Mobile privatization

The connection creates a sense of familiarity, resulting in the individual's identity becoming attached to their mobile service provider.

His main perspective was that home, for Williams, is a shrunken social space where isolated individuals gain vicariously increased mobility.

In 2005, Kenichi Fujimoto, Professor of Informatics and Mediology at Mukogawa Women's University, came up with a theory called "Nagara Mobilism".

It means that when individuals utilize mobile technology, their social networks expand while making themselves much closer to the local community.

Hans Geser, a professor at the University of Zürich, has isolated four main features of mobile technology that weaken societal development: