Week 8 - Abstract 3

This journal specifically looks at the impact of mobile phones in different areas of society, e.g. – “home, classroom, public spaces… space of peer connectivity enabled my mobile phones.” It has been high-lighted that there are a variety of cross-cultural likenesses when it comes to using mobile phones. With the author looking at Japanese culture specifically it demonstrates where the ‘Upgrade Culture’ rapidly exists within the world. With interviews with how the population of youth use their mobile phones, ‘even in lessons’ show how this type of technology has become a large important factor of youth’s everyday life and how they adapt this technology to meet their every day needs. There is also the element of connecting people in different places, therefore meeting the need of the geographically immobile, which enhances the convergence of different elements within technology to help advance society technologically.