31 Smartphones and Cellular Data
Ashton Krol
31.1 Introduction
Keywords:
- Cellular Data- the internet connectivity provided by your mobile network provider. While your phone will automatically switch to Wi-Fi if a network is available, you can manually control your mobile data use by enabling and disabling it.
- Facetime- a proprietary videotelephony product developed by Apple Inc.
- Cloud- on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user.
- Social Media- websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, students will be able to:
- Understand the cultural and societal impact that iPhones have had on generation Z.
- Describe the differences that smartphones are having on generation Z compared to previous generations.
- Identify the pros and cons of generation Z being raised on the backbone of iPhones and their reliability towards them.
Generation Z may not be the only generation that uses smartphone technology in their day-to-day life; however, they are the first generation to be brought up and raised in a time period in which the iPhone emerged. Generation Z was born into the world with this type of technology and now we are starting to see the effects of this in real-time. Smartphones can offer extremely beneficial uses in today’s society, however, they can quickly turn into a problem for most teens apart of generation Z.
31.2 Cellular Data and Instant Internet Access Anywhere
Key Takeaway
31.2.1 Section 1
Being able to access Google or any other popular search engine to figure out any information on any topic you can possibly imagine has changed the world as we know it. This shortens the time to learn information and gain access to it much quicker and more efficiently. Before the internet, you had to go to the library and access information using an encyclopedia which would be super time-consuming. The invention of the internet has done away with all of this and all you would have to do is access the computer somewhere and look up whatever you may want. However, as technology advances, you can now access the internet anywhere in the world with the invention of the iPhone and its cellular data technologies.
31.2.2 Section 2
Cellular Data has truly made internet access and access to information at any given moment and time, completely possible. Many generations that exist today did not have this type of technology when they were being raised and growing up. For generation Z however, it is a different story. If any teenager has an iPhone, they can search for anything they want at any given time. This is a double-edged sword, however. On one hand, it can be used to help gain knowledge and help students and young people get a better understanding of whatever topic that might be. People can look up information at any given moment at any place on the