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- Title
From Teenage Life to Victorian Morals and Back: Technological Change and Teenage Life.
- Authors
Harper, Richard
- Abstract
Familiar issues about price emerge as motivating factors in conflicts, and the negotiation of the cost of mobile phone calls between family members--specifically parents and children--is a theme returned to in this article. Richard Harper sees conversations between parents and children about the cost of mobile phone bills as symbolic--they are not intended to limit the child's consumption, but more to open a discussion that may make them more aware of the economic and social consequences of their actions. Negotiating phone bills within families is, therefore, a method some parents use to try to prepare their children for a time when they will have to take responsibility for their actions. The management of the mobile phone becomes an activity where moral and ethical codes are discussed with the children.
- Subjects
TEENAGERS; PARENT-child relationships; CELL phones; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; TELEPHONE calls; FAMILY relations; SOCIAL interaction in adolescence
- Publication
Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2006, Vol 19, Issue 1, p28
- ISSN
1946-4789
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12130-006-1012-8