Paper Title
How Technologies is Changing our Life in The United Arab Emirates: People and Benefit from Technologies
Abstract
The rise of digital media can be attributed to the increasing number of individuals owning a smartphone, or vice versa, it could be the increasing number of smartphone users that resulted to the rise of digital media. Even though UAE has not adapted smartphone usage and digitization as early as compared to other western countries like the United States and United Kingdom, the dispersion among UAE nationals is 85 percent likened to other populations with 75 percent. This is because Emiratis are considered to be early adopters and trend-setters in the Arab region. The increasing number of Emiratis using smartphones has raised different concerns, especially the effects of too much use of smartphones among the youth in the United Arab Emirates. Therefore, in this paper, the researchers investigate the different effects of smartphones on the youth of the United Arab Emirates through an integrated interview among 12 doctors about the smartphone use of the youth in the country. Through a qualitative research design, the researcher found out that smartphone usage affects the youth in UAE both in the positive and negative way. Moreover, smartphone usage may lead to negative health issues among the youth including obesity. Also, it was concluded that parents should play a role in limiting the number of hours that youth should use their smartphones to maximum of 3 hours a day.
Keywords - New Technologies, youth, UAE, Smartphone.