mobile phone impact on the culture of the comunity

mobile comunication have played and influencial part in media transforming over the past two decades, and it is aslo have been a great role in our lifes. the mobile phone is now used by 1.3 billion people worldwide, and more than 14 million subcribers in Asia. In 2003 there were an estimation of 1,340667 mobile phone subscriber worlwide in 2003; up frm approximately 91 million in 1995. more people now use mobile phone than they used fix phone, this shows that the mobile phone has givin the culture in our comunity a great impact. In many countries, more households have mobile phone conections than they do tradisional fixed phones. since the mobile phone was marketed commercially, the mobile phones has become much more than a device for voice telephones calls, it has become a central culture technology in its own right. mobile are associated with significant culture transformation, such as as the role of mobile in forming and maintaining social network. so the mobile phone have given such impact untill the subcribers has forgeten about the fix lin phones and they are now more dependent on mobile phones. there are now quite a number of studies of how mobile phones have been taken up in manny diferent countries, what distinctive culture and communicative practices have developed in different settings, and what mobile phones signify in different places. where there is not sufficient space here to place mobile phones in the broder landscape of digital media convergence, there are now important developments unfolding in at least 4 areas. the 4 eras are the intensification of mobile as a technology and media device, the rise of the mobile learning, mobile commrce, mobile for information and entertaiment, mobiles as game platform, the proferation of mobile communication technologies with growth of portable digital assistant, new new cultures of used around devices such as the nokia mobile phones, the interpenetration of mobile with new television formats and paltforms and more. this shows that a new culture wich is called the "mobile culture" has formed and daily life without mobile phones are missarable.

source:http://www.mang.canterbury..ac.nz/ANCA/FullPapper/18MedSocNewMediaFINAL.pdf