Keith N Hampton

Following up on a post I made two years ago on how mobile phones are changing the way teenagers organize house parties, see this article from CBC Calgary (my home town). My original post was about changes in the ability of local police to surveil and control suburban teens. Reduced surveillance, or an inability to control the rapid diffusion of information through new media may have negative consequences for teens as well. It is unclear just how big a roll cell phones played in this tragedy, but this may be an example of how mobile phones played a role in an unplanned house party growing quickly, and beyond expectations resulting in the death of a young man.