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Mobile Communities and the "Generation that Beeps and Hums"
Abstract
A number of recent studies have shown that Australian youth, like their European counterparts, are utilising mobile phones – alone or in combination with the Internet - to develop and maintain new mobile youth communities. This can be seen not only as a lifestyle adaptation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) but also in response to the feelings of insecurity and lack of identity brought about by the erosion of traditional ‘places’- the home, family and community – an erosion which is occurring partly as a result of unprecedented rapid technological development.
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