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.

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.

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.

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.

Using Mobile Phones to Control Social Interactions

2015 ◽  
pp. 130-140
Author(s):  
Dominic Madell ◽  
Matt Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Social Information Processing Theory ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Mobile Phone Technology ◽  
Processing Theory

‘Cues-filtered-out' models of computer-mediated communication (CMC) imply that mobile phone use can inhibit the formation of social relationships by limiting transmission of non-verbal or non-textual cues. However, social information processing theory suggests that, to limit such effects, users unconsciously adapt their communication styles. This article agrees with that conclusion, and further notes that technology generally is adopted in a manner consistent with existing social contexts. This article also argues that people use mobile phone technology to deliberately control social interactions, effecting such control through choices relating to conversational synchronicity, continuous connection, and selective self-presentation. Finally, this article argues that the evolution of mobile phone behaviour may have an impact on human minds and social norms.

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.

scholarly journals The Usage and Social Capital of Mobile Phones and their Effect on the Performance of Microenterprise: An Empirical Study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mazharul Islam ◽  
Essam M. Habes ◽  
Md. Mahmudul Alam
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Mediational Process ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
High Level ◽  
Micro Enterprises

The purpose of this study is to uncover the impacts of mobile phone use on the performance of micro-enterprises (MEs) in Bangladesh, a developing country where the total number of mobile subscriptions reached around 131.38 million by the end of June in 2016 with penetration rate of 81 percent. Data were collected from owners of MEs through face to face interview. A multivariate analysis and SPSS macro developed by Preacher and Hayes were used as statistical techniques to assess the effects of mobile phone use. Results of the study indicate that micro-enterprises which owners were using mobile phone were having significantly greater benefits and financial performance compared to counterparts. A significant direct relationship between mobile phone use, and social capital and ME‟s financial and non-financial performances was found. A further investigation revealed that financial performance is also indirectly related to social capital and quality and enterprise processes, which are significantly influenced by mobile phone usage. Therefore social capital and non-financial business performances are involved in the mediational process between the financial performance of MEs and use of mobile phone. The novelty of this research lies in the establishment of, for the first time, high level statistical relationship between the use of mobile phone, its mediating factors and financial performance of MEs. The findings will assist micro-entrepreneurs and policy makers in taking right courses of action that make the implementation of this device more effective.

Disrupted copresence: Older adults’ views on mobile phone use during face-to-face interactions

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis Kadylak ◽  
Taj W. Makki ◽  
Jessica Francis ◽  
Shelia R. Cotten ◽  
R. V. Rikard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Potential Signal

This study investigates older adults’ perceptions of mobile phone use during face-to-face interactions and social gatherings. Data were derived from 9 semistructured focus group interviews. Study participants were older adult residents of Michigan, US ( N = 77). Focus groups were held in both urban and rural locations and our sample was heterogeneous in terms of race and socioeconomic status. Older adults in this study reported that the mobile phone behavior displayed by their younger family members during face-to-face interactions and family gatherings breaches their expectations regarding appropriate etiquette and manners. Specifically, participants reported they view mobile phone use during face-to-face interactions as disruptive to communication quality, offensive, and a potential signal of inattention, which may curtail intergenerational communication and hinder their sense of copresence. Limitations of our study and directions for future research are discussed.

Problematic Mobile Phone Use Questionnaire

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joël Billieux ◽  
Martial Van Der Linden ◽  
Lucien Rochat
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Problematic Mobile Phone Use
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