One note from this excellent presentation at the New Yorker 2012 conference: mobile phones used to prevent harassment or attack. Nokia's Younghee Jung describes women interacting with their phones - or just pretending to - in order to look less vulnerable to potential threats.
Neat. I remember doing this in college. There are some arguments that chatting on the phone may make you less aware of your surroundings but I think that as in other cell phone-related discussion, context and type of conversation matters.
Posted by: Ladi | May 28, 2007 at 11:28