Tag: Smartphones
How to overcome your device dependency and manage a successful digital detox
Kelley Cours Anderson, College of Charleston and Karen Anne Wallach, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Life in the digital...
Complicated app settings are a threat to user privacy
Joseph K. Nwankpa, Miami University
Default privacy settings in popular mobile apps seem like a convenience, allowing you to...
Nationwide test of Wireless Emergency Alert system could test people’s patience...
Elizabeth Ellcessor, University of Virginia and Hamilton Bean, University of Colorado Denver
The Wireless Emergency Alert system had its...
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’s a Luddite? An expert on technology and society explains
Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University
The term “Luddite” emerged in early 1800s England. At the time there was a...
Gen Z goes retro: Why the younger generation is ditching smartphones...
Omar H. Fares, Toronto Metropolitan University https://narrations.ad-auris.com/widget/the-conversation-canada/gen-z-goes-retro--why-the-younger-generation-is-ditching-smartphones-for--dumb-phones-
There is a growing movement among Gen Z to do away with...
Why Apple can hold the line on iPhone prices, as smartphones...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
Inflation in the U.S. is surging to near a 40-year high, with prices on...
Gen Z smartphone addiction can boost compulsive buying – but businesses...
Nisreen Ameen, Royal Holloway University of London
People born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s – so-called generation Z...