<p>Market information and established communication between seller and buyer play an important role in business activities. This thesis investigates the Transkei area in the Eastern Cape&nbsp / Province, South Africa to find out how to empower rural farmers by providing them with less-expensive mobile technology enabling them to post and advertise their produce, access market&nbsp / information on a common database, and find and communicate with potential customers. The farmers&rsquo / requirements were identified using quantitative and qualitative methods and a prototype&nbsp / consisting of USSD and web applications was developed. It allows the farmer to follow a sequence of menu commands to send a request to the database and access market information, such&nbsp / as commodity prices, and post information about their own produce so as to attract more customers. The low cost of USSD and the ubiquity of mobile phones enable the system to be usable, affordable and effective. During the final stage of development, the system was tested successfully and addressed a major problem faced by farmers, i.e. lack of access to market information.</p>

Cette thèse porte sur l’étude de la contribution des TIC à l’amélioration des conditions de vie des populations défavorisées. A partir d’un cadre empirique et spatial qu’est la Contrée de Law située sur la rive droite du Fleuve Sénégal, nous tentons de montrer comment les populations enclavées et pauvres et abandonnées par les pouvoirs publics ont pu faire des TIC des outils pour l’amélioration des conditions de vie. En effet, dans cette localité enclavée, la sécheresse des années 70, a détruit le tissu économique local qui reposait sur une agriculture de subsistance. Les émigrés qui ont déserté cette localité se sont retrouvés en Europe pour subvenir aux besoins des familles restées au pays. En effet, les transferts d’argent constituent, pour beaucoup de familles, le seul moyen de faire face aux besoins quotidiens. Ces transferts d’argent empruntent des canaux informels grâce au téléphone portable. Après avoir passé en revue les différents types de transferts, l’étude empirique s’est intéressée sur les retombées de cette manne financière dans les villages et villes du bassin du Fleuve Sénégal utilisant, non pas du PIB par tête, mais des indicateurs de développement humain plus objectifs en termes de retombées sociales. En plus d’assurer la survie de la famille, les immigrés regroupés en associations dans les localités d’accueil, entreprennent des projets communautaires. Les transformations urbaines grâce aux projets immobiliers sont aussi un indicateur important. Les chantiers qui émergent créent de l’emploi dans les petites et moyennes entreprises comme la soudure, la menuiserie et la quincaillerie. Par ailleurs, les radios communautaires installées le long de la rive gauche du fleuve ont un impact important au sein des populations de la rive droite. Ces radios, prolongement de l’oralité, sont très proches des préoccupations locales. En effet, les annonces et les informations véhiculées à travers ces radios concernent le quotidien des populations. Mais en même temps cette appropriation des TIC a entraîné des changements socioculturels importants au sein de populations et a creusé davantage la fracture sociale par la paupérisation et la marginalisation. Cependant, l’oralité support de l’identité culturelle semble épargnée par cette perte de repères car les médias comme la radio et le téléphone portable sont une sorte « d’oralité seconde », une sorte de préservation des formes de communications traditionnelles largement évoquées dans la partie empirique. / This thesis deals with the study of the contribution of ICT to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged populations. From an empirical and spatial framework that is the Law Contrée located on the right bank of the River Senegal, we try to show how populations isolated and poor and abandoned by the public authorities were able to make ICT tools for the improvement of living conditions. Indeed, in this enclave locality, droughts of the 1970s, has destroyed the local economic fabric based on subsistence agriculture. Emigrants who have deserted this locality are found in Europe to meet the needs of families remained in the country. In fact, money transfers for many families are the only way to cope with everyday needs. These money transfers through informal channels through the mobile phone. After reviewing the different types of transfers, empirical study is interested on the impact of this financial windfall in the villages and towns of the basin of river Senegal using, rather than of GDP per capita, but more objective indicators of human development in terms of social benefits. In addition to ensuring the survival of family, immigrants grouped into associations in host communities undertake community-based projects. Urban transformations through real estate projects are also an important indicator. Sites that create employment in small and medium-sized enterprises such as welding, carpentry and hardware. Furthermore, community radio located on the left bank of the River has an impact of populations on the right bank. These radios, extension of Orality, are very close to local concerns. Indeed, announcements and information conveyed through these radios relate to the everyday life of the populations. But at the same time this appropriation of ICTs has resulted in significant socio-culturalchanges in populations and deepened further the social divide by poverty and marginalization. However, oral cultural identity support appears to be spared by this loss of marks because the media like radio and mobile phones are a kind of second Orality", a kind of preservation of traditional communications widely evoked in the empirical part forms.

