requires that research must dig beneath the technology being used to the activities that draw the user to the particular technology.
Die rasante Verbreitung der Mobilkommunikation in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat der Kommunikationswissenschaft nicht nur einen neuen Untersuchungsgegenstand beschert, sondern ist auch dazu geeignet, das Methodenspektrum des Fachs zu erweitern. Die hier vorgestellte Mobile Experience Sampling Method erfasst in situ - also in der natürlichen Umgebung und ohne auf Erinnerungsleistungen oder Rekonstruktionen der Befragten angewiesen zu sein - deren Verhalten, Gedanken, Gefühle etc. Sie stellt damit eine Adaption der aus der Sozialpsychologie bekannten Experience Sampling Method an die heutigen erweiterten technischen Möglichkeiten dar. Durch die Integration der Methode in die Smartphones der Studienteilnehmenden ist die MESM deutlich aufwandsärmer für die Befragten als die klassische Experience Sampling Method.
The aim of this article is to study how the corporeal and digital mobilities are spatially organised in relation to each other in everyday life. The dimensions of mobilities are modelled by using survey data (N=612) collected from Finland in 2011, Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA). The results show that the combined use of corporeal and digital means of mobility affect the spatial organisation of mobilities only little. The results indicate that young people and students are more likely to benefit from their mobility in networking activities as they are equipped with a larger variety of mobility means than older people and pensioners. Lastly, women and people living in essentially urban areas are more likely to augment their physical travelling practices by using small-sized digital mobilities than men and people living in rural locations.
In this article first of all I want to look at the current debate on fashion and the mobile phone. After a brief outline of the question, I discuss the role of fashion and then of design, an interconnected theme that has never been satisfactorily addressed in this debate. Then I analyse briefly how social networks and applications have introduced the discourse surrounding fashion and information about fashion to this device. My conclusion is that it is now necessary to make social science research converge with HCI research in order to have a better understanding of the potentialities of the mobile phone and a clearer vision of where research is now needed.
The use of mobile phones by youth has stirred a plethora of research in different fields. Literature has analyzed in length the changes and adoption patterns related to the evolving telecommunications industry. This body of knowledge often makes assumptions on the changes in consumer profiles and the value of different features. In this study we take an longitudinal approach by analysing the results of 1 928 responses to an online questionnaire conducted in Finland to students of a university in the Spring 2012 and on against the reanalysis of the responses of the Finnish students of upper secondary schools in the Spring 2001 and study on undergraduate students in 2006–2007. The results indicate that the youth and young adults of Finland, often argued to be an advanced country for mobile services, are surprisingly conservative towards new mobile devices and services. The changes in technology and service offering in a decade, has had a limited impact in attitudes and feature valuation, which sets significant implications to increasing adoption and usage.
Drawing from a representative sample of adults in the USA, this study explored the links between mobile communication and select indicators of social capital, while also accounting for usage patterns regarding the proximity of mobile contact. Overall, the findings show that mobile phone use intersects with proximity in distinctive ways that are related to spending leisure time with others in a face-to-face context and being active in organized groups and clubs. For individuals with primarily local usage patterns, both voice calling and text messaging were positively associated with social leisure activity. For those who primarily used the mobile phone to contact others from a distance, text messaging was positively related to social leisure activity, and for those whose mobile contacts were balanced between local and distant, voice calling was positively associated with active membership in organizations. Interpretation of these findings and directions for future research are offered in the discussion.
This paper focuses on mobile phone use by a young minority ethnic group as a medium through which to explore diversity and technology use in everyday life. Recent research with young people has shown that mobile phones are instrumentally, socially and emotionally important but few have problematized the homogeneous concept of ‘youth’. This paper argues for increased recognition of the intersections of social categories such as youth, gender and ethnicity with technologies, specifically mobile phones, in order to understand complexity of use. Drawing on new empirical, qualitative data from an urban area in the North East of England we explore the focus group narratives of young Pakistani-British Muslim women and men focusing on the notion of ‘shifting’ gendered and cultural identities and social practices, developed and reworked in relation to the use of mobile phones. We look at the gendered dynamics of mobile use, including gender talk and text, and ask whether the young women and men experience mobiles differently in everyday life. We also explore the ways in which mobiles are used to create ‘space of one's own’ and the gendered dynamics of remaining connected, especially to key peer groups. The paper concludes with the assertion that in order to fully explore the mutability of youth cultures across space and time, we need to develop a more dynamic concept of ‘mobile selves’ by exploring the place and meaning of technologies such as mobile phones in the rich tapestries of young people's lives.
