Reorienting the Mobile

Australasian Imaginaries

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7512397
AutoresG Goggin (0000-0002-2954-5309, UNSW Sydney, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen24
Número3
Páginas171-181
Fecha de publicación2008-05-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Information Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0197-2243 • E-ISSN: 1087-6537
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01972240802020077
OpenAlexW2019132192
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas9

In this paper, I approach the question of mobiles in Asian countries by considering the case of Australia. I do so by way of a preliminary inquiry that seeks to explore the intersection between the emergence of mobiles in Australia with transformations in that country's sense of its relationship with Asia. First I discuss the history of the mobile phone in Australia, noting some important uses and representations that formed part of its social shaping. Second, I explore mobiles and the paradoxes of multiculturalism, and also how digital technologies became central to political culture and identity debates in Australia in the early to-mid 1990s. Third, I look at some important moments in the social shaping of text messaging, in which questions of cultural difference were decisive. Finally, I offer concluding remarks about future research on mobiles in Australia and how they are tied into Asian identities

Aesthetics · Geography · Identity (music · Intersection (aeronautics · Media studies · Mobile phone · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Telecommunications · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Law · Media Studies and Communication