Mobile Communication and Children

Mobile Communication And Children

Earlier and notable contributions provided a review of the numerous studies on youth and mobile communications (Ling & Haddon, 2008; Green & Haddon, 2009; Ling & Bertel, 2013). Drawing on this body of writing, continuing themes in the field from the late Nineties can be identified in the following: the investigation of particular communicative practices, such as texting; the analysis of the social functions of mobile phones, in terms of micro- and hyper-coordination; and the understanding of its social consequences, namely connectivity and social cohesion, emancipation, social exclusion, the disturbance of the public sphere, the extension of one’s personal sense of safety. Moreover, while the majority of the studies focused on how mobile communication fitted into teenagers' peers relations, the issue of parent-child interactions in relation to this technology also attracted a good deal of attention.