Mobile Selves: Gender, ethnicity and mobile phones in the everyday lives of young Pakistani-British women and men

An empirical analysis of customer loyalty in Pakistan's telecommunication industry

“…They might also be investigated through intersection of social categories such as youth, gender and ethnicity with cellular technology in order to understand complexity of use. 43 The researchers have tried to incorporate these above mentioned factors as well in order to get a holistic picture of the customer loyalty in telecommunication industry of Pakistan. Future researches could focus on the utilization of cellular service from the perspective of demographic details, socioeconomic status and ease of technology adoption.…”

Are we evolved to live with mobiles? An evolutionary view of mobile communication

“…The grooming clique enabled by mobile phones allows humans to communicate transcending physical and spatial limitations [31]. For example, mobile communication enables par-ents to coordinate and organize their life while remotely attending to their children or without even having to leave their children [16,34,60,73,76] . Parents, equipped with mobile phones, become the embodiment of "home base" beyond the physical house that provides children with instrumental and emotional resources needed in daily life [67].…”

“…We surmise that several other psychological manifestations of mobile phone use can also be explained with EMT, extending the theorems currently developed under EMT. People unrealistically think they cannot live without mobiles (e.g., [34,42], think they are losing control because of being reached and reach others by mobiles [52] and feel burdened with the continued need to maintain accessibility via mobiles [79]. These psychological reactions may represent adaptive mechanisms that become activated as mobile phone users face cues that correspond to the adaptive problems our ancestors faced over the course of development [4].…”

Connecting People – Renewing Power Relations? A Research Review on the Use of Mobile Phones

“…In marital relationships today mobile phones are essential in creating and maintaining the “coupled identity,” the codes necessary for mutual interaction (Ling 2006, 64–5). In families with children, mobile phones enable “remote parenting”: parental control and care of their children and flexible coordination of the family’s daily routines (Caron and Caronia 2007; Christensen 2009; Green and Singleton 2007; Ling 2006; Ling and Yttri 2002). In societies with extended and close family ties, such as Jamaica, Pakistani‐British, Morocco, Philippines and India, mobile phones have also dramatically helped keeping in touch with relatives living far away (see Green and Singleton 2007; Horst and Miller 2006; Kriem 2009; Nagasaka 2007; Tenhunen 2008).…”