Children And Mobile Phones : adoption, use, impact, and control / Barrie Gunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunter, Barrie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Effect of technological innovations on.

Children.

Cell phones--Social aspects.

Cell phones.

Cell phones and teenagers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

This book provides a resource for readers interested in the issues surrounding mobile phone use by children. Mobile phones are ubiquitous in young people's lives around the world. Most teenagers and many pre-teenage children have their own mobile phone and carry it around everywhere they go. While the mobile phone remains an important communication device for making and receiving voice calls, technological advances have evolved the typical device far beyond simple functionality. Recent models are multi-functional mini-computers with ever-increasing power that enable users to communicate through a range of channels and to engage in multiple other activities. For many young people, life without their mobile phone is unimaginable, but mobile phones can be a source of risk and threat. Understanding how they are used and highlighting potential dangers is an essential activity to enable the creation of sensible and acceptable strategies to ensure that benefits are maximised and risks are minimised. Stakeholders such as parents, industry, regulators, government and children themselves all have vested interests in how children use mobile phones and bear some responsibility for young mobile users.

Contents:

Prelims

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Emergence of mobile phoning

Chapter 3: The prevalence of mobile phones in children's lives

Chapter 4: Patterns of mobile phone use among children

Chapter 5: Gender and mobile phone use

Chapter 6: Mobile phones and children's social lives

Chapter 7: Health risks and mobile phones

Chapter 8: Social risks and mobile phones

Chapter 9: Mobiles, texting and language use

Chapter 10: Lasting impact of mobiles on children's lives

Chapter 11: Regulating children's use of mobile phones

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781789730371

1789730376

9781789730357

178973035X