Research Note: A Need or a Status Symbol?

By Y. Özcan, Abdullah Koçak. 2003

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Me, my mobile, and I : the role of self- and prototypical identity influences in the prediction of mobile phone behavior (2007, methodology): “Most previous research has been grounded within a sociological (e.g., Carroll, Howard, Peck, & Murphy, 2002; Ling, 2000; Taylor & Harper, 2003) or communication theory framework (e.g., Leung & Wei, 2000; Ozcan & Kocak, 2003) and has focused primarily on the youth market.”
"Express yourself" / "Stay together": Tensions surrounding mobile communication in the middle-class Indian family (2006, background): “Echoing Fernandes, others have noted how, for users in the developing world, the mobile is a powerful symbol of macro-level trends in globalization and consumer consumption (Donner, 2004; “Express yourself” / “Stay together” 4 4 Özcan & Koçak, 2003; Varbanov, 2002; Wei & Kolko, 2005).”
Using a multi-criteria decision making approach to evaluate mobile phone alternatives (2007, background): “This number was 80,000 in 1994 and reached 8 million in 2000 [5].”
A model of the relationship between psychological characteristics, mobile phone addiction and use of mobile phones by Taiwanese university female students (2012, background): “…used measures to investigate the behavior of mobile phone mainly assess the number of calls made and text messages sent (Billieux et al., 2007; Ozcan & Kocak, 2003; Walsh & White, 2006, 2007; Walsh et al., 2011), however, it is clear that these features do not themselves signal mobile phone…”
Motivations for using the mobile phone for mass communications and entertainment (2008, methodology): “…(Charney and Greenberg, 2002; Eighmey and McCord, 1998; Kuehn, 1994; Papacharissi and Rubin, 2000; Tewksbury and Althaus, 2000), while the motivations for mobile phone use include newer dimensions of status symbol, mobility, and immediate accessibility (Leung and Wei, 2000; Ozcan and Kocak, 2003).”