L’étude de la confiance dans le domaine des sciences de l’information et de la communication revêt une importance capitale pour cette discipline au carrefour des autres. Elle permet d’affiner mais aussi de compléter les connaissances pour une meilleure appréhension des phénomènes informationnels et communicationnels. La confiance du fait de sa nature jugée trop théorique, reste très peu mobilisée dans les recherches comme une variable explicative des phénomènes de l’information et de la communication.L’objectif de ce travail est de mesurer le niveau de confiance des utilisateurs dans « orange money ». Ce service de transaction monétaire par téléphone mobile fait désormais partie de la gamme des services proposés à la population malienne par la société de télécommunication Orange Mali. En vue d’atteindre cet objectif, un questionnaire a été administré auprès de 309 citadins dans le district de Bamako (Mali).Les résultats issus du traitement et de l’analyse des données collectées montrent que, les répondants ont un niveau élevé de confiance dans les transactions monétaires sur téléphone mobile. Cependant, il ressort de ces résultats une méfiance généralisée des participants à l’enquête à donner leurs informations personnelles à Orange Mali. L’ensemble de ces résultats sont interprétés dans un chapitre dédié.Le présent de thèse s’articule autour de dix chapitres. Il se compose de trois grandes parties dont la première est consacrée à la présentation des concepts théoriques de la confiance, le contexte économique et social. La deuxième partie se focalise sur l’analyse des données et l’interprétation des résultats de l’étude. La troisième partie est focalisée à la mise en perspectives des principaux résultats de ce travail. / The study of trust in the field of information and communication science is of paramount importance in this discipline at the crossroad of others research field. It helps to refine and to supplement the knowledge to a better understanding of informational and communicational phenomena. Trust due to it theoretical aspects, is rarely mobilized in research as an explanatory variable in information and communication sciences.The objective of this work is to measure the level of trust of "Orange Money" users. This money transfer system based on mobile phone is now part of the range of services offered by the company of telecommunications Orange Mali to Malian populations. In order to achieve this, a questionnaire was administered to 309 citizens in the district of Bamako, the main city of Mali.Results from the processing of collected data show a high level of confidence of users in monetary transactions by mobile phone. However, the result shows a general distrust of survey participants to give their personal information to Orange Mali. All these results are interpreted in a dedicated chapter.The present thesis focuses on ten chapters organized into three parts: the first is devoted to the presentation of theoretical concepts on trust, economic and social context. The second part focuses on the analysis, processing and interpretation of data collected on our field survey. And finally, in the third part, we try to put into perspective the results.

>Magister Scientiae - MSc / Many South African Deaf people use their mobile phones for communication with SMSs yet they would prefer to converse in South African Sign Language. Deaf people with a capital `D' are different from deaf or hard of hearing as they primarily use sign language to communicate. This study explores how to design and evaluate a prototype that will allow a Deaf person using SASL to tell a hearing doctor how s/he is feeling and provide a way for the doctor to respond. A computer{based prototype was designed and evaluated with the Deaf people in a previous study. Results from the user trial of the computer{based mock{up indicated that Deaf users would like to see the prototype on a cell phone. Those user trial results, combined with our own user survey results conducted with Deaf people, are used as requirements. We built a prototype for a mobile phone browser by embedding SASL videos inside XHTML pages using Adobe Flash. The prototype asks medical questions using SASL videos. These questions are arranged in an organized way that helps in identifying a medical problem. The answers to the questions are then displayed in English and shown to the doctor on the phone. A content authoring tool was also designed and implemented. The content authoring tool is used for populating the prototype in a context free manner allowing for plug and play scenarios such as a doctor's office, Department of Home A airs or police station. A focus group consisting of Deaf people was conducted to help in the design and pilot trial of the system. A final user trial was conducted with more than thirty Deaf people and the results are presented and analyzed. Data is collected with questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and video recordings. The results indicate that most of the Deaf people found the system easy to learn, easy to navigate through, did not get lost and understood the sign language in the videos on the mobile phone. The hand gestures and facial expressions on the sign language videos were clear. Most of them indicated they would like to