{"id":2110,"date":"2015-08-07T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:05","slug":"are-you-addicted-to-your-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/08\/07\/are-you-addicted-to-your-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you addicted to your smartphone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">According to the latest <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/consumers.ofcom.org.uk\/news\/uk-now-a-smartphone-society\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Ofcom communications market report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> more people use smartphones than laptops.\u00a0 33% regard it as their most used device for going online rather than a laptop.\u00a0 Also popular are selfies with one in ten taking at least one a week.\u00a0 Get the full facts from the Ofcom report which can be downloaded from the website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">According to a recent <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/04\/01\/6-facts-about-americans-and-their-smartphones\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Pew report 46% of Americans answering could not live without their smartphone<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> .\u00a0 Find out more facts about current social usage and trace trends from 2011 onwards on their website. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/oxis.oii.ox.ac.uk\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Oxford Internet surveys<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> also give insight into the way in which mobile technology is changing social life in Britain today.\u00a0 See for instance this <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/oxis.oii.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/OxIS-2013.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">2013 report on the cultures of the Internet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> to see who goes online and what they do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest Ofcom communications market report more people use smartphones than laptops.\u00a0 33% regard it as their most used device for going online rather than a laptop.\u00a0 Also popular are selfies with one in ten taking at least one a week.\u00a0 Get the full facts from the Ofcom report which can be downloaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[61,71,86,93],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","category-sociology","tag-internet","tag-new-media","tag-telephones","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}