Mobile phones in Africa
The politics of cultural and material integration into local economies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12601992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Odhiambo Ogone (0000-0001-5901-3349, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 531-546 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-8779 • E-ISSN: 1460-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1367877920903739 |
| OpenAlex | W3005391244 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 20 |
The rapid expansion of mobile telephony in Africa has been the subject of many debates both in the academia and industry. However, such discourse has tended to focus more on the technology itself rather than its users. This article seeks to frame mobile phones as modern technologies whose contextual uses are heavily entangled in the unique socio-economic dynamics of the African continent. Here the focus is on the African informal economy and the culture it enables, the fractious nature of infrastructure and practices of repair, African notions of conviviality and their political role, and African traditions in the context of globalization. Through these various lenses the study considers the different ways in which the mobile phone becomes Africanized
Context (archaeology · Economics · Economy · Focus (optics · Frame (networking · Globalization · Mobile phone · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Telecommunications · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · History · ICT in Developing Communities · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
Signal and Noise
Television And Everyday Life
Rethinking Repair
An Oral Philosophy of Personhood
Mobile Phones, Popular Media, and Everyday African Democracy
Media Anthropology
On the Postcolony
For the City Yet to Come
Consumption, Technology and Adaptation
The rural-urban migrant network in Kenya
Ethnography as participant listening
Out of Order
Incompleteness
Cell Phones, Social Inequality, and Contemporary Culture in Nigeria
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |