Mobile Media and Mobile Privatization

Thesis statement

The citizen band radio and smartphones play almost similar activities in that they all have the role of facilitating communication. However, there is a difference between the smartphones and the central band radio. Despite there being a difference between the smartphones and these primary band radio, there still exists some similarities between them. Therefore, in this paper, there is an examination of both the differences and similarities of smartphones and the central band radio through the use of mobile privatization and flow notions.

Introduction

In the majority of the countries, the citizens band radio refers to the system of radio communication via short distances between the selections of forty channels within the twenty-seven megahertz band. The citizens band radio differs from the other allocations of personal radio services like UHF CB and also the Amateur Radio service. In most of the countries, the Citizens band radio operations do not need the license and may be applied in the businesses and personal communications. This Citizens band radio originated from the United States like one of the numerous individual radio services that were regulated by Federal Communications Commission. With the emergence of the era of smartphones, there existed both differences and similarities of these smartphones with this band radio all of which were applied in the individual communications as well as businesses. One of the differences between the citizens band radio and smartphones is that an individual may use or receive a citizens band radio while driving but may not or is not authoritatively required to use or obtain a phone while driving. The difference falls under the notion of flow. The possible dangers associated with texting and dialing while driving are obvious since these are activities that will take the eyes of drivers off or outside the road for a period of greater than one second. For example, "an individual will be violating the traffic rules to drive while texting." Since this activity of using the smartphone while driving will distract the driver, various laws are put forward to limit the drivers from using the smartphones while driving. However, with the case of citizens band radio, the driver may speak through the speakerphone or Bluetooth since this is deemed not to cause any kind of distraction to the driver while driving or using a motor vehicle. The other difference is that the citizens band radio is only restricted to the individuals that have an excellent grip regarding the subjects of radio operators. In this case, there is the notion of mobile privatization since only those that have a good grip on its operations are able to operate it efficiently. On the other hand, the smartphones are not restricted to any individuals especially if a person has a little knowledge of the smartphones. In most of the cases, an individual that has little knowledge on the smartphones may acquire the basic knowledge of using them and may utilize them efficiently after gaining this knowledge. However, in the case of Citizens band radio, the individuals are only restricted to its use whenever they have some knowledge of its operations. However, despite the existence of the difference between smartphones and citizens band radio basing on the notions of flow and mobile privatization, there still exists some similarities between them. One of the similarities is that they are used anywhere and at any time and this brings about the notion of flow. With the existence of the citizens band radio and the smartphones, a person may use them freely while at home and also away from home or point of location. An individual may walk away from the home o point of operation of these materials but still be at a freedom of communicating from anywhere and in any time. With the existence of smartphones and Citizens band radio, individuals may make personal and business communication while within the business premises or away from those premises. The other similarity between the two devices is that both smartphones and the Citizens Band radios are simplex devices and this brings about the flow notion. The implication is that two persons communicating through the use of either smartphones or citizens band radio both communicate using a similar frequency. Therefore, it is only a single individual who may speak at a particular time and this individual may either be the speaker or a respondent. For example, "two or more persons may not speak at the same time since one has to wait for the other to speak and then respond or vice versa." Regarding the mobile privatization, both the smartphones and citizens band radio are used for communicating the essential issues of business and making other personal communications. They both act as own gadgets and are used for the purpose of satisfying the individual requirements of disclosure and passing of confidential and relevant information. In conclusion, the era of smartphones and citizens band radio brought about an ease of communication by fastening the process of delivering information from one location to the other. However, their introduction brought about increased chances of providing false information and increased opportunities for telling false by the communicating parties.

References

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