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- Title
Emotional Attachment and Mobile Phones.
- Authors
Vincent, Jane
- Abstract
Jane Vincent considers the emotional range of the usage of the mobile phone to maintain relationships between family and friends. As well as the positive emotional associations users had with their mobile phones, Vincent identifies alarming feelings of panic and anxiety amongst users that seem to indicate that the growing reliance we place upon the mobile phone as a device for social connectivity comes with a price when the device is absent. This emotional attachment to the mobile phone is a consequence, Vincent argues, of the investment we have made in our handsets. As well as being personalised, these devices become the repositories of our memories and social connections in the phone numbers, photos and messages that they store. The phone becomes an icon of 'me, my mobile and my identity'-- something that embodies our social and emotional life rather than just merely enabling it. Jane Vincent also identifies the growing problem of managing a private emotional life via what is essentially a device designed for use in public environments.
- Subjects
CELL phones; MOBILE communication systems; ATTACHMENT behavior; TRANSITIONAL objects (Psychology); SOCIAL networks; UNIVERSAL Mobile Telecommunications System
- Publication
Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2006, Vol 19, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
1946-4789
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12130-006-1013-7