IMPACT OF MOBILE PHONE: A STUDY IN TARAI REGION OF UTTARAKHAND ARPITA SHARMA

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1 Journal of Computer Networking, Wireless and Mobile Communications (JCNWMC) Vol. 6, Issue 2, Dec 2016, TJPRC Pvt. Ltd. IMPACT OF MOBILE PHONE: A STUDY IN TARAI REGION OF UTTARAKHAND ABSTRACT ARPITA SHARMA Assistant Professor, Department. of Agricultural Communication, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar Uttarakhand, India Globalization has many aspects. It contains important characteristic in the form of ideologically charged narratives that put before the public a particular agenda of topics for discussion, question to ask and claims to make. The whole world is accepting and adopting the ways towards the advancement of Information and Communication technology. Today s youth are playing a very important role in development of our Nation. Our youth are using different ICTs like Internet and Mobile Phone. Past researches have shown that majority of young people used the mobile phone and internet in positive ways to organize and maintain their social networks. On the other hand some youth are concentrating on bad choices. Few youth are using new ICTs for taking Information, Knowledge and Education purposes. New technologies have positive as well as negative impacts like ostracism and cyber bullying. Young people are using new ICTs for negative as well as for positive purposes. In order to assess the impact of mobile phone among the Adolescent the present research study has been fabricated. Data revealed that positive impacts of Mobile phone are: Competence in communication, Accessibility of information, Socialization and for the Empowerment, Safety, Status and confidence, Communication and connectedness and Amusing. Data also revealed that according to the opinion of all the Adolescents mobile phone has several negative impacts as Time waste in gossips, Blackmailing and kidnapping, MMS and video clipping, Capture blue films and image, Capturing porn images and blackmailing. KEYWORDS: Mobile Phone, ICTs, Impact & Young People Original Article Received: Nov 12, 2016; Accepted: Dec 17, 2017; Published: Dec 21, 2017; Paper Id.: JCNWMCDEC20162 INTRODUCTION Mobile Phone is a tool of Information and Communication. Youngsters are using mobile phone for different purposes. Today, Young people are using this technology for education purpose also. This technology has positive and negative both impact. Incidences of cheating, Cyber Bullying, disruption to lesson are some of the negative impact of mobile phone. Like any new technology, mobiles create problems as well as solutions. To this point, much research and data on mobile phones has lacked a focus on gender. Although the social and economic advantages surely outweigh the disadvantages, more gender-focused research and projects are necessary to determine the potential effect of mobiles for women in the developing world. Nowadays, we can often see people talking on the Mobile Phone while walking down the street, or heading towards somewhere by bus, by car, by train or by subway and at the same time, reporting his or her location to someone else who is on the other end of the phone. These images seem to be able to answer the following questions: how can we maintain the constantly changing communication and interpersonal linkages and how can we utilize modern technology to reconstruct new forms of social relationships in modern days. In brief, it is the science-technology that helps advance the transformation of interpersonal linkages.

2 12 Arpita Sharma Researchable Questions On the basis of the combination of the technical and societal evolutions, the science-technology could increase the spatial mobility and communication capacity. What consequence will emerge in everyone s life after the changes caused by usage of MP? Will interpersonal contacts be extended or be restrained? Will it cause a lot of changes in personal intimated relationships? Will it widen the range of interpersonal contacts in individual or not? Will the more and more personal communication framework empower someone or not? Taking the usage of MP as the focal point, this study intends to provide empirical evidences to clarify these research issues. Generally youth used the mobile phone. Some of the researchable questions which are relevant in the context of present study are:- What are the utilization patterns of mobile phone among the Adolescents? What are the positive and negative impacts of mobile phone? OBJECTIVES To study the socio personal characteristics of the Adolescents. [2] To assess the utilization pattern of mobile phone among the Adolescent. [3] To evaluate the positive and negative impact of mobile phone. Conceptual Framework Mobile is an Information technology. According to the Roger Adoption of any technology includes five major points Knowledge, Persuasion, Decision and Implementation and confirmation. Roger s theory basically showed that how people adopt particular technology. On the basis of adoption of technologies they are categorized as innovator, early adopter, early majority, late majority and late adopter. Those people who adopt technology in the early stage are known as early adaptors. Early knower are highly educated, have higher social status, upward social mobility, greater empathy, less dogmatism, greater ability to deal distraction and more contact with the societal people. Their decision may be optional, collective and authority based. Different types of connections are available in the market but every individual has different choices because of their knowledge. REVIEW OF LITERATURE Anonymous (2008) reported that Mobile phones help to create an informative, connected, culturally innovative, participative, and converging society. The contribution to economies is analyzed in terms of creation of a mobile welfare. According to some researches four areas with major direct influences are identified: Infrastructure development, Better business practices, Improvements in the public sector, Contributions to collective welfare of the individuals via social responsibility. According to Matsuda et al (2005) Mobile phone is a safer ICT tool for young women on the public transportation and out on street places. Prochard (2004) reported that Mobile Phone is a very important tool to understand the change in the environment. Ramey (2008) reported that from providing health information to making women-run businesses more lucrative, mobile phones have impacted women all over the world. However, the seemingly endless possibilities of mobile phones for women bring with them a unique set of challenges. Rohit (2008) reported that there are lot many tasks a mobile phone can perform, but do people really use the technology in right way. Many of us would probably disagree with this. There are so many adverse effect of mobile phone. For example mobile phone addiction plagues chinese youth says that China which has the world s largest population of mobile phone users is now facing a new type of mental disease called mobile phone deficiency Syndrome (MPDS). On the basis of above reviews it can be concluded that Mobile Phone is a Information Communication Tool having a positive as well as negative impact on the society. It s use totally dependent on the users. Some people use the

