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Fonoholizm – zagrożenie współczesnej młodzieży
Phonoholism – the threat of modern youth

Author(s): Marcin Kiper
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Sociology, Educational Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Management and complex organizations, Health and medicine and law, Human Ecology, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: mobile phone; phonoholism; infoholic dependence; digital media; addiction

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the most important facts about teenagers’ addiction to mobile phones on the basis of chosen subject literature. The article also presents and describes the research data. The aim of the research was the attempt to describe the chosen aspects of the phenomenon that is the use of mobile phones by teenagers. The research was carried out from May 9 to May 13, 2022 on a group of 80 students. All of the students were from a secondary school. For the purposes of the research, the diagnostic survey method was used and the tool was an original questionnaire. In the light of the obtained results, today’s youth use mobile phones in an irresponsible way and they are unaware of threat arising from abusing the mobile phones. Following the results obtained from the research, introducing the media literacy in schools should be conceptualized.

  • Issue Year: 58/2022
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 121 - 131
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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