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Smart phones, dumb behaviour? We now ‘ignore friends and family’ in favour of our devices – The Irish Times
The phone is now ‘where we live’, according to an international study that includes Ireland
Smartphone users have become human snails carrying our homes in our pockets, with a tendency to ignore friends and family in favour of their device, according to a landmark study.
A team of anthropologists who spent more than a year documenting smartphone use in nine countries around the world, from Ireland to Cameroon, have found that, far from regarding them as trivial toys, people feel the same way about their devices as they do about their homes.
The smartphone is no longer just a device that…
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