Literature Review

Hope this is somewhere along the right lines...

Ling 2004 states that safety and security are amoung the basic reasons to own a mobile phone. He writes that the mobile phone has evolved into a general sense that they provide us with security. He also writes that they have proved their usefulness in emergency situations as a way of calling for help, and uses examples when two persons who were trapped on on a Swiss mountain sent a text message to friends back London who then raised the alarm to rescue. However Ling also looks at the aspect that mobile phones can actually reduce our safety such as in car accidents and in a study carried out by Redelmeier and Tibshirani in 1997, they looked at the data from 742 accidents with no personal injury in 1994 to 1995 and 24% of people had used a mobile phone in the 10 minutes prior to the accident, and completing the circle 40% of the participants then called the emergency services via their mobile telephone. Devitt 2008 also argues that mobile phones create more of a danger to children and teenagers by providing them with a false sense of safety and security. This entices children and teeagers into taking more risks that they wouldn't have without a mobile phone such as allowing staying out later or splitting up with friends. Some young people do see this issue themselves and are concerned about thefts or muggings.

References
Ling, R. 2004 "The Mobile Connection The Cell Phone's Impact On Society" USA. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Devitt, R. 2008 "The Role Of Mobile Phones In Family Communication" United Kingdom. *

* This is a journal from the library website, have I included enough information?