use the system for free, and that the system did not ask too many questions. Most of them were happy with the quality of the sign language videos on the mobile phone and would consider using the system in real life. Finally they felt their private information was safe while using the system. Many South African Deaf people use their mobile phones for communication with SMSs yet they would prefer to converse in South African Sign Language. Deaf people with a capital `D' are different from deaf or hard of hearing as they primarily use sign language to communicate. This study explores how to design and evaluate a prototype that will allow a Deaf person using SASL to tell a hearing doctor how s/he is feeling and provide a way for the doctor to respond. A computer{based prototype was designed and evaluated with the Deaf people in a previous study. Results from the user trial of the computer{based mock{up indicated that Deaf users would like to see the prototype on a cell phone. Those user trial results, combined with our own user survey results conducted with Deaf people, are used as requirements. We built a prototype for a mobile phone browser by embedding SASL videos inside XHTML pages using Adobe Flash. The prototype asks medical questions using SASL videos. These questions are arranged in an organized way that helps in identifying a medical problem. The answers to the questions are then displayed in English and shown to the doctor on the phone. A content authoring tool was also designed and implemented. The content authoring tool is used for populating the prototype in a context free manner allowing for plug and play scenarios such as a doctor's office, Department of Home A airs or police station. A focus group consisting of Deaf people was conducted to help in the design and pilot trial of the system. A final user trial was conducted with more than thirty Deaf people and the results are presented and analyzed. Data is collected with questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and video recordings. The results indicate that most of the Deaf people found the system easy to learn, easy to navigate through, did not get lost and understood the sign language in the videos on the mobile phone. The hand gestures and facial expressions on the sign language videos were clear. Most of them indicated they would like to use the system for free, and that the system did not ask too many questions. Most of them were happy with the quality of the sign language videos on the mobile phone and would consider using the system in real life. Finally they felt their private information was safe while using the system. / South Africa

The Internet has become the dominant medium in the last decade, and increasingly, mobile phone use is a natural part of our lives, and in any age category. Tobacco use is currently very popular, according to the State Health Institute (2018), a total of 25.2% of smokers in the adult population in 2017. The thesis deals with the research carried out in 2018, focusing on the use of mobile phones and the use of tobacco products by members of the Police of the Czech Republic, comparing the use during working hours against use outside of working hours. Data collection was conducted through a standardized questionnaire survey. To determine the use of tobacco, the Cigarettes Scale Questionnaire was used and a Chen Internet Scale Questionnaire was used to determine the use of the mobile phone. In the form of simple, deliberate selection on the basis of possibilities and availability, the members of the Police of the Czech Republic in the Česká Lípa District were included in the research and were included in twelve local offices. The number of respondents involved in the survey was 100 policemen. The data I received from the questionnaires was summed up before the statistical processing and the categorization of the answers was done. The results obtained were rewritten into a table in MS Excel, where they were...

An object of this diploma thesis is a study of daily rhythms of municipalities in the Central Bohemian Region. The aim is to bring new insights into the daily rhythms of the suburban zone of the Prague Metropolitan Area and the Central Bohemian Region. The work has three main objectives. The first objective is to create a typology of the Central Bohemian municipalities according to their daily rhythms. Mobile phone location data is used to create the typology. There was used a method called cluster analysis. The second objective is to evaluate the daily rhythms in selected municipalities (Kněževes, Ořech, Tochovice) in detail with other data (mobile phone location data from Prague Institute of Planning and Development and commuting data from the Census 2011). Using these sources, I want to highlight the obstacles, but also the benefits of using mobile phone location data in studying of daily rhythms. The last objective is to describe in these three municipalities the pacemakers which influent their timing. The results show that in the Central Bohemian region dominate municipalities with a residential type of daily rhythm. Most of these municipalities are located in the suburban zone of Prague, while in other municipalities of the Central Bohemian region is the rhythm often almost balanced. Large...

