Children And Mobile Phones : adoption, use, impact, and control

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. Wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Gunter, Barrie (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781789730357
9781789730371
DOI10.1108/9781789730357
Physical Description1 online resource (vii, 210 pages)

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Table of 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.