Mobile phones have become a ubiquitous consumer item. This paper aims to explore mobile phone usage, extending work beyond teenage years to examine the role of mobile phones among urbanized Malaysian youth, specifically university students. Four main categories were identified, namely, mobile phone purchasing factors and reasons to use, mobile phone usage and also behavioral issues. A mixed-mode approach involving questionnaire surveys and 24-h diaries were used to gather the relevant data. A total of 417 respondents participated in this study. The salient results indicate respondents in this study consider brand, trend and price to be the three most important purchasing factors while socializing and privacy emerged as the two most important reasons to use mobile phones. Behavioral issues related to addiction and inappropriate use of mobile phones was also observed among the respondents. Gender analysis revealed females to use their mobile phones more to socialize, gossip and as a safety device. The findings of this study could prove to be beneficial to those exploring the mobile phone adoption and usage pattern in a developing country such as Malaysia.
Drawing from the theoretical orientation of apparatgeist, this article explores the cultural similarities and differences in perceptions and uses of mobile telephony. A sample of college students from Hawaii, Japan, Sweden,Taiwan and the US mainland was surveyed to assess: (1) perceptions of the mobile phone as fashion;
(2) attitudes about mobile phone use in public settings; (3) use of the mobile phone for safety/security; (4) use of the mobile phone for instrumental purposes; and (5) use of the mobile phone for expressive purposes.The results indicate some differences and several similarities among the cultural groupings and help to lay the groundwork for future research and theory-building.
SMS modules have been under-appreciated in the research on mobile business. This paper accounts for this gap by providing an overview of how SMS modules can deliver and capture value in a creative enterprise design. Five meta-trends explain why SMS modules have become prevalent, while eight mini-cases enlighten how they contribute to value creation.
The current study seeks to understand if there is a pattern between college students’ mobile phone usage and their family members at home, and to what degree it affects their college life. Three focus group interviews were conducted on February 1, February 2, and February 15, 2006. A total of 40 undergraduate students who were majoring in communication studies participated in the study. One of the main findings is that the mobile phone is “a must” for college students to keep in contact with their family. Other findings suggest that college students use mobile phones to have more frequent contact with their family and to fulfill family roles. College students also utilize mobile phones to share experiences and emotional and physical support with their parents.
This study investigated the evolution of specific cell phone feature preferences among high school, undergraduate and graduate college students in Finland. Following the relevant literature review, the paper analyzed the responses of 118 high school, 268 undergraduate and 84 graduate students from educational institutions located in the metropolitan area of Tampere, Finland. The results indicate that the students in Finland appreciate the specific feature “clock”, “phone”, “high battery life”, “alarm”, and “calendar” as very important, and the specific features “TV connectivity”, “joystick”, “live TV”, “Twitter”, and “small screen size” as unimportant features. There were also significant differences in the specific feature preferences between the students between high school, undergraduate and graduate students. In addition there were differences in the way the respondents conceptualize the specific feature preferences of the cell phone. The paper concludes with a discussion regarding the academic and managerial implications.
Body-to-body communication has widely been accepted as the prototype for mediated communication. This article interrogates the assumption that there is a dividing line between body-to-body and mediated communication. It shows that body-to-body communication intermingles profoundly with forms of mediated communication, to the point that it becomes very difficult to tell them apart. Starting from this framework, it analyzes the great imitative capacity of mediated communication with regard to body-to-body communication, and analyzes how this similarity is destined to grow in time. It concludes that because of these changes, body-to-body communication is an increasingly evanescent prototype.
Studies that go beyond the ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) framework emphasize the social and cultural dimensions of mobile phones. Nevertheless, the cultural dimension, in literature pertaining to both urban and rural use patterns, typically takes an individualistic orientation. The possibility of actualizing the collectivistic logic in a community's appropriation of new technologies is mostly overlooked. The present article explores how the fishers community in Kerala, India, use mobile phones in culturally enhancing and ecologically oriented ways that improve their working and living conditions. In the case of Kerala fishers, the impulse toward cooperation has long been ingrained in their culture, as often happens among marginalized groups. The availability of mobile technologies has allowed for the amplification of this impulse and enabled new modes of cooperation, especially in sharing of information on promising fishing spots and safety and rescue at sea.
Yhteenveto: Tieto- ja viestintätekniikoiden suunnittelu äideille : käyttäjäpsykologinen näkökulma. Diss. -- Jyväskylän yliopisto.
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