University of Zürich
The innovative potential of cell phone technology in an evolutionary perspective
Expansion of cell phone usage as a multidimensional challenge for sociological theory and research
Implications for human individuals
3.1 The immanent functional expansion of phone usages
3.2 Accentuated differences between socially integrated and socially marginal individuals
3.3 The emancipation from local settings
3.4 Opportunities for complexity avoidance and regressive social insulation
3.5 Role-integrative functions
3.6 The need to control and limit accessibility
3.7 The simultaneous increase of individual empowerment, personal responsibility and social controls
3.8 The lost advantages of temporary non-connectionyou can download all the study in Pdf format from here
