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  • Does location matter? [Elektronski vir] : a comparative study on mobile phone use among young people in Finland
    Taipale, Sakari
    This article aims to explore to what extent young people living in different kind of cities and towns use the mobile phones similarly or not. The article relies on Georg Simmel's theory on urban ... everyday life and contemporary analyses on mobile communication. According to them, the mobile phone is an urban phenomenon as it responds best to the needs of hectic urban life. The article takes advantage of quantitative survey data collected in 2005 (N=421). It consists of young people aged 15 to 25 years living in urban and non-urban location in Finland. The results show that the non-urban users are more active mobile "entertainers" and "time-coordinators" than those living in the urban environment. It is deducted from the results that detected differences may stem from the lack of alternative sources of amusement in the non-urban locations. On the other hand, longer physical distances and a lack of public transportation may generate more need for time-coordination in the non-urban areas.
    Source: Nmediac [Elektronski vir] : the journal of new media & culture. - ISSN 1542-0280 (Vol. 6, no. 1, Sum. 2009)
    Type of material - e-article
    Publish date - 2009
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 35744349

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    http://www.ibiblio.org/nmediac/summer2009/MobileLocation.html

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