Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones
Material and Linguistic Intimacies
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2018
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-138-22967-9 (ISBN)
Description
Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones offers a detailed ethnographic and anthropological examination of the social, cultural, linguistic and material aspects of cell phones. With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars, this is a truly global collection with rural and urban examples from communities across the Global North and South. Linking the use of cell phones to contemporary discussions about representation, mediation and subjectivity, the book investigates how this increasingly ubiquitous technology challenges the boundaries of privacy and selfhood, raising new questions about how we communicate.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
2 s/w Tabellen, 21 s/w Abbildungen
2 Tables, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
622 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-22967-9 (9781138229679)
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Joshua A. Bell | Joel C. Kuipers
Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones
Book
08/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
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Joshua A. Bell | Joel C. Kuipers
Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones
E-Book
04/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
€63.49
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Joshua A. Bell | Joel C. Kuipers
Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones
E-Book
04/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
€63.49
Available for download
Persons
Joshua A. Bell is a cultural anthropologist and Curator of Globalization at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, USA.
Joel C. Kuipers is professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at the George Washington University, USA.
Joel C. Kuipers is professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at the George Washington University, USA.
Content
Introduction: Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phone Communication Origins 1. The Slow Road to Tartarus: Technological Fetishism, Materiality, and the Trafficking in "Conflict Minerals" in the Eastern DR Congo 2. The role of mobile phones in the mediation of border crossings: A study of Haiti and the Dominican Republic 3. Bridges to Cash': Channelling Agency in Mobile Money 4. Medialects in the Creation of Mayan Peer Cultures: Romantic Texting as a New Literacy Practice 5. Phone-made Poiesis: Towards an Ethnography of Call and Response 6. Technologically Mediated Sociality: Negotiating Culture, Communication, and Access 7. Safety, Sensemaking and Solidarity: Mobile Communication in the Immediate Aftermath of the July 22, 2011 Oslo Bombing 8. Piracy, Cloning, and Criminal Cats: The Discomforts of Cellularity in Brazil 9. Curating Visual Experiences through Mobile Phones 10. Intimate Materialities in Cell Phone Repair: Performance, Anxiety and Trust in DC Repair Shops 11. Cell Phone Antinomies: A Commentary