Mobile phones in young people everyday life: case study with Portuguese and Brazilian students

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2020.1.35850

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Media studies. Mobile technology. Communication studies.

Abstract

Mobile phones have become commonplace everyday objects in almost all societies regardless of their development stage. The presence of these devices has become a constant on any latitude, as shown by the penetration rate figures for 2018: 65.9%. These numbers, already surprising on their own, reach even higher values among young people. Thus, this paper studies the use of mobile phones, in particular smartphones, by young Portuguese and Brazilian university students. For this purpose, an app that registered all the uses made by the youngsters in their mobile devices, was employed. This methodology allows data collection in a daily context without the participants feeling controlled. A total of 317,938 interactions, registered in the participants devices, shows that the main use given to these devices is as a platform for access to social networks, followed by the sending of messages and the variable “second uses” of the device (watch, calendar, camera, calendar and calculator). Although this is a study in progress, at this stage it is safe to state that the data confirm previous studies (FORTUNATI; TAIPALE, 2014) in which smartphones assert themselves as a verbal written communication platform in opposition to their genesis based on orality.

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Author Biographies

Eduardo Pellanda, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, RS

Graduação em Publicidade e Propaganda pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (1998), mestrado em Comunicação Social pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (2001) e doutorado em Comunicação Social pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (2005). Pós-Doutor pelo Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Boston - EUA. Atualmente é professor da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul e membro do programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da mesma instituição.

Valeriano Piñeiro-Naval, University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã

Graduação em Publicidade e Relações Públicas (Universidade de Vigo, 2008) e Comunicação Audiovisual (Universidade de Salamanca, 2009). Doutor em Comunicação Audiovisual, Revolução Tecnológica e Mudança Cultural pela Universidade de Salamanca (2015) e atualmente é membro da unidade do LabCom da Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI).

Ana Cecília B. Nunes, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, RS

Coordenadora acadêmica do IDEAR - Labor atório Interdisciplinar de Empreendedorismo e Inovação da PUCRS e professora dos cursos de graduação de Jornalismo e Publicidade e Propaganda da mesma universidade, lecionando disciplinas sobre empreendedorismo, inovação e comunicação digital. Doutoranda em regime de cotutela pelo Programa de Pós-graduação da Faculdade de Comunicação Social da PUCRS (PPGCOM/PUCRS) e pela Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI - Portugal), pesquisando sobre inovação em mídia, particularmente no jornalismo.

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2020-05-29

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Canavilhas, J., Pellanda, E., Piñeiro-Naval, V., & Nunes, A. C. B. (2020). Mobile phones in young people everyday life: case study with Portuguese and Brazilian students. Revista FAMECOS, 27(1), e35850. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2020.1.35850

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