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Assignment I

Choosing a research topic

Name: Elzahraa Magdi Hassan

ID: 201310084

FES 160 Research Methods

Summer 1 (2016)

Assignment (1)

1. General research topic: Cell phones

1. Narrow topic: Cell phones: How have they changed us socially?

1. Reason of interest:  

• The researcher has personal experience of how the cell phones have effects on the researcher’s social life with her friends and family.

1. Significance of  the topic:

• There is many studies show that the cell phones have impacted the society, the researcher wants to determine the effects.
• This problem is wide spread among the world and it improves along different generations so we have to aware the next generations.
• The research is discussing a very important problem that we have to be attention to its consequences on us now and later on.  

1. Objectives of the topic:

• To remind the people of the importance of the well interaction socially.
• To reinforcement the social relations between the family.
• To help the people and the society to recognize the effects of the cell phones.

6-   References:

• Part III: The Impact of Mobile Phones on People’s lives. (2012). Retrieved June 04, 2016, Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/2012/11/30/part-iii-the-impact-of-mobile-phones-on-peoples-lives/

• Ling, R. S. (2004). The mobile connection: The cell phone's impact on society (E book)

• Sarwar M., Soomro T.  (2013). Impact of smartphones on society, European Journal of Scientific Research 98(2). Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236669025_Impact_of_Smartphone's_on_Society 

• Glaser M. (2007). How Cell Phones Are Killing Face-to-Face Interactions. Retrieved from http://mediashift.org/2007/10/how-cell-phones-are-killing-face-to-face-interactions295/ 

• Stanek, B. (2014). Science Shows Your Cell Phone Is Ruining Your Life - Even When You're Not Using It. Retrieved from, https://mic.com/articles/106054/science-your-cell-phone-is-ruining-your-life#.6cT1YIAEl