A survey of the mutual effects of mobile phone usage on the citizenship culture in developing countries

Authors

  • Seyed Maziar Alavi Entrepreneurship Department, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin
  • Seyed Hossein Hosseini Model-based Management Systems Institute (SAMAM), Tehran
  • Ali Hosseini Department of Management, Science and Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran
  • Mohamad Samaei Department of Industrial Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21831/jss.v18i2.45051

Keywords:

Citizenship Culture, Mobile Phone, Cultural Enhancement, Citizenship Culture Promotion

Abstract

Information and Communication Technologies have made great changes to the lifestyle of human beings. Mobile phones, with their rapid growth in different parts of the world, essential parts of our lives. Mobile phone has helped to overcome location barriers and have had great impacts on the people's lives, especially in urban areas. In developing countries, mobile phone has grown rapidly in the recent decade and has had great impacts on communications and other aspects of social life. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the mobile phone technology push on the culture of citizens, in developing countries. Running a survey-type research, a sample of people in Tehran, the capital city of Iran, have been asked to fill a questionnaire; then, after gathering and cleansing and analysing the data, some recommendations are added that could be used in urban policy making in the various developing countries

Author Biography

Seyed Hossein Hosseini, Model-based Management Systems Institute (SAMAM), Tehran

SeyedHossein Hosseini is now a research fellow at the Brain and Mind Centre (BMC), The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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2022-10-31

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Vol. 18 No. 2 (2022): Journal of Social Studies (JSS)

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