Smartphones

Smartphones

Smartphones

Smartphones

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Overview

This essential volume discusses smartphone ownership including the benefits and privacy risks. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Readers are exposed to many sides of a debate, which promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking. Across four chapters, essays debate the benefits of smartphones, who really owns and uses them, whether they have privacy risks, and what the future may bring. Essay sources include Debra Littlejohn Shinder, Brian X. Chen, Jamilah King, Yukari Iwatani Kane, and The Economist.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780737763423
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Publication date: 04/24/2013
Series: Opposing Viewpoints Series
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 15 - 17 Years

Table of Contents

Why Consider Opposing Viewpoints? 11

Introduction 14

Chapter 1 What Are the Benefits of Smartphones?

Chapter Preface 19

1 Smartphones Are Transforming Daily Life Richard Fisher 21

2 Smartphones Are Becoming Too Complex Debra Littlejohn Shinder 31

3 Help! My Smartphone Is Making Me Dumb-or Maybe Not Brian X. Chen 37

4 Smartphones Are a Distraction Joe Golton 45

5 Smartphones Will Benefit Classroom Learning Elliot Soloway David Nagel 50

6 Smartphones Do Not Benefit Classroom Learning: Maclean's 58

Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography 63

Chapter 2 Who Owns and Uses Smartphones?

Chapter Preface 65

1 Smartphone Ownership Is Growing Aaron Smith 67

2 Some People Reject Smartphone Ownership Sue Shellenbarger 72

3 The Disadvantaged and Minorities Use Smartphones for Internet Access Gerry Smith 77

4 Smartphones Do Not Improve Internet Access for the Disadvantaged and Minorities Jamilah King 86

5 Smartphones Give Rural Africans Access to the Greater Economy: The Economist 100

Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography 106

Chapter 3 Do Smartphones Have Privacy Risks?

Chapter Preface 108

1 Smartphones Have Privacy Risks Timothy B. Lee 110

2 Smartphone Apps Can Breach Privacy Scott Thurm Yukari Iwatani Kane 120

3 10 Steps to Smartphone Privacy Eric Zeman 131

4 Lost Smartphones Pose Privacy and Security Risks Scott Wright 136

5 Employees May Not Have an Expectation of Privacy on Company Smartphones William K. Pao L. David Russell J.D. Weiss 147

Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography 153

Chapter 4 What Is the Future of Smartphones?

Chapter Preface 155

1 Smartphones Will Become Obsolete Barbara Hudson 157

2 Smartphones Will Replace the Personal Computer Charles Arthur 163

3 Mobile Banking on Smartphones Will Replace Wallets Jameson Berkow 171

4 The Format for Mobile Banking on Smartphones Is Uncertain David W. Schropfer 177

Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography 183

For Further Discussion 184

Tin Organizations to Contact 186

Bibliography of Books 190

Index 194

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