Essay Questions for: Is the Cell Phone Undermining the Social Order?: Understanding Mobile Technology from a Sociological Perspective
All around us we here about how bad our economy is doing in the U.S. Do you think that the crisis is having an effect on people’s cell phone uses? Do you and your friends only call on nights & weekends, the people in your network, or do you have the unlimited plan with your cell phone company? How does this affect you in your daily life? - Baker
Has text messaging become the new standard of communication? Instead of calling friends and family do you believe that people are resorting to text because it is a less personal way of communicating? Or do you believe that it is just a form of convenience and leisure? - Klaus
Have cell phones made each of us in our society less independent? Do phones render us completely incapable of functioning autonomously or are they simple a means of convenient communication between individuals? - Montemayor
Do you think that the ever expanding capabilities of the cell phone are creating an environment in which young children are being socialized to be anti-social isolationists? Will the children of today be able to function when forced to interact with other people in face to face interactions as adults. – Foxworth
Are cell phones destroying our professionalism? Many phones today can serve as email devices, cameras, portable music players, and have internet. Potentially, with a good phone you can dispose of your laptop, your digital camera, or your iPod. Is this trend of multi-purposing moving society away from the single purpose tools of the past? - Turner
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