Researching the immediate world (16 March 2006)

Rich Ling: Mobile Phones and Bounded Intimacy (PDF)

This presentation will consider the impact of mobile phone use, including text messaging, on communication by young people. The methods and challenges to research in this area of communication will be highlighted.

Nicky Shaw: Mobile phone use – a social network perspective (PDF)

This presentation describes an investigation of student networks in first year management and medical students for peer-learning and socialisation. The use of different communication media (from face to face, to internet live web-chats) is contrasted.

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