People, mobiles and society: Concluding insights from an international expert survey

Article Abstract:

A Delphi study involving a collection of industry and academic experts that investigates opinions across all aspects of social and cultural development concerning mobile phones is presented. The ability to provide connectivity and connectedness was found to be the most important positive effect from the mobile phone whereas intrusiveness and loss of privacy was the most important negative effect.

United States, Germany, Surveys, User groups, User group, Survey

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Postal presence: A case study of mobile customisation and gender in Melbourne

Article Abstract:

The mobile phone personalisation in an Australian sample group is studied to find out if sending of text (SMS) and picture (MMS) messages is crucial to the maintenance of personal social connections. It is concluded that personalisation is performative act, which proves that gender and identity are not innate, but are constantly practised, rehearsed and expressed in everyday life.

Australia, Gender identity, Case study

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From teenage life to Victorian morals and back: Technological change and teenage life

Article Abstract:

Negotiation of phone bills within families, specifically between parents and children, can be seen as a method some parents use to try to prepare their children for a time when they would have to take responsibility for their actions. Thus the management of the mobile phone has the potential to become an activity where moral and ethical codes are discussed within the children.

United Kingdom, Parent and child, Parent-child relations

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