Volume : 2, Issue : 10, OCT 2016

COLLEGE STUDENT’S OPINIONS ABOUT MOBILE PHONE USAGE

Kusum Sajwan Negi, Sunita Godiyal

Abstract

Mobile phone plays an essential role in communications throughout the world. The technological revolution that many Indian have experienced has significantly changed the way humans interact and communicate with one another. The author studied field observations to examine HNBGU-SRT Campus student?s behavior while walking around campus, along with a Questionnaire survey. Findings suggest that students seem to be usage to their Mobile phones, with 64 percent of students observed on campus interacting with their device one way or another. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample of 100 students.

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