Essay(Midterm Sketch)
Mobile Awkwardness Jason Tseng Niplus777@gmail.com Abstract In this paper I will discuss the pervasive awkwardness and tensions brought by the omnipresent usage of mobile phone, and propose some simple solutions to these phenomena. As the technology progressing, mobile phone developers tend to integrate more and more new features and functions such as camera, touch screen, mp3 players or the capability to connect to internet, into current cell-phone, but very few efforts were put into reviewing the psychology aspect of the users and the emerging and existed emotional needs caused by the relatively new form of communication. Although there are lots of researches focusing on the social phenomena and social impacts brought by mobile phone, the results seem to have very few influences upon the development of cell-phone. My intention here is to highlight the most often seen emotional needs pervading in modern communicational process, mainly focusing on the process of “using cell phone to ta...
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