Student Smartphone Use Doubles; Instant Messaging Loses Favor - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Student Smartphone Use Doubles; Instant Messaging Loses Favor - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Student Smartphone Use Doubles; Instant Messaging Loses FavorBy Kelly Truong
Smartphone use among college students has almost doubled since early last year, a study by a researcher at Ball State University found.
The study confirms what has become common knowledge: cellphones are almost ubiquitous on college campuses, with 99.8 percent of students owning one or more. But in the national survey of about 500 students—which has been conducted twice a year since 2005—new details emerged on the kind of phones they own and how they use them.
