Ling, Rich and Haddon, Leslie 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7338-7232
(2008)
Children, youth and the mobile phone.
In: Drotner, Kirsten and Livingstone, Sonia, (eds.)
The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture.
Sage Publications Ltd., London, UK, pp. 137-151.
ISBN 9781412928328
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Abstract
Children, youth and the mobile phone In its short life, a surprisingly large literature on the use of mobile communication among children and teens has been written. Indeed, in recent years there has hardly been a conference or a collection of readings that did not include work in this area. The iconic status of the mobile telephone among children and teens has been one of the big surprises associated with this form of communication. While originally conceived as a way to allow business people to interact, mobile telephony has become, perhaps more than anything else, a phenomenon of teens and young people. Reports from Japan (Hashimoto, 2002; Ito, 2005), the Philippines (Ellwood-Clayton, 2005) the broader Asian context (Castells et al. , 2007; Kim, 2004), Norway (Ling, 1999, 2000, 2001a,b; Ling and Yttri, 2002; Skog and Jamtøy, 2002), the UK (Green and Smith, 2002), Finland (Rautiainen and Kasesniemi, 2000; Nurmela, 2003; ...
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/home |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2015 13:51 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2024 05:12 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/63204 |
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