Mobile Phone Revolution and its Dimensional Social and Economic Impacts in Nigeria's Context

2015 ◽  
pp. 359-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Okanlade Adesokan Lawal-Adebowale
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Telecom Sector ◽  
Financial Transactions

The emergence of mobile phone telecommunication in the last thirteen years in Nigeria has greatly revolutionized the dynamics of information exchange and usage by group of individuals in the country. Unlike the past years before 2001 whereby physical contacts and/or letter writing were the major means of interaction between individuals that are farther apart on geospatial dimension, spatial interaction is now the order of the day as a result of institutionalisation of the mobile telephony services in the country. By virtue of the telecom sector deregulation in 2001 and competition for dominance by the four major mobile phone network providers in the country, namely Airtel, MTN, Globacom and Etisalat, as much as 162, 719, 517 lines were actively connected in the country with a teledensity of 94.4 as at July 2014. Based on this, exploitation of the communication tools by Nigerian has effected a transformed social and economic condition of the country in terms of attraction of investors into the telecom sector, generation of income for the Nigerian Government, creation of employment opportunities, ease of business and financial transactions as economic impacts. The social impacts of the mobile phone revolution in the country include facilitation of prompt interactive linkages and exchange of information, entertainment and social networking. Other forms of impacts include its influence on educational and health services in the country. Despite the transformation impact of the mobile phone revolution in the country, exploitation of the communication tool for social vices by unscrupulous individuals was too obvious to be underplayed. The negative impacts arising from nefarious acts-mediated mobile phone usage include loss of hard earned income by unsuspecting individuals to swindlers, road accidents as a result of usage of phone while on the wheel and provision of deceptive information by one person to the other while on phone. This notwithstanding, the telecom sector has proven to be of great value to most Nigerian's as it enabled them to readily interact with one another, facilitate business and financial transactions thereby enhancing their social and economic wellbeing.

Mobile Phone Usage and Its Socio-Economic Impacts in Pakistan

2019 ◽  
pp. 112-127
Author(s):  
Sadia Jamil
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Sindh Province ◽  
The Social ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
Mobile Use

Through examining use of mobile in Pakistan's Sindh province, the current chapter presents a unique and interesting case of the socio-economic impacts of mobile use on users' lifestyles. Although there exists an obvious divide between urban and rural areas in terms of impacts of mobile use, the case of Pakistan could serve as an alert to scholars that why mobile use remains limited in narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas against a backdrop of mobile being widely believed to be able to play a big role in narrowing the social and economic gap between urban and rural areas. The author of this chapter found that mobile use was also gender-biased in rural areas, resulting in a gap between males and females as far as social and economic impacts of mobile use on their lifestyles.

Citizen Science

2011 ◽  
pp. 414-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Paulos ◽  
RJ Honicky ◽  
Ben Hooker
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Measurement Instrument ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Hardware System ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
The Impact

In this chapter, we present an important new shift in mobile phone usage—from communication tool to “networked mobile personal measurement instrument.” We explore how these new “personal instruments” enable an entirely novel and empowering genre of mobile computing usage called citizen science. We investigate how such citizen science can be used collectively across neighborhoods and communities to enable individuals to become active participants and stakeholders as they publicly collect, share, and remix measurements of their city that matter most to them. We further demonstrate the impact of this new participatory urbanism by detailing its usage within the scope of environmental awareness. Inspired by a series of field studies, user driven environmental measurements, and interviews, we present the design of a working hardware system that integrates air quality sensing into an existing mobile phone and exposes the citizen authored measurements to the community—empowering people to become true change agents.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Penggunaan Smartphone pada Pembelajaran Jarak Jauh di Masa Pandemi Covid-19 Terhadap Interaksi Sosial Siswa

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Diah Putri Islamy
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Simple Linear Regression ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
The Social ◽  
Smartphone Use ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Impact

Smartphone is a high technology of communication tool with various modern social aplication. Nowadays, smartphone has become basic needs of human being especially during this pandemic of covid-19 that affected almost the country around the world. Smartphone has been a tool that must be provided in ourdaily life. Using smartphone during this pandemic covid-19help the students to have online learning from home that can be related to internet acces. Smartphone can give positive and negative impacts for the students. The positive are students can make online conference with teachers without interaction to other people and also they can get some informations or news from other countries. The negatives are the social interactions among students will be worse because they can not make friends, low of caring others and environment, and being able to be selfish child. The writer uses this research to know the impact of using smartphone during paandemic of covid-19 to the social interaction of students in regency of Sukarami Palembang. . This research is a quantitative research with data analysis calculations using SPSS 26 using simple linear regression with respondents of 100 students who live in the sub-district of Sukarami. Data collection was carried out by observation, filling out questionnaires and documentation. The results showed that there was an effect of the use of smartphones on students' social interactions simultaneously with an F value of 112.157> 3.09 (Ftable). Likewise for the partial test with the t test, namely the t value of 5.718> 1.98 (t table). As for the coefficient of determination, the contribution of smartphone use contributed 53.4% to students' social interactions

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.

scholarly journals Socio-Economic Impacts of Wildlife Tourism in Kasara, Chitwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79
Author(s):  
Janak Puri
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Impacts

Tourism is considered as one of the largest and fastest developing sectors of the world. Its high growth and development rates bring considerable volumes of foreign currency inflows, infrastructure development, employment generation, regional development, economic multiplier effects and introduction between host and guest peoples experience actively affect various sectors of society, which can positively affected to the social and economic development. However the tourism also generates a number of other negative socio-economic impacts on local communities. This study considers the mainly socio-economic impacts on local community trough tourism development in Kasara. The study is focused to identify the social and economic impacts on local community and their perception towards the tourism. The study is adapted the qualitative methodology and the data is generated through primary and secondary source, personal interviews, discussions and social interaction. The study identified that community has developed positive attitudes about the tourism development and the community is accepted tourism as a major income source through active and passive participations. As usually the tourism has generated both positive and negative impacts in the society. However, the negative impacts are at a minimum level when compare with the positive impacts. The social tradition, culture and human behaviour exchange between host guest interactions. The tourism revitalizes the culture and sometime declines the culture of the host country. The tourism helps to develop the livelihood of the people and can earn money from the different business and cultural activities. Community empowerment and their capacity building are highly important in this context.

scholarly journals Predicting regional COVID-19 hospital admissions in Sweden using mobility data

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Gerlee ◽  
Julia Karlsson ◽  
Ingrid Fritzell ◽  
Thomas Brezicka ◽  
Armin Spreco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Regional Hospital ◽  
Mobility Data ◽  
Social Mixing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
Future Hospital ◽  
Second Wave

AbstractThe transmission of COVID-19 is dependent on social mixing, the basic rate of which varies with sociodemographic, cultural, and geographic factors. Alterations in social mixing and subsequent changes in transmission dynamics eventually affect hospital admissions. We employ these observations to model and predict regional hospital admissions in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic. We use an SEIR-model for each region in Sweden in which the social mixing is assumed to depend on mobility data from public transport utilisation and locations for mobile phone usage. The results show that the model could capture the timing of the first and beginning of the second wave of the pandemic 3 weeks in advance without any additional assumptions about seasonality. Further, we show that for two major regions of Sweden, models with public transport data outperform models using mobile phone usage. We conclude that a model based on routinely collected mobility data makes it possible to predict future hospital admissions for COVID-19 3 weeks in advance.

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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