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CHILDREN AND MOBILE PHONES
As mobile phones have become popular amongst children and teenagers, a surprising affect on family relationships has emerged. Mobile phones seem to offer parents piece of mind as they feel their parental authority has been extended over time and space: they allow their children more freedom to travel further from home and to stay out later at night. It aids parent-child negotiation and in this way extends the democratisation of the family.
Laurie Taylor talks to Dr , Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Glamorgan, about his recent study Space invader: the negotiation of teenage boundaries through the mobile phone . The paper investigates these issues but finds that parental authority and piece of mind can in fact be illusionary.
WITNESS TO AIDS
Mr Justice Edwin Cameron, one of South Africa's most prominent citizens, knew he had AIDS when he could no longer climb the stairs from the judges' common room in the High Court to his chambers two floors above. But it took a long and painful journey before he could come to terms with living with his illness because of the stigma and discrimination surrounding it.
Laurie Taylor speaks toÌý about his experiences and finds out how stigma and discrimination are still intractable issues intimately bound up with the pandemic and finds out why there is still the tragedy of AIDS denial in South Africa.
Additional information:
Space invader: the negotiation of teenage boundaries through the mobile phone
Dr Stephen Williams
The Sociological Review
Volume 53 - no.2 - May 2005
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing for Keele University
ISSN 0038 0261
Edwin Cameron
Justice in the Supreme Court of Appeal, South African, a human rights lawyer and an AIDS campaigner
Witness to Aids
Edwin Cameron
Publisher: IB Taurus
ISBN: 1845111192
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