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Mobile Phone and Development: Synthesis on New Misuse Perspective

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The chapter takes a critical look at the ways mobile phone misuse has been handled in the discipline. It raises the awareness that some mobile phone misuses exist that have not been looked into because they are difficult to be defined, and hence detected. It raises awareness on the mobile phone misuse that mobile users indulge in that are detrimental to them, despite the fact that they may be involved in this misuse knowingly or unknowingly. Two theoretical frameworks were used to surface the conceptual framework that could enhance future scholarly work. Conclusion was reached that it has become critical for mobile phone misuses users suffer from due to their own use to be critically interrogated. It was assumed that such study will allow researchers to come up with new methods and contents for socializing mobile phone users into how to use their mobile phones profitably for developmental reasons.

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Abbreviations

MDGs:

Millennium development goals

ICTs:

Information and communication technologies

HIV/AIDS:

Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

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Utulu, S.C.A. (2014). Mobile Phone and Development: Synthesis on New Misuse Perspective. In: Kaur, H., Tao, X. (eds) ICTs and the Millennium Development Goals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7439-6_7

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