Development of Idea

After meeting with my supervisor Miriam for the first time last week, I took her comments on board and have now decided that I will focus my whole project on to smartphones, as whilst researching the topic of addiction to technology and changes in human behaviour due to technology, I was finding most informative and interesting research to be about smartphones.

In order to develop my idea and make it more specific I have looked at particular relevant issues in our society to base my project around. These ideas include:

- How are smartphones damaging and having a negative impact on the younger generation? Mainly children and teenagers.

- How smartphones affect the social society and how they impact and transform social aspects of modern society / how and why they are making us anti-social.

- The effects of smartphones in particular on human's behaviour - what changes users make due to using a smartphone and how it is affecting people.

- Understanding the positive and negative aspects of smartphones on society, and comparing both of these, ending up with whether they are more positive on users or more negative.

These 4 points all relate to smartphones - all of which I believe could be an interesting case study and a project to work with because they are specific to just the one type of advanced technology and it is a very current topic. I have made each point more specific to one issue and not so vague.