Uses of Cellphone and Its Impact on our

Society with Respect to Present Era: A

Case Study

Raja Umer

Abstract:
The reason for this research was to investigate uses of cellphones, its belongings
and to analyze how new media reflect and influence the social world through
cellphones with the assistance of Uses and Gratification theory. This paper will tell
about the learning of understudies through cellphones and how individuals draw
their understandings of normal social standards through new innovations.
Inordinate utilization of cellphones has sway on the consideration and the
learning of understudies during the talks in the homeroom. As indicated by tests
the members who were occupied by the cellphones during the talk performed
more awful in the tests/tests than the individuals who were not diverted.
Cellphones made chances of association for social orders just as gives occasions to
cooperation and made correspondence simple.

Keywords:
Cellphones, Communication, Society, Uses, Social Interaction, Wireless
technologies, Attention, Learning, Nomophobia.

Introduction:
The Communication and figuring both for cellphones are in the evolving cycle to
unite them to work and get preferences of these gadgets and appropriate
working of the gadgets from every single industry. A study by ECAR in 2012 on
utilization of cellphones in advanced education expresses that 67% of
understudies accept that cellphones are the accomplishment for them in
investigations and scholarly exercises (Cavus and Ibrahim, 2008, 2009).
Cellphones can help in to give information, course substance, associate with their
educators and class colleagues any place they are. Despite the fact that
cellphones are still new and examination are as yet zeroing in on to get more on
the adequacy and medical problems on the over the top utilization of cellphones.
Cellphones were likewise presented in the market as an advertising methodology,
alluding to the new class of present day cellphones they give numerous things
together, for example, registering, correspondence and it likewise incorporates
informing, sound messages, remote correspondence and individual data the
board applications (Shih and Mills, 2007). Presently a days we additionally
consider cellphones as advanced mobile phones that are having progressed
includes and having better capacities calls and sending or accepting instant
messages. They are having better characteristics, for example, to show pictures,
play recordings, catch photographs or record recordings, route framework,
sending and accepting email, riding web and web and so forth (Goines, A., and
Mishnah, G. (2008). Because of numerous reasons now cellphones have gotten a
typical decision for the society alongside the business since it was at first designed
for the utilization of organizations. Toward the beginning cellphones were for
utilization of business because of less expense and more applications. Yet,
presently a days the pattern is changed and now we are in a society where from
many advanced mobile phone organizations are giving an assortment of
capacities and administrations on a little bit of thing. It is important for the
understudies to be mindful in the study halls and during the talks so consideration
is required at the point when everyone is chipping away at a specific undertaking
at a specific time Eldridge, M., and Thomson, N. (1984). Be that as it may,
numerous gadgets, for example, cellphones and PCs are looking at to divert us
and catch the fascination towards them both inside and outside the homeroom.
This is on the grounds that numerous understudies after their classwork or course
work answered to utilize cellphone, perusing, informing, shopping on the web and
taking pictures. The most well-known thing among the youthful age is the social
media. To use on their mobile phones. Geser, H. (2002). Issue Statement: The
point of the investigation is to check the use of the cellphones among the
adolescent and the society. Through the investigation we will perceive how much
individuals and the understudies are getting favorable circumstances of the
cellphones and how unnecessarily they are utilizing it and how it is influencing
their wellbeing. By the assistance of subjective examination, we will assemble the
data and will tell the advantages and disadvantages of the utilization of
cellphones on the understudies and its effect on our general public.

Problem Statement:
Cellphone usage and their statistical value is very high in the world especially in
Pakistan where younger generation is totally involved in cellphone with no other
healthy activity to do. Every individual use cellphone for gaining information,
data, realities, and so on. Among the audience or user, some have the thirst to get
intellectual and scholastic information. There is very limited empirical research on
the usage of cellphones and its effects in Pakistan. In this study we will try to
investigate cellphone usage among the students of the Foundation University
Rawalpindi Campus. Our key focus will be to explore the applications used by the
students and the effect of the cellphone usage on our society. This research will
tell us about the features of cellphones, usage as well as gratification by students.

Objectives:
 To find out the effect of cellphones on the human health.
 To know about the cognitive needs of audiences or users.
 To identify the emotions, pleasure and moods among the youth now a days of
using cellphones.
 To measure the awareness and how they reassure their status, gain credibility
and stabilize after use of cellphones and its harmful effects on younger people.
 To identify the escapism from the real world and to relieve from tension and
stress through cellphones.
Research Questions:
1. What are the advantages of cellphones in our daily life and education?
2. Do cellphones have any bad effects on our health?
3. How cellphones are changing our daily life styles and routines?
4. What are its impacts on students during studies in classrooms or lectures?
5. It is possible that a youth can live happy without having smartphones now a
days?

