Mobile Phone Usage Patterns Amongst University Students: a Comparative Study Between India and Usa

Despite however person thinks, the world is divided between people who think how useful the cell phone is and what the cell phone change our life to the best and help us at our work and make the communication easily between people so it develops our society the other people who are convinced that it damages our life and decrease the social interaction comparing to the past.

This study examined cell phone use among university students that were alone and in a group. Specifically, we were interested in observing whether students alone in a coffee line or students in a group in a coffee line, spent more or less time on their cell phone. We were also interested to observe if gender affected cell phone usage and whether males or females were more likely to be in a group. The purpose of this study was to determine if university students that are alone spend more or less time on their phone than students that are in a group. We also examined if gender was an important factor on whether a student was in a group or alone. Using naturalistic observation, we calculated the amount of time individual students were on their phone per three minute time interval. The hypothesis was that students alone in a coffee line would spend the most time on their phone. We also predicted that women were more likely than men to be in a group.

About 91 percent of the US population has a mobile phone. Given that fact, more than nine out of ten people reading this essay own a mobile phone. In 2000, only about 53 percent of the US population owned a mobile phone. The use of the telephone just keeps on rising, and it is very hard to tell if it will ever stop. For many, they have never known a time without cell phones. The phone has changed over time and has revolutionized the way we live. Therefore, it is very important that everyone becomes more educated on the topic. In particular, it is important to learn about the history of the phone, inventors who have contributed to the phone, and how the phone has lead to controversies in today’s society.

One of every ten students around the world has symptoms cell phone addiction, and 68.8% of all students believe in the adverse effects of cell phones (Al-Barashdi 2015). Cell phones are an everyday tool that just about every college student in the United States owns. Cell phones are extremely useful in many regards, but very disadvantageous in others. U.S. college students, once studied from an anthropological standpoint, can provide important facts about how human beings are responding to technological advances in cell phones. My study centers on one overarching question: how do U.S. university students use their cell phones?

Thesis: The usage of cell phones in modern day society has caused quite the problem for citizens in this generation by being a major distraction, causing addictions, and has sadly became the main resource of communication.

Having a smartphone is seen in two diverse ways, good and bad, but by most people around the world, see

Cell phones play an important role in the exchange of information throughout the world today. The impact of this technological revolution across the globe has demonstrated a drastic change in which humans interact by carrying out real-time communication using cell phones. An analysis by Ezoe et al., (2009) in a survey about Harvard University students behaviors and addictions when using phones concluded that more than 65% of the college students directly interact with phones and more than 70% seem to be equally addicted to the cell phones. Nevertheless, it is indicated in the analysis that technology has greatly influenced phone use and the resourcefulness of technology has majorly underlined the use of phones in US institutions.

The authors rely on recent research studies regarding cell phone use among college students, noting that the students primarily use them for social networking, surfing the Internet, watching videos, and playing games. The authors also mention previous studies that suggest cell phone use can lead to a sedentary lifestyle, which might negatively affect behaviors that are vital for academic success.

As babies cry when they sense that their parents are away, people also become extremely anxious when they are not with this or even cry when they lose it: a cell phone. With smartphones’ great advancement, they have brought great convenience and become one of the necessary parts to mankind. Without a doubt, the time of cell phone use and its influence on people have drastically increased and problems of overusing smartphones are also followed by this phenomenon. The younger generation especially has problems with overusing smartphones because they are used to using modern technology and most of them interact with their friends through social networking. Following this trend, college students’ smartphone use has become an object of public concern and many types of the research related to the relationship between their cell phone use and academic performance in college have been conducted. Interestingly, from those research, there is confirmation that overusing cell phones directly affects students’ health and lifestyle and it ends up making a link with academic success.

