Mobile phone researcher Michael Bull describes “habitual everyday notions of what it might mean to ‘inhabit’ certain spaces such as the automobile, the street, the shopping arcade or indeed the living room” (p.171), thereby linking habit to habitat, ie space.

The pedestrian is the ordinary, which is to say the habitual, the taken-for-granted, as well as the mobile. The book on mobile phone usage in Japan by Mizuko Ito et al captures the trend towards ubiquity well, even in its title: Personal, Portable, Pedestrian. It’s a habit from which they are extricated only by a conscious exercise of will.Īcademic researchers have long scrutinized the social changes brought about by ubiquitous mobile media. These are practices they fall into without thinking. So people now habitually use their smartphones in many contexts. Walking quickly in the rain, cleaning your teeth, rubbing your eyes in the morning and eating with a knife and fork are habits. Instead of “addictions” the adoption of smartphones into everyday use could be discussed as the acquisition of new communicative habits or new media practices. If this is addiction then let’s embrace it. You can also be addicted to learning, charitable causes, healthy eating and exercise. “Addiction” is an example of the kind of streetwise coloquial overstatement to which any of us could subscribe happily. It seems people use their phones in the street, the bathroom, in bed first thing in the morning, and in the midst of social gatherings.Īddiction is a powerfully loaded concept with shameful connotations. When asked how addicted they are to their mobiles phones, 37% of adult smartphone users admitted high levels of ‘addiction’ to their phone, with this rising to 60% of teen smartphone users (p.4). The adoption of fully-featured mobile phones (Blackberry, iPhone, Android) has rocketed in the past 12 months.

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