Public Use of Mobile Media on College Campuses

Mobile media users are found to make public spaces their own private territories. They use mobile media to bridge their personal relationships and isolate the unwanted interactions or sounds in the public. A triangulation research method is used to understand how mobile media has been used in public between 2005 and 2009 on American college campuses. Results show that mobile media users change public spaces into their private spaces by the use of their mobile media. The heavier mobile media dependency students have, the more uses their mobile media in public space. This is more true for females than males in this study.