Can anyone direct me to academic research on mobile phones and 1) the harm they do through (for example) enabling/encouraging bullying via text message, "happy slapping" (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4539913.stm) or 2) The offense they might cause by allowing kids to see pornographic content or enabling gambling etc, or through the invasion of privacy of others using cameras in the phones ('upskirt pictures' etc)? For the purposes of my research I am not interested in the (real or supposed) direct effects of mobile phone radiation or phone masts on health. I have had no luck in browsing through this huge and otherwise interesting mobile phone research bibliography: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~nalinik/mobile.html or searching the Web of Science for "mobile" and "harm/risk/danger/bullying/abuse/hazard" nor did I find anything with Scopus. There may be stuff buried in various 'general' books about mobile phones and their significance but I am reluctant to try to skim all of them unless someone can recommend a specific likely text as the ones I have seen have little to say on this particular aspect. All I have found so far is: Charlton, T., C. Panting and A. Hannan (2002) "Mobile Telephone Ownership and Usage among 10- and 11-Year-Olds: Participation and Exclusion", Emotional Behavioural Difficulties, 7 (3), pp. 152-163 which found in a small (N=157) survey of kids in a school that 11% admitted to receiving either a rude message (4%) or a threat (7%) [included rude jokes and racist comments]. Furthermore, 17% had been sent a frightening message, and 14% admitted to sending one. and: Palmer, T. and L. Stacey (2004) Just One Click: Sexual Abuse of Children and Young People through the Internet and Mobile Telephone Technology, Barnardo's, Ilford. (which is mainly case studies and policy recommendations) Any help would be much appreciated... --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)