Mobile phones have become a necessity for life, and without this thin gadget, many people would feel incomplete. We now use mobile phones in our everyday life as a phone, voice recorder, diary, alarm clock, watch and for making and confirming appointments, dealing with clients etc. Mobile phones are for many, fundamental when organising their lives. Mobile phones are not simply an electronic gadget, and it is difficult to define in one way about the usage of mobile phones. With the advances of technology, mobile phones are becoming a way of life. Mobile phones are not used as just communication tools but are also considered as devices which have strong communication networks along with the other functionalities such as audio solutions, FM

Did you know that cellphone are popularized suddenly in recent Africa? According to “Pew Research Center,” there are only one-in-ten people had a mobile phone in Tanzania, Uganda, Kennya and Ghana in 2002. However, the number of people who have a cellphone is growing, and cellphone ownership become common today even two percent of them had landline phone. In the research, they use cellphone for sending massages, taking a picture or video, making or receiving payments, getting a political news, and other ways. As the condition of Africa, people live a comfortable life with cellphones, computers, iPads, iPhones, tablets, and many digital devices as usual. In addition, the number of people who use digital devices is increasing gradually. For example, according to “Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds,” even 31 percent of eight years old to ten years old have own cellphone in the U.S. In the case of fifteen to eighteen years old, 85 percent of them have their own cellphone. In addition, the average of using entertainment media is 7 hours and 38 minutes per a day, and they use much time for texting, calling, playing games, and so on. These researches shows us how big number of child use digital media. When children use them, some people might feel anxiety as “The digital media must affects students badly.” However, this hypothesis is incorrect. Actually, students need to use digital media because using digital media has

When we talk about cell phone or mobile phones we are talking about a portable telephone or device that can be used to make and receive calls and text messages with another cell phone user provided they are within a telephone service area. As of its time of production it was considered a great technology but as time began to change along with people and the environment there was an increase in demand for more functionalities on the cell phone which led to the development of a new mobile which we know of today as a smart phone which could handle the demand for more functionalities. With the release of smart phones came an increase in application and with the availability of social application on smart phone it became a worldwide phenomenon in quick time due to its usefulness in almost every sector e.g. business sector, financial sector, entertainment sector and even the educational sector. This means that seeing student with smartphone device should not come as a surprise to anyone.

Until now, on this topic many researchers have investigated people’s average using times of cell phones per day, people’s average amount of time of using cell phones per day, people’s feelings of being apart from cell phones, and several most frequent activities people use cell phones for. The total numbers of people who own cell phones in different parts of the world can be counted by some media or organizations.

Mobile phone has been a daily necessity towards every human in almost every age group. Mobile phones nowadays are capable of so many things compared to the first ever mobile phone that was created in 1970s that looked like a brick with an antenna. As the title suggest, mobile phone ownership has exploded globally. This could be confirmed as the use of mobile phones are expanding to not only MEDC like the U.S., but also the LEDCs like Kenya. Even though the use of phone has exploded, but the usage of mobile phones in the two countries mentioned are different, which also made The US a periphery and Kenya as a core in terms of the mobile phone usage.

Mobile phones play a very important role in our daily routine. We use it to check our mail, communicate with those we are in touch with, social media such as Facebook and also for work purposes at work and places such as school or university. However as research and personal experience shows, mobile phones are fifty percent of a distraction to us and fifty percent beneficial. This research essay aims to discuss how mobile phones are beneficial to us and how they are a disadvantage and how the disadvantages can be rectified to make these devices more beneficial to our workplace and us. This essay will firstly pose a brief evaluation to show how mobile phones cause problems and distractions, but they can also be a major advantage to making our daily lives easier. Secondly it will discuss how the disadvantages may be lowered to make this device at least seventy-five percent safe to use and finally it will show how mobile phones will affect the future generations. The following essay will be inspired by information gathered from Mark Deuze’s book “Media Work”, a journal called “The production of Cultural Perspective” written by Peterson and Anand, and another journal written by Mark Deuze called “Media Culture and Society. Other information and research will come from other websites, news pages and articles cited within the essay.