Theorizing Phone Use Contexts and Mediation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sirpa Tenhunen
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Village

Chapter 2 develops a theoretical framework to understand the appropriation of mobile telephony in Janta as myriad fluctuating contexts, networks, and spheres of life extending outside the village. This chapter presents the book’s theoretical contribution to debates on social change and new media use, drawing from the following paradigms and concepts: domestication, polymedia, remediation, and mediatization/mediation. The book and the domestication paradigm share an interest in exploring how technology is adapted to everyday life and how it contributes to changes in everyday life through negotiation and social interaction. Different from the domestication approach, mobile phone use is explored in various contexts and in relation to face-to-face communicative contexts. Unlike studies utilizing the polymedia concept and mediatization scholarship, the book explores an environment where media use remains tangential because of economic and social barriers. The analytical framework highlights the relationships between mobile phone–mediated conversations and other speech contexts and media.

scholarly journals Procrastination and problematic new media use: the mediating role of future anxiety

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneta Przepiorka ◽  
Agata Blachnio ◽  
Andrzej Cudo
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Short Form ◽  
High Tendency ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Online Addiction ◽  
High Level

AbstractIn recent years, the new media have become so attractive that they are used for meetings, entertainment, and work. People more and more often use Facebook or phones instead of doing their work or family duties. The main aim of the present study was to test the mediating role of future anxiety in the relationship between procrastination and problematic new media use. The participants were students (N = 478), aged 18 to 27 (M = 19.93, SD = 1.77); 64% of the sample were women. The General Procrastination Scale, the Decisional Procrastination Scale, the Facebook Intrusion Questionnaire, the Adapted Mobile Phone Use Habits, and the Future Anxiety Scale—Short Form were used. The study showed that those students who procrastinated often reported a high tendency to engage in problematic new media use and a high level of future anxiety. The findings of the study have important implications for research on problematic Facebook and mobile phone use. They may be applicable in the work of psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists, both in prevention and in developing online addiction therapies.

Mobile Phone Culture: The Impacts of Mobile Phone Use

2015 ◽  
pp. 658-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung-Hyun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

From being a simple communication technology to a key social tool, the mobile phone has become such an important aspect of people's everyday life. Mobile phones have altered the way people live, communicate, interact, and connect with others. Mobile phones are also transforming how people access and use information and media. Given the rapid pervasiveness of mobile phones in society across the world, it is important to explore how mobile phones have affected the way people communicate and interact with others, access the information, and use media, and their daily lifestyle. This article aims to explore the social and cultural implications that have come with the ubiquity, unprecedented connectivity, and advances of mobile phones. This article also focuses on the discussion about people's dependence on, attachment and addiction to mobile phones, social problems that mobile phones generate, and how people value mobile phone use.

An exploration of adolescents’ sexual contact and conduct risks through mobile phone use

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariek Vanden Abeele ◽  
Keith Roe ◽  
Steven Eggermont
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Sexual Contact ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Chat Rooms ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Sexually Explicit ◽  
Opposite Sex

AbstractThis study explores the prevalence and predictors of three sexual contact and conduct risks through mobile phone use among adolescents (N = 540): (1) the exchange of sexually explicit content, (2) the sharing of one's mobile phone number with a stranger from the opposite sex, and (3) participation in anonymous chat rooms on TV. One in three adolescents admits having exchanged sexual content, one in five reports having shared their number with a stranger, and one in ten has participated in TV chat rooms. Contextual predictors were gender, age, having a (romantic) partner, self-esteem, popularity, susceptibility to peer pressure, parent attachment and attitude towards school. Strong mobile phone use predictors were the frequency of text messaging, problematic phone use and using one's phone to avoid face-to-face interactions. However, different patterns emerged for the different mobile phone practices and for girls and boys, indicating the need for further research.

Is Mobile Phone Use Invading Multiple Boundaries? A Study of Rural Illiterate Women in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-45
Author(s):  
Chhavi Garg
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Gender Divide ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Women In India

Blurring various boundaries of age, place of residence (urban/rural) and sociocultural–economic factors, the mobile phone has become an integral part of everyday life of almost everyone in this world. Through the identification of differences in accessibility and use of technology including the mobile phone, a digital divide is seen to be emerging, and what is of great concern is the emergence of a digital gender divide. The article is based on a study of mobile phone use by rural illiterate women in India, exploring whether three different parameters, namely, place of residence (rural or urban), gender and illiteracy, are hindering the use of the mobile phone or not. Nearly 85 per cent of the rural illiterate women studied were found to be using a mobile phone without necessarily owning it. It was their quickest means of communication and receiving information. A further improvement such as a community radio through which interaction with the outside world can be facilitated should be encouraged.

scholarly journals The Effect of Mobile Phone Use on Social Interactions among Millennials: An Ethnographic Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. p143
Author(s):  
Michael P. LaBella ◽  
Sufyan Mohammed-Baksh ◽  
Hyuk Jun Cheong
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Face To Face

