Mobile technology in the village
ICTs, culture, and social logistics in India
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2267142 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Sirpa Tenhunen (0000-0002-8661-8762, University of Helsinki, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2008 |
| Volumen | 14 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 515-534 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2008-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655 |
| Editorial | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2008.00515.x |
| OpenAlex | W2046506079 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 41 |
| Referencias citadas | 28 |
Mobile technology is currently emerging as the first extensive form of electronic communication system in many regions of Africa and Asia. This article analyses the appropriation of mobile phones in rural India by exploring what new social alternatives mobile phones enable and how these new social constellations relate to culture and cultural change. The ethnographic description relates phone usage to other communication patterns and ongoing processes of transformation. The article shows how the appropriation of phones draws from the local cultural and social context, but also that phones facilitate new patterns that show great similarity with social processes in other places where phones have been introduced as the first form of communication technology, such as the increased multiplicity of social contacts and the greater efficiency of market relationships. I argue that mobile technology amplifies ongoing processes of cultural change but does so selectively, so that it brings about the homogenization of 'social logistics'.RésuméDans de nombreuses régions d'Asie et d'Afrique, la technologie mobile apparaît aujourd'hui comme la première forme étendue de communications électroniques. L'auteur analyse ici l'appropriation de la téléphonie mobile en Inde, en explorant les nouvelles alternatives sociales que le téléphone portable rend possibles et les liens entre ces nouvelles constellations sociales, d'une part, et d'autre part la culture et le changement culturel. La description ethnographique fait le lien entre l'utilisation du téléphone et les autres modes de communication et avec les processus actuels de transformation. L'article montre comment l'appropriation du téléphone s'inscrit dans le contexte culturel et social local, tout en mettant en lumière la similarité entre la façon dont le téléphone facilite de nouveaux schémas de communication et les processus sociaux qui se déploient dans d'autres lieux où la téléphonie a été introduite comme première forme de technologie de communication : multiplication des contacts sociaux, efficacité accrue des relations de marché. L'auteur affirme que la technologie mobile amplifie les processus actuels de changement culturel, mais quelle le fait de manière sélective, en induisant ainsi une homogénéisation de la « logistique sociale
Appropriation · Art · Ethnography · Ethnology · Humanities · Mobile phone · Sociology · Telecommunications · Anthropology · Computer Science · ICT Impact and Policies · ICT in Developing Communities · Social Media and Politics
Culture's Calling
Freedom within a cage
Waiting for power
Access or collaboration? A typology of sharing economy
Telecom Expansion and Internal Migrants in Indian Cities
Domestic Connectivity
Manifestations, Drivers, and Frictions of Mobile Phone Use in Low- and Middle-Income Settings
Corona-Jihad Memes
Civic Engagement in Myanmar
The Digital Turn? Technological transformations in the history of documentary cinema in India
Managing elopement on the mobile phone
Embedded and Re-purposed Technologies
In the Field of the Ubiquitous City
Connecting People – Renewing Power Relations? A Research Review on the Use of Mobile Phones
Visualidades y materialidades de lo digital
A Tool for Equality and Justice
Navigating sociocultural communication spaces from a gendered perspective
In the light of what we cannot see
Gendered energy relations at the crossroads of Asia
Village-level solar power in Africa
Phoning it in
Mobile mutuality of being
Meaningful Mobility
Domesticating WhatsApp
Mobile communication in the global south
Open content creation
Mobile netware, social graphs, and the reconfiguration of space
Mobile telephony, mediation, and gender in rural India
Innovation
Mobile phones and women's empowerment in Maasai communities
The Social Implications of Technology Diffusion
On Neoliberalism and Other Social Diseases
Mobile Phones and the Cultural Ecology of Fishing in Kerala, India
Ancient Traditions and Modern Challenges
Tasteless profits and vexed moralities
Digital aspirations
ICT4D and the Siyakhula Living Lab
Mobile Persons
Before the Call
Culture, Conflict, and Translocal Communication
Photographies in Africa in the digital age
Electrifying America
Television And Everyday Life
Design and the Domestication of Information and Communication Technologies
The Local and the Global
Theories of the Information Society
Consuming Technologies
Perpetual Contact
Theories of the Information Society
The Logic of Practice
Islands of History
Extending the Social Shaping of Technology Approach
Media and social change
National Texts and Gendered Lives
The condition of postmodernity
Islands of History
The (limited) effect of cultural globalization in India
Mobile Communication and Society
Culture and political agency
The Gift of Money
American Kinship
The Internet
The Gift of a Virgin
From Kinship to Link-up
| Obras citantes distintas | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 2,41 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 40 |