ABSTRACT
Dorothée Hefner, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Karin Knop, University of Mannheim, and Christoph Klimmt, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media
Due to developmental needs, adolescents seem to be particularly attracted by the smartphone and its affordance to almost permanently communicate with each other. However, in order not to get overinvolved with it and distracted by it, young people have to develop important competencies. In this chapter, we conceptualize these competencies and define knowledge and awareness regarding computer-mediated communication, self-observation, and self-regulation regarding one’s own smartphone use as central for healthy and beneficial living with the mobile phone in a POPC world.
