Evaluation Of Results

The questionnaire results show that mobile phones have diffused into the culture of most age ranges with 96.6% of volunteers owning a mobile phone, the percentage of those volunteers in each age range can be seen from the results section.

The questionnaire agrees to a large extent with Aykac 2008 that mobile phones are viewed as having a negative impact on children in the education system, 83% of volunteers having this view, and disagrees with Castells theory that mobile phones and the text language sparks creativity. However the survey shows that the abbreviated text language has had a huge impact on society with 60% of volunteers using such a language, this is almost double that of non users of the text language.

The questionnaire agrees with the findings of Ofcom in that although 83.3% of volunteers were aware of the health issues only 16.7% were inclined to change the way they used their mobile phone, suggesting that there is not enough evidence to prove mobile phones are actually bad for your health. Mobile phone masts themselves were only a cause for concern for one third of the volunteers suggesting evidence contrary to the findings of Hale, Poulter and Whiteside that children in schools were at risk from the harmful effects of radiation from phone masts.

When investigating the uses of mobile phones it can be seen that only 7% of volunteers use their phone for work contrary to the theory of Chelsey that mobile phones have encouraged the spill over of work and home life. The survey shows that the primary use of mobile phones is for social purposes with 60%, family coming in second with 30%.