Question and Answer: Exploring Mobile Phone's Impact and Development

This assignment provides answers to questions regarding the developmental aspects of mobile phones, including their role in bridging the digital divide and as income-generating products. It discusses the weaponization of mobile phones during the Arab Spring and instances of ‘retraditionalizing’ through religious and cultural impacts. The assignment also addresses the social annoyances associated with mobile phones, the concept of privacy in public, and the significance people attach to SIM cards. Furthermore, it identifies the four mutations of the cell phone as science, technology, culture, and history, and outlines a new research agenda focused on building research capacity in Africa. The answers cover true/false statements and sentence completions, providing a comprehensive overview of the mobile phone's multifaceted impact on society and culture. Desklib offers a wealth of similar solved assignments and study resources for students.

Running head: QUESTION AND ANSWER
QUESTION AND ANSWER
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1QUESTION AND ANSWER
Answer 1:
Two of the developmental aspects of the mobile phones mentioned in the text are:
1. Mobile phones as an income-generating product via sale of ts accessories
2. Mobile phones as a bridging the digital divide that exists between rich and the poor.
Answer 2:
In Arab Africa, the Arab Spring, the weaponisation of mobile phone is illustrated.
Answer 3:
The two instances in which the mobile phone can be branded as a ‘retraditionalizing’ are:
i) The way it has contributed in collecting specialized publics that resonates with religious
innuendo and it’s potential.
ii) The way it has changed the thumb culture in Africa.
Answer 4.
Mobile phones are viewed annoying social phenomenon for it is a device that requires a
new etiquette in order to tame its various infractions of peace, decency and public order. It
creates distraction and loss of mental peace by ‘anywhere anytime economy’ through beep and
ringtones and creating cacophony.
Answer 5:
The sentence ‘The sudden eruption of the private in the public’ means the diplomacy and
the politics that is involved around the concept of wanting to speak in public yet in a private way.
Also, the privacy that is involved while one is speaking in public.

2QUESTION AND ANSWER
Answer 6:
The noun that is used to mean that ‘the cell phone tests the strength and depth of a relationship is
‘dipstick’.
Answer 7:
Since cell phones has an inner life, there is an importance associated with it. Although sim cards
are cheap, it is the attached life or lived associated with it. People invest staggering value with
their sim card. Therefore, one would fight for sim card more than life.
Answer 8:
The four mutation of the cell phone mentioned in this paragraph are:
1. A science
2. A technology
3. A culture
4. A history,
Answer 9:
The new research agenda is expected to:
Endorse research capacity building on an urgent basis in the African academy involving subjects
that needs retooling of practice as well as theory.
It will help in building essential productive research networks with potential scholars based on
African continent with a global significance.
Highlight Africa’s contribution to change thoughts and practices around technological issues, its
production, mobilities and consumptions.

3QUESTION AND ANSWER
Answer 10:
a) True
b) True
c) False
d) True
c) False
Answer 11:
a) weaponisation of mobile
b) Capability of mobile phone
c) Mobile phone
d) An individual with mobile phone
e) Its represents the thing that is created
Answer 12:
a) For example
b) Therefore
c) Still
d) And or along with
e) At the same time
Answer 13:
a) Cell phones are doing subversion through it technological capability.
b) Few could not understand the buzzword ‘alternative’ and misused it.
c) A cell phone is so powerful akin AK-47 that it could scare the large mass.

4QUESTION AND ANSWER
d) When everyone’s cell phone rang in the hall, it created a cacophony.
e) Loss of identity through the usage of cell phone can cause trauma.