ISBN:
9780857720559
,
9781848854291
Language:
English
Pages:
209 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
International Library of Cultural Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Technology and National Identity in Turkey : Mobile Communications and the Evolution of a Post-Ottoman Nation
DDC:
302.2309561
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey has seen a complete re-imagining of its political, cultural and social landscape. Burce A elik argues that technology has been integral to this transformative process, showing how take-up of modern technologies, such as the cell or mobile phone, has been embraced particularly by those who most easily absorbed new ideals about Turkey and modern Turkishness. While many studies on the cultural significance of mobile technology focus on its rational uses and incentives, A elik draws on cultural theory, psychoanalysis and the philosophy of technology to
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Cellular Telephony, Imitation, Attachment; 2. Technology of/in making a Modern Nation: Melancholic Construct, Melancholic Bodies; 3. Rethinking the Technoscape and Contextualiziong Cellular Telephony in Turkey; 4. Attachment to Cellular Telephony: Thinking of Meaning, Function and Bodily Relations; 5. Individual Articulation with Cellular Telephony: Containment, Transference and Translation; 6. Cellular Telephony as a Social Practice: The Collective Desire for Living in an Open Crowd; Bibliography; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
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