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Salvador, BA, Brasil / O crescimento da Telefonia Celular (TC) e, portanto, do número de Estações Radiobase (ERB), que estabelecem a comunicação com os aparelhos celulares, ampliou a aplicabilidade de serviços decorrentes desta tecnologia sem fio. Embora apresente benefícios para o estilo atual de vida, a TC tem gerado preocupações sobre os possíveis efeitos adversos à saúde das populações expostas às radiações eletromagnéticas não ionizantes (RENI). Estão inclusos nesta tese o conjunto de três artigos com o objetivo geral de investigar a associação entre exposição a radiações eletromagnéticas não ionizantes decorrentes das ERB/TC e efeitos à saúde. Em estudo de corte transversal, foram aplicados 440 questionários por meio de entrevistas domiciliares em dois bairros na cidade de Salvador/BA. Inicialmente analisou-se a exposição às RENI/TC quanto às formas de uso do aparelho de telefone celular e a percepção da população quanto à exposição às RENI. Considerando os fenômenos físicos da absorção, reflexão e difração, que afetam a propagação das ondas eletromagnéticas e características do funcionamento do telefone celular, especialmente por ser esta a fonte mais forte do cérebro a RENI, a forma de uso pela população, a inexistência de ERB/TC em Monte Serrat, considerando ainda, as pesquisas que apontam associação entre RENI do telefone celular e efeitos a saúde e os achados desta investigação, considera-se pertinente a hipótese de associação entre efeitos à saúde e os exposição à RENI/TC. Estes efeitos estariam mais vinculados ao uso do telefone celular em relação à ERB/TC. Neste sentido, entende-se que as razões que deveriam ser de maior preocupação da população estão relacionados â duração das chamadas, ao uso do aparelho com sinal de cobertura fraco e a proximidade do aparelho ao crânio, dentre outros modos inadequados de uso. No caso da exposição à RENI/ERB, tendo em vista os baixos valores de campo elétrico e que os indivíduos estão em campo distante, os efeitos poderiam ser para os residentes até 300 m do seu entorno. Na análise da percepção dos entrevistados, observou-se mais a referência a riscos que a benefícios. Verificou-se que idade influencia na percepção do risco associado às RENI/TC. Avaliou-se a associação entre queixas e diagnósticos psiquiátricos e neurológicos e a exposição às RENI/TC, utilizando-se a análise de regressão logística hierarquizada. Observou-se uma associação entre efeitos neuropsiquiátricos e residir próximo à ERB e formas de uso do telefone celular (mais de 30min/dia, com sinal de cobertura fraco, perto do corpo, dois ou mais chips e nunca desligar o celular ao dormir). Concluiu-se que a exposição à RENI/TC foi associada aos efeitos neuropsiquiátricos independente do sexo, escolaridade e tabagismo. Neste sentido, recomenda-se a adoção de medidas precaucionárias com intuito de se reduzir este tipo de exposição: a instalação de ERB/TC afastada pelo menos a um raio de 300 m das residências. O usuário de telefone celular deve utilizar fone de ouvido ou pop fone, assim como, evitar usar o aparelho com sinal de cobertura fraco; deve-se ainda deixar o telefone celular afastado do corpo e mantê-lo desligado ao dormir. Estes resultados podem orientar as autoridades no sentido da realização de ações de prevenção/precaução e informações para tomada de decisões quanto ao gerenciamento e comunicação de risco em prol da promoção da saúde dos indivíduos quando expostos a tais radiações. / The growth of mobile phone and therefore the number of base station, which establish communication with mobile devices, has extended the applicability of services under this wireless technology. Although it has benefits for the current lifestyle, mobile phone has generated concerns about possible adverse health effects of exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation populations. The set of three articles are included in this thesis with the overall objective to investigate the association between exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation arising from base station of the mobile phone and health symptoms. In cross-sectional study, 440 questionnaires were applied by means of interviews in two neighborhoods in Salvador/BA. Initially examined whether exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation/mobile phone on ways to use the cell phone handset and the perception of the population in exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation. Considering physical phenomena of absorption, reflection and diffraction, which affect the propagation of electromagnetic characteristics and functioning of the cell phone waves, especially as this is the strongest source of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, how to use by the population, the lack of base station Monte Serrat, considering also research showing an association between cell phone non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation and health effects and the findings of this research, it is appropriate to analyze the association between health effects and exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation mobile phone. These effects would be more linked to cell phone use in relation to base station. In this sense, it is understood that the reasons should be of more concern of the population are related to the duration of the calls, the use of the set of weak signal coverage