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Sharing is caring 鈥� or is it? Smartphone boom prompts healthcare questions

9I制作厂免费 researchers to team up with Belgian and UdeM colleagues to explore ethical and legal issues associated with data sharing via mobile apps

Modern life, it seems, is marked by an unprecedented propensity to dramatic and rapid change. This tendency is perhaps best symbolized by the ubiquitous smartphone. What seemed like just some cool technology a few years ago has quickly become an absolutely essential tool for everyday living. Worldwide, almost 4 billion people have at least one such device. In Canada, the rate of smartphone ownership is 88%, as of 2018.

Classified as: healthcare, Smartphone
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Published on: 26 May 2021

We鈥檙e not addicted to smartphones, we鈥檙e addicted to social interaction

We all know people who, seemingly incapable of living without the bright screen of their phone for more than a few minutes, are constantly texting and checking out what friends are up to on social media.

These are examples of what many consider to be the antisocial behaviour brought on by smartphone addiction, a phenomenon that has garnered media attention in the past few months and led聽 investors and consumers to demand that tech giants address this problem.

But what if we were looking at things the wrong way? Could smartphone addiction be hyper-social, not anti-social?

Classified as: Smartphone, addiction, Samuel Veissi猫re, social interaction, society and culture
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Published on: 6 Feb 2018
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