03315nam a2200445Ii 4500 9781789730357 UtOrBLW 20251029120212.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 190515s2019 enk ob 001 0 eng d 9781789730357 (e-book) 9781789730371 (ePUB) UtOrBLW eng rda UtOrBLW HQ767.9 .G86 2019 GTC bicssc LAN004000 bisacsh 316.36 Gunter, Barrie, author. 59717 Children And Mobile Phones : adoption, use, impact, and control / Barrie Gunter. Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (vii, 210 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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. Print version record Children Effect of technological innovations on. 59718 Cell phones Social aspects. 59719 Cell phones and teenagers. 59720 Language Arts & Disciplines, Communication Studies. bisacsh 59395 Communication studies. bicssc 59396 9781789730364 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781789730357 51548 51548