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.

scholarly journals Some systematic aspects of self-initiated mobile device use in face-to-face encounters

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-235
Author(s):  
Florence Oloff
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Observational Studies ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Device Use

This contribution is interested in the interactional management of mobile phone use in face-to-face encounters. Early observational studies of mobile phone use have emphasized the tension between the participants’ presence in “public” spaces and their “private” activities on mobile phones. This assumed dichotomy and possible conflict between different communication involvements will be revisited by using a conversation analytic approach to mobile phone use in video recorded everyday encounters among friends and family members. Three examples of self-initiated text messaging or calling will illustrate how and on which sequential (or other interactional) grounds participants frame their mobile phone use for co-present others. More specifically, the analysis will discuss how participants format and respond to announcement sequences or their absence, and how they can orient to the phone users’ accountability.

Children's Text Messaging and Traditional Literacy

2009 ◽  
pp. 492-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverly Plester ◽  
Clare Wood ◽  
Samantha Bowyer
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Verbal Reasoning ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

The authors present three investigations into pre-teen children’s text message language and measures of their standard literacy abilities. The children translated sentences, from standard English into text, and from text into standard English , and wrote text messages appropriate to a set of scenarios. They categorised text abbreviations used and calculated the proportion of abbreviations to total words. The children completed a questionnaire about their mobile phone use. Text messaging facility was positively associated with verbal reasoning, vocabulary, school achievement in English, and reading ability across the three studies. Texting provides opportunity for children to communicate in writing without the constraints of standard English, and we propose that the playful variants on words that they use in texting, and their ability to encode spoken slang graphically, show not a lack of knowledge of English, but a light hearted use of phonological and alphabetic decoding principles that also underpin standard English.

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 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.

Mobile Phone Usage in Organizational Communication and Decision-Making

2014 ◽  
pp. 240-257
Author(s):  
Yun Xia ◽  
Yuping Mao
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Relationship Maintenance ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage

Through individual in-depth interviews, the authors examine employees’ use of mobile phones for decision-making and internal/external communication in the China branch of a multinational company. The study shows that mobile phones are a key communication tool in the company. Voice calls are the most preferable way of mobile phone use due to their synchronous nature for instant communication and the rich verbal cues they carry. Text messaging is an unobtrusive way of business communication and it can be used as the formal documentation of business decision-making. Group text messaging turns the mobile phone into a mass communication platform for customer relationship maintenance. Contingency theory is applied to further discuss the findings, and practical recommendations are also provided.

Mothers Intention to Use Mobile Phone Text Message Reminders for Routine Child Vaccination in Northwest, Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeleke Abebaw Mekonnen ◽  
Kassahun Alemu Gelaye ◽  
Martin C. Were ◽  
Binyam Tilahun
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Child Vaccination

Abstract Background: The immunization program in most developing countries including Ethiopia is challenged by lack of effective methods to track vaccination schedules. With the unprecedented penetration of mobile devices in developing world, mHealth applications are being leveraged for different disease domains. Among the different factors that affect the use of mHealth interventions is the intention of end users to use the system. In this research, we aimed to fill the evidence gap by investigating mother’s intention to use text-message reminders for vaccination in north-west, Ethiopia.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 460 mothers presenting with their infants for vaccination at a health facility from October 1 to 26, 2018. A systematic random sampling technique was applied to select study participants. Data were collected using validated instrument. Descriptive statistics were computed and binary logistic regression analyses was used to assess factors associated with the outcome variable. The regression results were reported as AORs with their 95% CIs. Results: Of 456 mothers included for analysis, 360 (78.9%) with 95% CI: (74.9% - 82.4%) of mothers have intention to use mobile phone text message reminders for vaccination. Of these, 270 (75%) also wanted to receive the reminders a day before the vaccination due date for the child. The preferred language for receiving reminders was Amharic language (58.1%). Mothers aged 35 years and above [AOR = 0.352; 95%CI: 0.149- 0.833], secondary education and above [AOR= 4.428; 95% CI: 2.046- 9.580], mobile phone use for more than two years [AOR= 3.627; 95%CI: 1.657-7.938], perceived usefulness [AOR: 6.372; 95%CI: 3.128-12.981] and perceived ease of use [AOR: 3.847; 95%CI: 2.061- 7.180] were predictors of intention to use mobile phone text message reminders for vaccination.Conclusion: Majority of mothers have intention to use mobile phone text message reminders for child vaccination. Mother’s age, education, duration of mobile phone use, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use were associated with intention of mothers to use mobile phone text message reminders for vaccination. Considering these predictors and user’s preference could inform the implementation strategy for use of the mHealth supported text messaging interventions in the resource limited setting of Ethiopia.

