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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Wired News: Cell-Phone Shushing Gets Creative: "Across the country, the cell phone is on its way to becoming a pervasive and unremarkable medium, said Mizuko Ito, an anthropologist at the University of Southern California and Japan's Keio University who studies technology and issues pertaining to children and new media.

Ito studies cell-phone culture primarily in Japan, where she said some issues related to courteous use have been worked out. But here in the United States she gets the sense that 'it's still a thing that people are trying to work through,' she said.

'Once you have people from all demographics using the phone and social norms hopefully stabilizing a little bit, my guess is these type of concerns will start to die down or at least be something that's not a topic of widespread concern,' she said."