Choice, Coverage & Cost in the Countryside:: A Topology of Adolescent Rural Mobile Technology Use (Report‪)‬

INTRODUCTION Despite assumptions that mobile technologies allow for communication or information access anywhere, anytime, factors particular to individual locations constrain this ideal scenario. Rural environments present their own set of challenges and complications for the use of a variety of mobile technologies, especially mobile phones. When thinking about the use of mobile technologies for educational purposes, rural contexts present particular challenges: the impact of telecommunications infrastructure or instance has a tangible impact on how the technologies are used as part of daily practice.