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Title:
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INDISPENSABILITY OF MOBILE PHONES: AN EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON TO INTERNET AND TV. |
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Author(s):
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Otto Petrovic , Elisabeth Platzer , Emanuel Maxl , Wolf Rauch |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-93-5 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Bebo White and Miguel Baptista Nunes |
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Year:
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2009 |
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Edition:
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1 |
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Keywords:
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Media deprivation, media indispensability, experimental research |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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342 |
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Last Page:
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350 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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As media usage has changed in the course of time new media have captured more and more space in peoples daily
routines. This experimental research analyses the modalities and extents of some medias (TV, internet, mobile phone)
indispensability to our lives. Therefore 64 students had to do without the media in question for two weeks in order to gain
data on their actual indispensability and the students perceived indispensabilities. In this paper the very first results of
this study are presented. Only one participant managed to preserve all three non-usage phases. In addition to that one
participant respectively three participants bore up mobile phone and TV deprivation. |
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