The use of mobile phones among Millennials has grown to alarmingly high rates thereby affecting face-to-face social interactions and group dynamics. This ethnographic research study observed 150 individuals in real world, social group setting, ranging from dyads to groups of four. Analysis found that a majority of the individuals in groups participated in mobile phone interactions and some even spent more time on their mobile devices than did interacting with other members of the group. Analysis also found significant incidents of shared mobile phone use and reduced offline social interactions among individuals.

scholarly journals Impact of Adolescents’ Screen Time and Nocturnal Mobile Phone-Related Awakenings on Sleep and General Health Symptoms: A Prospective Cohort Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Foerster ◽  
Andrea Henneke ◽  
Shala Chetty-Mhlanga ◽  
Martin Röösli
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Screen Time ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Reverse Causality ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Falling Asleep ◽  
Sleeping Problems

Nocturnal media use has been linked to adolescents’ sleeping problems in cross-sectional studies which do not address reverse causality. To prospectively assess the new occurrence of sleep problems or health symptoms in relation to electronic media use and nocturnal mobile phone use, we used data from the longitudinal Swiss HERMES (Health Effects Related to Mobile phone usE in adolescentS) cohort on 843 children from 7th to 9th grade. Logistic regression models were fitted and adjusted for relevant confounders. Adolescents reporting at baseline and follow-up at least one nocturnal awakenings from their own mobile phone per month were more likely to have developed restless sleep (Odds Ratio (OR): 5.66, 95% Confidence Interval: 2.24–14.26) and problems falling asleep (3.51, 1.05–11.74) within one year compared to adolescents without nocturnal awakenings. A similar pattern was observed for developing symptoms, although somewhat less pronounced in terms of the magnitude of the odds ratios. With respect to high screen time at baseline and follow-up, associations were observed for falling asleep (2.41, 1.41–4.13), exhaustibility (1.76, 1.02–3.03), lack of energy (1.76, 1.04–2.96) and lack of concentration (2.90, 1.55–5.42). Our results suggest a detrimental effect of screen time and mobile phone-related awakenings on sleep problems and related health symptoms. However, the results should be interpreted cautiously with respect to adolescents’ natural changes in circadian rhythm, which may coincidence with an increase in mobile phone and media use.

Technology Facility and News Affinity

2014 ◽  
pp. 278-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xigen Li
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Expectancy Value ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Adoption Research ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
Value Model

Based on a theoretical framework drawn from the diffusion of innovation theory, the expectancy-value model, and the technology-acceptance model, this chapter presents an empirical study of technological and informational factors as predictors of the use of second-generation mobile phones as a news device. The study differentiates the initial adoption of a mobile phone as a technology innovation from second-level adoption, which refers to the acceptance of a distinctive new function of a technology device serving a communication purpose different from that for which the device was originally designed. The study found that technology facility and innovativeness were significant predictors of mobile phone use as a news device; further, it partially confirmed the model of predictors of mobile phone use for news access. However, the two informational factors—perceived value of information and news affinity—were found to have no direct effect on mobile phone use as a news device. The study departs from the traditional approach of adoption research and offers a novel perspective on examining the adoption of new media with multiple evolving functions.

Mobiles in public: Social interaction in a smartphone era

2020 ◽  
pp. 205015792092706
Author(s):  
Lee Humphreys ◽  
Hazim Hardeman
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Face To Face

This article reports on the findings from a field study of mobile phone use among dyads in public. Replicating an originally published field study from 2005, this study highlights how mobile phones and use have changed in the last 15 years and demonstrates the ways that mobile phones are used to both detract and enhance social interactions. Drawing on the notions of cellphone crosstalk and caller hegemony, we identify behavioral responses to mobile phones and the use of mobile phones by others, which help to manage both face-to-face and mediated social expectations of responsiveness. Based on observational fieldwork and interviews, we identify specific behavioral categories that demonstrate how social vulnerability and ostracism due to mobile phone use may be mitigated through parallel or collective mobile phone use. We also expand the original concepts of cellphone crosstalk and caller hegemony to mediated crosstalk and notification hegemony to account for contemporary changes in the sociotechnical mobile landscape.

Technology Facility and News Affinity

2018 ◽  
pp. 253-280
Author(s):  
Xigen Li
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Expectancy Value ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Adoption Research ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
Value Model

Based on a theoretical framework drawn from the diffusion of innovation theory, the expectancy-value model, and the technology-acceptance model, this chapter presents an empirical study of technological and informational factors as predictors of the use of second-generation mobile phones as a news device. The study differentiates the initial adoption of a mobile phone as a technology innovation from second-level adoption, which refers to the acceptance of a distinctive new function of a technology device serving a communication purpose different from that for which the device was originally designed. The study found that technology facility and innovativeness were significant predictors of mobile phone use as a news device; further, it partially confirmed the model of predictors of mobile phone use for news access. However, the two informational factors—perceived value of information and news affinity—were found to have no direct effect on mobile phone use as a news device. The study departs from the traditional approach of adoption research and offers a novel perspective on examining the adoption of new media with multiple evolving functions.

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