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.

scholarly journals Association between exposure to sexually explicit content in the electronic media and sexual intentions of in-school adolescents in Southwest Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Adeolu ◽  
Eme Owoaje ◽  
Adesola Olumide
Keyword(s):  
School Connectedness ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
High Exposure ◽  
Sexual Media ◽  
Sexually Explicit ◽  
The Media ◽  
Explicit Content ◽  
Sexual Intention

Abstract Background: Many adolescents are exposed to a significant amount of sexual content in the media. This has far-reaching effects on their sexual practices as this exposure is occurring at a period when most adolescents are often not sure of the choices to make, and the choices they make during adolescence affect their health when they become adults. The aim of this study was to assess the association between exposure of in-school adolescents to sexual content in the electronic media and their sexual intentions. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, information was obtained from 750 senior secondary school students in private and public schools using interviewer-administered questionnaire. Sexual media content in the movies, music video and Internet was assessed using a modified version of the sexual media diet tool. The dependent variable was sexual intention; the main independent variable was exposure to sexually explicit content in the media and confounders that were controlled for selected individual (age, sex, religiosity, self-esteem and attachment to parents), family (parents’ marital status, parents’ type of marriage, hands-on parenting and parent-adolescent communication on sex) and environmental factors (school connectedness and influence from peers) which were previously reported to be associated with sexual intentions of adolescents. Chi-square test was used to determine associations between sexual content of the electronic media and adolescents’ sexual intentions, and confounders were controlled for using logistic regression analysis. Results: Thirty-six percent of respondents were exposed to overtly explicit sexual content from all forms of media in the 3 months prior to this study. Twenty-four percent of the adolescents indicated their intention to have sex within 12 months following the study. Predictors of sexual intention were as follows: moderate [odds ratio, OR=2.21 (95% confidence interval, CI: 1.22–3.99)] and high exposure to sexual content in the media [OR=3.02 (95% CI: 1.69–5.43]; attending a public school [OR=2.19 (95% CI: 1.26–3.83)]; moderate peer pressure [OR=2.36 (95% CI: 1.41–3.95)] and high peer pressure [OR=10.32 (95% CI: 2.94–36.31)]; and previous history of sexual intercourse [OR=3.89 (95% CI: 2.25–6.76)]. Conclusion: Many adolescents were exposed to sexually explicit content in the media and this had a strong association with sexual intention. Interventions to censor sexually explicit content in the media are required to protect adolescents from the consequences of early exposure to sex.

Mobile Phone Usage in Organizational Communication and Decision-Making

2016 ◽  
pp. 1673-1689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Xia ◽  
Yuping Mao
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Relationship Maintenance ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage

Through individual in-depth interviews, the authors examine employees' use of mobile phones for decision-making and internal/external communication in the China branch of a multinational company. The study shows that mobile phones are a key communication tool in the company. Voice calls are the most preferable way of mobile phone use due to their synchronous nature for instant communication and the rich verbal cues they carry. Text messaging is an unobtrusive way of business communication and it can be used as the formal documentation of business decision-making. Group text messaging turns the mobile phone into a mass communication platform for customer relationship maintenance. Contingency theory is applied to further discuss the findings, and practical recommendations are also provided.

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