Interaction of teenagers and mobile: qualitative study of female adolescents in Karaj

Despite the fact that several decades has been passed from the life of mobile phone in the world and different researches on this field, but various features of this communication tool, such as updating capability, cause that it remains at center of attention till now. The purpose of this research is to answer these two questions: which factors influence on the teenager's kind of use and what is the impact of using these mobile phone on the adolescence's everyday life? For answering the first question we use socio-psychological perspective and for the second one, we employ the communication theories. In this article we use qualitative method and semi-structured interviews. Our interviewees include 15 students from the middle and high school in the Karaj. According to the answer of interviewees some factors like parenting style, peer group, self-monitoring, older siblings and financial dependence on family could be influential on the teenager's kinds of use. Furthermore they use the mobile for showing their interdependency also they could have a new hidden relation.