ISBN:
978-3-030-34928-8
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978-3-030-34929-5 / E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
225 Seiten
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Schlagwort(e):
Anthropologie, soziale Melanesien
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Salomonen
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Ländliches Gebiet
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Ethnographie
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Telekommunikation
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Handy
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Jugendlicher
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Familie
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Alter
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Soziologie
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Sozialer Aspekt
Kurzfassung:
At once a digital ethnography of smartphones and a classically conceived village-based ethnography, this book relocates the study of digital technologies to rural Melanesia, with a focus on the Lau of Malaita, Soloman Islands. In this `technography`, Geoffrey Hobbis studies the materiality and functional attributes of smartphones and their object biographiesmodes of acquisition, maintenance, uses, limitations and the problems specific to this region in adopting and adapting smartphones in everyday life. As he examines the various uses of smartphones, as both telephone and multimedia device, Hobbis also explores the social and cultural transformations, the hopes and uncertainties, with which they are associated. Ultimately, in bringing together a study of digital technologies with classical anthropological theory, The Digitizing Family develops a theory of smartphones as kinship technologies and supercompositional objects. (Umschlagtext)
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Part I. Introduction -- 1. Digitizing the Melanesian Family -- 2. Methodological Notes -- Part II. The Many Lives and Deaths of the Melanesian Smartphone -- 3. A Sketch of the Many Births, Lives and Deaths of Smartphones -- 4. A Digital Swiss Army Knife -- Part III. SIM Card Culture and Digitizing Kin Networks -- 5. Digitizing Social Networks -- 6. Telephonic Immorality and Uncertainty -- Part IV MicroSD Culture and Digital Parenting -- 7. The Muvi Haos -- 8. The Babysitting Smartphone -- Part V Towards a Theory of Smartphones as Kinship Tools -- 9. The Sociotechnical System of Melanesian Smartphones -- 10. Conclusion: Towards the Supercompositional Object -- Index
Anmerkung:
"Particular appreciation goes to Christine Jourdan and Pierre Lemonnier for co-supervising my doctoral work" (Seite v)
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Thèse de doctorat en Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie, EHESS en cotutelle avec l'Université Concordia, Paris, 2017, intituler "A technographic investigation of mobile phone adoption in the Lau Lagoon, Malaita, Solomon Islands"
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