Authors : Joy I. Anyanwu, Victoria Ogwa Adikwu, Catherine O. Ogwuche, Ifeoma Keziah Ekma and Bernedeth N. Ezegbe
Abstract: The study investigated technological advancement in media and implications of mobile phone usage among secondary school students in Nsukka local government area of Enugu State. The research design used for the study was descriptive survey. Two research questions and one null hypothesis formulated guided the study. The subjects for the study comprised 3569 senior secondary school students in Nsukka local government area. A simple random sampling was used to select 357 students representing 10% of the population. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire designed by the researchers and face validated by three experts in Faculty of Education University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Mean scores, standard deviation and student t-test were used for data analysis. Result showed that psychological implications of mobile phone usage by students include being anxious and disturbed anytime their mobile phone battery is flat, addiction to their mobile phone and snobbish attitude towards people, experiences sleep disorder, lack of concentration due to preoccupation with their mobile phone. The social implications include, watching nude pictures and videos, learning violent behaviour on the internet, less attention to peers as a result of concentration on making new friends on social networks like Facebook and 2go among others, low social and moral values and exposure to all forms of deviant behaviours through the internet. The result also revealed that no significant difference existed between psychological and social implications in terms of mobile phone usage by students. The implications of these findings were highlighted and some recommendations made.
Joy I. Anyanwu, Victoria Ogwa Adikwu, Catherine O. Ogwuche, Ifeoma Keziah Ekma and Bernedeth N. Ezegbe, 2019. Technological Advancement in the Media and Mobile Phone Usage among Secondary School Students in Enugu State, Nigeria. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 14: 5304-5308.