3 Impact of Mobile Phone: A Study in Tarai Region of Uttarakhand 13 mobile phone positively and some are using for the crime as well some other negative purposes. Thus, it is necessary to study the mobile utilization behavior of students. Research Methodology The research study was carried out in the GBPUA&T, Pantnagar of Udham Singh Nagar District in Uttarakhand. A sample of 50 respondents was selected. Out of 50 respondents, 25 boys and 25 girls were selected through chit method. The collected data were classified and tabulated by the use of appropriate statistical methods like percentage, mean scores. Tools and Techniques Data collection was done with the help of questionnaire prepared for the purpose of the study. Based on the available literature and objectives of the study, a questionnaire was developed The questionnaire contained a series of close ended questions to obtain information regarding the personal and Mobile communication characteristics of the respondents. Questionnaire was divided into two sections. First section (Section A) consisted of questions regarding personal characteristics and the second section (Section B) consisted of questions regarding communication through mobile phone and utilization pattern through mobile phone. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS Impact of Mobile Phone Social Life Table 1: Distribution of Respondents According to Impact of Mobile Phone on Social Life S. No. No. of Category Respondents Percentage Difference Boys Girls boys Girls M-F 1 Competence in communication Accessibility of information Socialization Empowerment The data reveals from the table 1 that according to the opinion of all the boys and girls, mobile has various positive impact on the society. Mobile is used in Competence in communication, Accessibility of information, Socialization and for the Empowerment. Personal Life Mobile phone plays a significant role in everyone s daily life, becoming as the most popular communication tools. Table 2: Distribution of Respondents According to Impact of Mobile Phone on Personal Life No. of S. No. Category Respondents Percentage Difference Boys Girls Boys Girls M-F 1 Empancipication Safety Status and confidence Communication and connectedness

4 14 Arpita Sharma Table 2: Contd., 5 Amusing Social networking The data revealed that mobile phone has the greater impact on the personal life as Safety, Status and confidence, Communication and connectedness and Amusing. Young people use the mobile phone in positive ways to organize and maintain their social networks. Negative Effect Table 3: Distribution of Respondents According to Negative Effect of Mobile Phone S. No. No. of Category Respondents Percentage Difference Boys Girls M-F Girls M-F 1 Time waste in gossips Blackmailing and kidnapping MMS and video clipping Capture blue films and image Capturing porn images and blackmailing Data revealed that mobile phone has several negative impact as Time waste in gossips, Blackmailing and kidnapping, MMS and video clipping, Capture blue films and image, Capturing porn images and blackmailing. According to them some time Blank call disturbed them. The SMS send by company sometime give them information of new vouchers but in the classroom situation voice SMS or call from the various mobile or cellular companies disturbed them. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS Mobile phone has greater impact on the Adolescents both positive as well as negative. The users have higher degree of the usage intensity; they would have more contributed to the relationships, especially to the interpersonal contacts, many kinds of friends, friends hard to see and intimacy relation. Another side, when the users have higher degree of the usage breadth, they would have more contributed to the relationships, especially to many kinds of friends and friends hard to see and intimacy relation. REFERENCES 1. Anonymous (2008). Impact of Mobile phone on our youth Mar :24: Fortunati (2000). Remote Home Place Communication: What Is It Like and How Might We Support It? Interaction Technology Department HP Laboratories, Bristol Fox (2001). Evolution, Alienation and Gossip. The role of mobile telecommunications in the 21 st century. Social Issues Research Center, Oxford. 4. Prichard (2004). Youth and Cell Phones: Observations and Explorations Matsuda and Okabe and Ito (2005). Mobile Phones, Japanese Youth, and the Re-Placement of Social Contact. Keio University Forthcoming in Rich Ling and Per Pedersen Eds., Mobile Communicaitons: Re-negotiation of the Social Sphere 6. Ramey (2008). Nobody Sits at Home and Waits for the Telephone to Ring: Microand Hyper-Coordination through the Use of the Mobile Telephone. Telenor Forskning og Utvikling,FoU Rapport.

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