Thursday, 5 November 2009

LITERATURE REVIEW

Ling 2004 says that mobile phone is used for real time co-ordination while on the run; he also says that adolescents use it to manage their freedom; teens use it to send text to each other day and night. He goes ahead saying that mobile phones are more than a simple technical innovation or social fad, more than intrusion on a polite society. Dr Khurana 2009 says that mobile phone contributes in brain tumor. Peleg 2003 says that mobile phones play an important role in people’s life and people depend on it for daily routine. Hope 2006 explains that usage of mobile phone is a risk to men’s fertility due to electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones. Plant 2009-10-25 comment that mobile phone exposes its users to information which may not easily absorbed in a busy, unfamiliar or public context requiring them to ingest what may be incongruous news and to improve responses on the move. (www.cmch.tv 1 November 2009) pew internet and America life project found out that 39 percent of cell users of ages 18-29 say that they are not always truthful of where they are when there are on the phone. He also said that some teen cell phone users are likely to be woken at night by incoming text messages or calls and are therefore likely to be tired and less able to be focused. And so many other effects of mobile phone in human environment.
This research is done in other to analyze how mobile phone affects the society positively and negatively. Before now, some good researchers like Richard ling et al, had researched on the good and the bad that is the advantages and disadvantages of mobile phones, which we are
Ling 2004 say’s that, “mobile phones is used for real time co-ordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage their freedom, and teens text to each other day and night”. He goes ahead saying that, mobile phones is more than a simple technical innovation or social fad, more than just intrusion on a polite society. What is a society? (Encarta dictionary 2009) defines a society as the sum of social relationships among groups of human or animals. (www.google.co.uk) define the society as an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization.
Moreover, the use of mobile phone is very essential to human beings in the society; because of its essentiality some people cannot do without it because of its good benefits. Mobile phone keeps people in touch irrespective of the place or position of the caller and the receiver of the call; though before it was only used as means of voice communication but nowadays it has been modernize with new good tools inbuilt in it to make life comfortable for people, like SMS for message sending, MMS for sending and receiving pictures and images, camcorder for recording visual effects, MP3 for music player in which one can easily download music, also with alarm clock, calendar, reminder, timer, stopwatch and large memory space for storage of digital stuffs and with some electromagnetic radiating software that aid in the transferring and receiving documents for example infrared and Bluetooth and Television.
Through the above listed digital tools installed in nowadays mobile phone has made people’s choice of using mobile phone very high, which has caused some of digital company not sell their product like before.
Apart from mobile phones being very essential to the society, there are some vital issues users or operators of mobile phone should also know which are; the effects of mobile phone.
However, there are so many effect of mobile phone. Dr Khurana 2009 explains that mobile phone contributes to brain tumor due to electromagnetic radiation connecting the mobile phone to the transmitter. Hope 2006 explains that usage of mobile phone is a risk to men’s fertility due to electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones, she explain this after her research men sperm using mobile phone operators and tell men to adjust the time the use mobile phone that it brings infertility due to the radiation of electromagnetic wave connecting the mobile phone.