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THE MOBILE CONNECTION Cell Phones Impact on Society Book

This book looks into the social consequences of mobile telephony. The particular focus is on the private sphere.3 It examines how the mobile phone is used to provide a sense of safety, to coordinate activities, and to provide accessibility, and it studies how this device disrupts the public sphere. The mobile phone’s appearance in society has resulted in turbulence. In this process it has exposed the “taken for granted” assumptions regarding how society and social institutions function. It provides insight into how adolescents manage or — to use the concept developed by Glaser and Strauss (1967) — how they shape their emancipation. It is used in the integration of the teen peer group, it allows for “real-time” microcoordination of social interaction; it “softens” appointments and questions our assumptions about the sanctity of formalized meeting times; it engenders new notions of safety and security; it enables us to colonize portions of the public sphere for personal interaction; and it even exposes the elasticity of language, as seen in the rise of Short Message Service (SMS) and texting. At a slightly more abstract level, we can see that the mobile telephone lowers the threshold for social interaction within groups and, at least within the groups, contributes to the maintenance of social capital.

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