Tag: Mobile phones
Do smartphones belong in classrooms? Four scholars weigh in
Louis-Philippe Beland, Carleton University; Arnold Lewis Glass, Rutgers University; Daniel G. Krutka, University of North Texas, and Sarah Rose, Staffordshire University
What is Fog Reveal? A legal scholar explains the app some...
Anne Toomey McKenna, University of Richmond
Government agencies and private security companies in the U.S. have found a cost-effective...
‘Wrong number? Let’s chat’ Maasai herders in East Africa use misdials...
Timothy D. Baird, Virginia Tech; Emily Woodhouse, UCL, and J. Terrence McCabe, University of Colorado Boulder
Sometimes wrong numbers...
Using your phone on a plane is safe – but for...
Sven Bilén, Pennsylvania State University
Over the Thanksgiving travel period an estimated 30 million Americans plan to fly to enjoy turkey and all the trimmings...
Why Silicon Valley wants you to text and drive
Jack Barkenbus, Vanderbilt University
As self-driving cars come closer to being common on American roads, much of the rhetoric promoting them has to do with...
‘Screen time’ is about more than setting limits
Nathan Fisk, University of South Florida
In today’s media-rich world (or media-saturated, depending on your view), one rarely has to look far to find parents...
Attackers can make it impossible to dial 911
Mordechai Guri, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Yisroel Mirsky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Yuval Elovici, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
It’s not often...
Who wants a BlackBerry these days? Millions in Africa and Asia
By Nigel Linge, University of Salford
BlackBerry, once the must-have device for the sweaty palms of executives and wannabe executives everywhere, has seen its global...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