and the proximity of the device to the skull, among other inappropriate usage modes. In the case of exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation/base station, in view of the low values of the electric field and that individuals are in the far field, the effects would be for residents to 300 m from its surroundings. In the analysis of the perception of the respondents, it was found more reference to risks than benefits. It was found that age influences the perception of risk associated with non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation /mobile phone. We evaluated the association between complaints and neurological and psychiatric diagnoses and exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation mobile phone, using a hierarchical logistic regression analysis. We observed an association between neuropsychiatric effects and reside near the base station and forms of cell phone use (≤30min / day, with weak signal coverage near the body, two or more chips and never turn off the phone to sleep). It was concluded that exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation mobile phone and other electronics was independently associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms of gender, education and smoking. In this sense, it is recommended the adoption of precautionary measures aiming to reduce such exposure: the installation of base stations of mobile phone away at least a distance of 300 m from residences. The cell phone user must use earphone or headphone pop, as well as to avoid using the device with weak signal coverage; should still leave the cell phone away from the body and keep it off while sleeping. These results may guide the authorities towards the achievement of prevention/ precaution and information for decision making regarding the management and risk communication for the promotion of health of individuals when exposed to such radiation.

Research questions: This research was focused on exploring the impact of communication technologies on rural populations in the Congo. In particular, this research posed two questions: 1. Do mobile phones produce development in rural areas of the Congo? 2. Do mobile phones improve the living conditions of people? The questions helped examine ways in which mobile phones were or were not engendering development among these populations. Methods: The research was undertaken using four methods: 1. Phenomenology, 2. Sen's capability approach, 3. Participatory method, and 4. Ecological method. Phenomenology aimed to cater to the experiences and meanings of mobile phone uses. Sen's capability approach allowed the interviews to be focused on the basic needs of the poor. Participatory method provided a greater participation of respondents in discussion groups, and ecological method helped achieve a higher inclusion of key players in the targeted area. Major findings: The major findings of this study included: 1. Much of the literature on mobile phones and development was not representative or inclusive of key players and their day-to-day lives. 2. Studies have tended to present snapshots or single-focused accounts of mobile phone and development. 3. Authors of mobile phone research have tended to see rural populations with an urban-led bias, leaving aside the actual characteristics of rural areas. 4. Mobile phones were not limited to a person and her properties, but rather mobile phones were owned and shared by the community. 5. Participants expressed a need for technical skills and means to be available to the community and their members. 6. Households were not separated, but rather they were connected to allow people take care of one another. 7. People were connected through collective solidarities in order to come to the aid of those with special needs. 8. Literature and mobile phone sponsors or companies were disseminating mobile phones with an extractive and commercial tendency, focused principally on fees of batteries, chargers, and prepaid cards. Major contributions: The major contributions of this research revolved around the focus on: 1. technology to enhance the needed technical skills among concerned populations. 2. shared ownership of mobile phones to cater to both users and non-users of mobile phones among concerned populations. 3. connected households to capitalize on the dynamics of family among concerned populations. 4. collective solidarities to accommodate the processes of aiding one another among concerned populations. 5. capabilities, from a commercial or extractive aspect to capabilities to enhance the capabilities of people to afford mobile phones fees. 6. capabilities, from a corporate or business aspect to capabilities to enhance the capabilities of people who did not and could not own a business. 7. human basic needs to enhance the capabilities of mobile phone users with regard to human basic needs. 8. outliers or the marginalized to attend to those left out among concerned populations. 9. mobile phone-centric libraries to enhance the storage and retrieval of needed information among concerned populations.