There are 62.5m Mobile Phones in the UK and it is estimated that 85% of the adult population own a mobile.
Cell phones bring benefits of convenience, security and safety, accessibility, improved communications, access to the Internet, entertainment in the form of music, video and games, SMS messaging and, of course, imaging and video capability.
There are also negative impacts - intrusiveness, irritating ringtones, overheard half-conversations, unsolicited calls and SMS messages and often users can feel they are always on-call.
There has been a significant impact on our urban landscape – banks of telephone call boxes in our city centres have all but disappeared and wherever we look we see our fellow citizens, calling, texting, browsing and listening to their mobiles.
This set of images aims to capture a sense of the impact this technology has had on daily life in the UK.
The mobile phone has brought with it cultural change. A new etiquette has developed with conversations interrupted whilst a call is answered or an “urgent” text responded to. And, of course “Text Speak” has entered many aspects of daily life with research suggesting that its use is changing the way people speak and write.
However we may feel about the social and cultural impact of this technology, there is no doubt that the mobile phone in all its forms will continue to be a major part of daily life for the foreseeable future.
Cell phones bring benefits of convenience, security and safety, accessibility, improved communications, access to the Internet, entertainment in the form of music, video and games, SMS messaging and, of course, imaging and video capability.
There are also negative impacts - intrusiveness, irritating ringtones, overheard half-conversations, unsolicited calls and SMS messages and often users can feel they are always on-call.
There has been a significant impact on our urban landscape – banks of telephone call boxes in our city centres have all but disappeared and wherever we look we see our fellow citizens, calling, texting, browsing and listening to their mobiles.
This set of images aims to capture a sense of the impact this technology has had on daily life in the UK.
The mobile phone has brought with it cultural change. A new etiquette has developed with conversations interrupted whilst a call is answered or an “urgent” text responded to. And, of course “Text Speak” has entered many aspects of daily life with research suggesting that its use is changing the way people speak and write.
However we may feel about the social and cultural impact of this technology, there is no doubt that the mobile phone in all its forms will continue to be a major part of daily life for the foreseeable future.
