[Air-L] Query on Research about "Too Much Communication"
Naomi Susan Baron
nbaron at american.edu
Thu Aug 12 15:16:37 PDT 2010
In response to Nancy Baym's question regarding research on user complaints
about "too much communication":
Recently I did a cross-cultural study of attitudes towards mobile phones
among university students in Sweden, the US, Italy, Japan, and Korea. One
of the themes that surfaced over and again was how much users felt that
communication via mobile phones was a double-edged sword: They both liked
the fact they could reach others but felt trapped by the fact others could
always reach them. Among the words of complaint were "addicted",
"stressed", "chained" -- you get the idea.
I've just finished a paper called "The Dark Side of Mobile Phones", in
which I provide both quantitative and qualitative findings. If anyone is
interested in the study, please contact me off-list.
Best
Naomi
Naomi S. Baron
Professor of Linguistics
American University
Washington, DC USA
nbaron at american.edu
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