Social norms and how we use mobiles

I've been looking more at how social networks affect mobile phone usage recently. Phones make new behaviors possible and perturb existing social norms when used. People actively form opinions about use and regulate it amongst themselves and others. It is an extremely complex relationship which is hard to track or articulate. It often results in people not being able to predict their own usage or determine what opinions they will have about others' use in advance. Several papers that show examples of norm development surrounding use of mobile technologies are below.

One of my favorites which explicitly shows the contrast in opinions before and after extended use is:
Palen, L., Salzman, M., & Youngs, E. (2000). Going Wireless: Behavior & Practice of New Mobile Phone Users. Paper presented at the CSCW, Philadelphia, PA.
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And through that paper I came upon an older paper that examines inappropriate use and has an amusing title.

Ling 1997. “‘One can talk about common manners!’: the use of mobile telephones in inappropriate situations.”
In Themes in mobile telephony Final Report of the COST 248 Home and Work group. Haddon,
L (ed). 1997.
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