On July 19, 2010 we went to Manhattan to interview Deepa Fernandes who is the director of the People's Production House. The People's Production House is and organization that provides media training to community groups and youth. As we interviewed Deepa, she brought up a couple of good points about how cell phones can be used besides texting and calling our friends. However, certain people can't get access to a cell phones due to how expensive cell phone plans are. She advocates for people who receive low incomes, immigrants and groups such as street vendors so that they can get access to a cell pone. She gave an example about a single parent who works two jobs to provide for her children cannot make it to PTA meetings because they are too busy working. However, if this mother had a cell phone she would be able to receive texts or even send texts to other parents in the meeting to help improve her children's education. -Jackie
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