Mobile mania, mobile manners
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The mania that has accompanied the exponential rise in mobile phone usage and a whole new set of mobile manners with different cultures, which have emerged around the world, is explored. The mobile phone culture is found to impact daily human existence related to social etiquette and spam and public policy for the protection of consumers should be wide in scope and include the prevention of abusive and harmful content (including spam and adult content) and the protection of privacy.
Publication Name: Knowledge Technology & Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0897-1986
Year: 2006
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The age of the thumb: A cultural reading of mobile technologies from Asia
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The mobile phone usage across Asian societies is surveyed to explore how mobile phone is used to maintain individual identities and social roles within families and tight-knit social groupings. It is shown how cell phones, apart from their utility, as a technology of information exchange, appears to have inserted themselves into the cultural fabric of societies across the world.
Publication Name: Knowledge Technology & Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0897-1986
Year: 2006
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