final paper contd. 2 articles 3/22/09

Article on Adolescent Use of Mobile Phones for Calling and for Sending Text Messages After Lights Out:
By Jan Van Bulck.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1978406&blobtype=pdf
This article is about the study done on young adolescents for a year to conclude how mobile phones used at night time when lights are out for making phone calls and for sending or receiving text messages and if this is causing greater level of tiredness in kids.
The key point is the use of cell phones has become such an essential part among kids to use as a modern means of interpersonal and mass communication. Young children are missing the required amount of sleep at night time, while talking and sending or receiving the text messages on cell phone. As stated in the article " Children's bedrooms are connected to global networks through internet access and mobile phones".Kids are being constantly disturbed by so called by the writer "bombing" where different numbers of rings convey different messages, it is becoming a pass time or we can say the waste of time for the kids and on top of that the kids are exposed to biological effects of emissions.As stated in the article "The electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones, for instance, may have an effect on the sleep electroencephalogram,and evening exposure to mobile phone emissions may affect melatonin production."
In conclusion cell phone use in adolescents is getting very common, the media convergence of cell phones into radio, television, video games, photography and MP3 technologies may increase the use of cell phones at night time, which can relate to greater level of tiredness in adolescents.The article is stating that "The American Academy of Pediatrics has suggested that children's bedrooms ought to be “electronic media-free” rooms."

Article # 2:
Kids and Cell Phones: A Crosswalk Hazard?
From Common Sense Media.http://www.commonsensemedia.org/node/624990
Article is emphasizing on parents to teach their kids not to talk on cell phones while they are on the road. It is more likely the kids can run into traffic accidents while talking or text messaging on the cell phone.
For my thesis statement, cell phones can be very dangerous on the road, kids can be so engrossed while they are talking on the phone they forget to look around for the traffic or even the child can be in danger of being mugged or someone can steal their cell phone.