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Affiliations, Emotion and the Mobile Phone

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Over half of the world’s population is expected to be using mobile phones by 2009 and many have become attached to and even dependent on this small electronic communications device. Drawing on seven years of research into the affective aspects of mobile phone usage this chapter will examine ways that people in the UK have incorporated mobile phones into their lives. It will explore what they use it for, their affiliations and their emotional attachment to the mobile phone and how it appears to have gained such an extraordinary role in maintaining close relationships with family and friends.

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    Jane Vincent

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  1. Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, and IIASS, Via G. Pellegrino 19, 84019, Vietri sul Mare, (SA), Italy

    Anna Esposito

  2. Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Chaberská 57, 182 52, Prague 8, Czech Republic

    Robert Vích

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Vincent, J. (2009). Affiliations, Emotion and the Mobile Phone. In: Esposito, A., Vích, R. (eds) Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5641. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03320-9_4

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