Literature Review:
Cell phone has become a brand name of the youth and mature age individuals
since it has involved them with its more up to date and most recent advances
(Skierkowski and Wood, 2011). We can see this plainly as the youth is so reliable
on this new touch screen innovation that works to quick like one touch they
would b be able to peruse applications or the can talk live through applications,
for example, Skype or WhatsApp. Cell phone had recently eventually changed the
way of life and their cooperation with its cutting edge innovation as they become
their social integrative need. As the cell phones are utilized universally they
additionally impact the individuals in different manners with the way things are
for working, learning correspondence because it has also become their personal
integrative need as we see it according to uses and gratification theory. It is
presently simpler to do our day by day schedule undertakings or works just by
one click as cell phones made our lives simpler by its performing multiple tasks
highlight. By its online highlights it makes it simpler to convey simpler and quicker
for its clients and to get assortment of data.

Impact of Smartphone on Education:

Instructing and learning of understudies in schools, colleges and universities
throughout the past timeframe has incorporated data and correspondence
innovation (ICT). As ICT is viewed as a concluding part to be adjusted in the
advancement of social climate (Rung et al., 2014). The most mainstream change
in term of ICT use can been viewed by the development of enslavement on
portable associated gadgets since they are restricted to day by day errands as well
as they can likewise be utilized for the instructive purposes (Koszalka and
Ntloedibe-Kuswani, 2010). Woodcock et al. (2012) expressed that numerous parts
of understudies' lives can be changed by expanding the utilization of cell phone so
they would have the option to use cell phones to build their insight in instruction.
Learning setting can additionally lead the understudies to get mindful of the use
of cell phones in the field of training and how much accommodating the cell
phones are, that where and at whatever point they can utilize it for their
assistance. This thing discloses to us that how supportive the innovation is in our
schooling or scholarly offices. Froese et al. (2012) directed a self-report study to
explore understudies' cell phone action in classes and the likely impact of the
exercises on understudies learning execution. Therefore, it shows us that
understudies are occupied by the cellphones and they accept that there talks and
classes are diverted by messaging or perusing applications.

Impact of Smartphone on Psychological Health:

Some mental or behavioral problems may start to occur if you use excessive
problematic smartphones. Nowadays youth have made their cellphones
everything and they think they cannot live without them because they are now
too much attached with it. Due to a lot of school work and other daily tensions
students have now started to play games, start browsing on Internet and chatting
with each other to release their tensions (Kim, 2013). In the past students use to
surf or browse on computer but now a days it has become easier for them to surf
or browse through using cellphones. Study by Kibona and Mgaya (2015) tells us
that most of the students use smartphone for social activities (65%) more than
their education activities (20%). And students also admitted that they use that
65% for surfing social apps such as Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and twitter
etc. while doing their homework or assignments. Moreover 48% of the students
spend their 5 to 7 hours of the day using their smartphones therefore 85%
students are totally addicted to their smartphones. As we see in Uses and
Gratification sense than Individuals may have different strains in life which they
would prefer not to confront, so take help of cellphone or social media to escape
from it.

Impact of Smartphone on Social Interaction:

In case we see with comparing uses and gratification theory cellphones impact on
social integrative needs. New Technologies are coming and they are now
matching the human beings need that is why communication is also playing a vital
role. This is the reason due to which communication is becoming easier with the
advancement of the technology and it is changing the style of communication
between each other. The unique and multiple application features of
smartphones make it different from other communication and electronic devices.
Social engagement between each other is limited by threatening its unique
applications with limiting the face to face interactions with each other and by
developing more chatrooms. Due to lack of real life social interactions between
individuals it may add to relationship issues and it may interfere in their academic
work. (Kuss & Griffiths, 2011). People and young generation are now investing
their most of time in chatting or making live calls with each other rather than
meeting with their friend and family members. This is because of smartphones
because society is moving into the smartphone world. It is also making danger of
relationship between the individuals, although applications of cellphones increase
the ability to interact with social mates freely and easily. There is lack of oral
communication we can see now a days but individuals are now able to create the
group of their friends and communicate through social platforms. This study is
based to conduct and investigate the relationship between the qualities of in
social person interaction with the existence of cellphone or other electronic
devices shows that conversations without cellphones were naturally exceptional
as compared to the interaction with the presence of cellphone communication
technologies (Misra et al., 2014).

Methodology:
The goal of the research was to present the usage of cellphones among our
society and the students who use too much for other things instead of academic
purposes. So in-depth perspectives of experiences with implementing mobile
computing devices was done to get the results of the study. Methodology refers
to the means and logical procedure through which a research plans or approach is
implemented. Survey research method was adopted to find out that how
respondents use the cellphones for their academic use and how the society is
using cellphones and to explore the benefits as seeking its negative effects too.
The Basic objective of this study was to find out that whether uses and
gratification model is appropriate. Keeping in view the nature of the study, survey
method was considered to be an apt method for collecting information and data
analyzing, which was presented among those people who use too much cellphone
and it is effecting their health