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The objective of this research, in visual poetic, is to investigate in a practicaltheoretical way, the photography production from the usage of a new media: the mobile phone. This research aims to question the mobile photography while photographic object, as question the ephemerid of photographic act through a mobile device. In the subjugate of the pre-established technical limitation, which is a mobile device characteristic, I am developing a poetic which works the photographic capture and post-capture in transit, the mobility. This is a poetic motivated by a growing potential that is reaching the mobile communication and that tries to include new media in daily basis. Therefore, we are being guided by electronic impulses and dialogs mediated by the machine. Through three-distinct operational process, from innumerous possible, I work the mobile photography searching ways to transform it in an expressive way of art. In the position of a armed subject and completely apparatus , with a camera always in hand, I tried to express an experience derived not only from my subjectivity while author and real subject, but also as a experience that elucidates the device chosen automatisms and, therefore, and automatized subject revealed, non-personalized. In this way, all the photographic production process, capture and post-capture, get instituted by an interactive dialog between subjectivity and automaticity. / O objetivo desta pesquisa, em poéticas visuais, é investigar de modo teóricoprático a produção de fotografias a partir do uso de uma nova mídia: o telefone móvel. O propósito é questionar a fotografia móvel enquanto objeto fotográfico, bem como questionar a efemeridade do ato fotográfico mediado por um dispositivo móvel. No subjugo da limitação técnica pré-estabelecida, própria dos dispositivos móveis, desenvolvo uma poética que trabalha a captura e a pós-captura fotográfica em trânsito, na mobilidade. É uma poética motivada pelo crescente potencial atingido pela comunicação móvel e que atenta para a inclusão cada vez mais frequente das novas mídias no cotidiano, fazendo com que o homem seja cada vez mais guiado por impulsos eletrônicos e diálogos mediados pelo maquínico. Por meio de três processos operatórios distintos, dentre os inúmeros possíveis, trabalho a fotografia móvel buscando maneiras de fazer dela um meio expressivo na arte. Na posição de um sujeito armado (SONTAG, 1980) e completamente aparelhado (COUCHOT, 2003), com uma câmera sempre à mão, procuro exprimir uma experiência que deriva não apenas da minha subjetividade enquanto autora e sujeito real, mas também uma experiência que enuncia os automatismos do dispositivo escolhido e, portanto, reveladora de um sujeito automatizado, despersonalizado. Dessa maneira, todo o processo de produção fotográfica, captura e pós-captura, instaura-se por meio de um diálogo interativo entre subjetividade e automaticidade.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T16:18:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 sandrine.pdf: 2111537 bytes, checksum: dfedb470f220d9a462a0a966ee32e422 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study aimed to investigate the presence of the cell phone and its recurrence for educational use in the municipal schools of Florianopolis - RME, collecting and analyzing data about the access and familiarity of students and teachers with digital media in the school environment of RME, and also verifying the status of the cell phone and the use of its photo and video devices. A literature review leaded to an investigation about the tensions and meetings produced by the presence of media in schools, with emphasis on educational issues of authority and digital inclusion, and teacher training. Using questionnaires, it was found that the cell is accessible to almost all the students and teachers of the RME of Florianópolis at the three schools surveyed. Both groups are aware that the cell is restrained by law, but it does not prevent its presence and use in schools. The teachers and students are favorable to the pedagogical use of cell phone, and to its photo and video capabilities. A larger debate about the use of these tools in schools is essential, because the formal prohibition does not preclude the use of the cell phone, perceived as a tool of transgression by students, and therefore its educational potential stays unseen for the teachers / Nesta pesquisa buscou-se investigar a presença do celular e suas recorrências de uso pedagógico em escolas da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Florianópolis, coletando e analisando-se dados sobre o acesso e a familiaridade discente e docente com as mídias digitais no ambiente escolar da RME, bem como sobre o estatuto do celular e do uso de seus dispositivos de fotografia e vídeo. Investigam-se por meio de levantamento bibliográfico as tensões e os encontros produzidos pela presença desta mídia nas escolas, destacando questões educativas acerca de autoridade e de inclusão digital, bem como de capacitação docente. Por meio de questionários, verificou-se que o celular está acessível à quase totalidade dos estudantes e professores da RME de Florianópolis nas três escolas pesquisadas. Ambos os grupos têm ciência do impedimento legal do celular, mas isto não evita sua presença e uso nas escolas. Tanto os professores quanto os estudantes mostram-se favoráveis ao uso pedagógico do celular, e também de seus recursos de fotografia e vídeo. Considera-se imprescindível um debate maior sobre o uso destas ferramentas nas escolas, pois a proibição formal não impede o uso do celular, visto como ferramenta de transgressão pelos estudantes, e ele acaba não tendo seu potencial de ferramenta educativa aproveitado pelos professores