Children, Youth and the Mobile Phone

Ling, Rich; Haddon, Leslie

doi:10.4135/9781848608436.n9

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“…Younger girls praise emancipation from their parents and the freedom to communicate with their peers away from parental surveillance (Ling & Haddon, 2008). Teenage girls and boys, instead, emphasise especially the opportunity to strengthen friendship ties and build new relationships afforded by constant availability.…”

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Perpetual contact as a communicative affordance: Opportunities, constraints, and emotions

Mascheroni

Vincent

2016

Mobile Media & Communication

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This paper draws on qualitative data collected as a part of a comparative study on children and teenagers' uses of smartphone in nine European countries to explore the meanings and emotions associated with the enhanced possibility of "fulltime" contact with peers provided by smartphones. It argues that full-time access to peers -which interviewees identify as the main consequence of smartphones and instant messaging apps on their interactions with peers -is a communicative affordance, that is, a set of socially constructed opportunities and constraints that frame possibilities of action by giving rise to a diversity of communicative practices, as well as contradictory feelings among young people: intimacy, proximity, security as well as anxiety, exclusion and obligation. Understanding the perceptions and emotions around the affordance of "anywhere, anytime" accessibility, therefore, helps in untangling how communicative affordances are individually perceived but also, and more importantly, socially appropriated, negotiated, legitimised and institutionalised.

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Perpetual contact as a communicative affordance: Opportunities, constraints, and emotions

Mascheroni

Vincent

2016

Mobile Media & Communication

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“…Nowadays, however, Finnish children usually get their first mobile phone as soon as they start to move independently outside their homes (i.e. go to school) as parents consider that owning a mobile phone increases children's safety [18,21]. 82% of Finnish seven year olds and 94% of eight year olds had their own mobile phone in 2010.…”

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“…for identification. [18] Children are often the first ones to feel the winds of change in form of games, computers and mobile phones [28]. Most of the Finnish 7-8 year old use very diverse media.…”

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“…In the beginning mobile phones were intended for business people, but nowadays they are a phenomenon especially among children and youth. The iconic status of mobile phones amongst the young has been one of the biggest surprises in the telecommunication industry [18] and a lot of research had been done regarding children, youth, and their use of mobile communication technology.…”

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Kinnula

2012

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

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Mobile devices and communication have become ubiquitous in the west and people born to this millennium start interacting with this environment from early on. These digital natives' approach to the world and expectations of how it should operate may differ from that of the digital immigrants'. This creates a risk of a design conflict, where solutions developed by immigrants may fit poorly to the natives' way to do things. It is important to understand digital natives better in order to know what design principles hold true with them. We interviewed 6-7 year old Finnish girls, who had just started school and had gotten their first mobile phone, to understand what their experiences are on using mobile phones, what they think of mobile phone use, and how they use them. This paper reports our preliminary results and proposes possible new avenues for research of digital natives.

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“…the study of the uses and consequences of new media for leisure time, family life and the peer relations of young people has become an important field of research (Drotner, 1999;Heim et al, 2007;Kaare et al, 2007;Ling, 2006;Livingstone, 2002;Livingstone & Bovill, 2001). in modern Western societies, the emergence of new multimedia cultures is crucial to the lives of children and young people.…”

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Youth as Producers

Kaare¹

2008

Nordicom Review

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What are the actual inner processes taking place when youth shape and share stories about their lives through digital storytelling? in the present study, we follow an experiment in religious education in a local congregation outside Oslo. in the autumn of 2005, the Church of Norway initiated a project wherein young people raised questions of faith and life in short biographical mini-films called 'Digital Faith Stories'. As the title suggests, digital tools are central to the project. We focus on the youth participants, analysing their role as media producers and following the construction of their stories. the adult leaders of the project are also given some attention. The analysis shows that the method of 'Digital Storytelling' might lead to a more systematic educational method for including the lifeworld of the young in religious training. the research has been carried out in cooperation with Prof. Knut Lundby.

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Children, Youth and the Mobile Phone

Cited by 47 publications

References 16 publications

Perpetual contact as a communicative affordance: Opportunities, constraints, and emotions

Perpetual contact as a communicative affordance: Opportunities, constraints, and emotions

"It would be handy if it had pictures, if you can't read"

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