Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones
By: editors, Kuipers, Joel C.
Contributors: Kuipers, Joel C, editor
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781315388380
Subjects: Cell phones; Social aspects; Technology; Communication and technology; Communication et technologie
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."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Origins --; title: chapter Introduction --; title: Linguistic and material intimacies of cell phone communication  -- Joel C. Kuipers Joshua A. Bell; title: chapter 1 The slow road to Tartarus --; title: Technological fetishism, materiality, and the trafficking in "conflict minerals" in the eastern DR Congo  -- Jeffrey W. Mantz; title: chapter 2 Objects of mobility --; title: The role of the mobile phone on the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic  -- Heather Horst Erin B. Taylor; title: chapter 3 'Bridges to cash' --; title: Channelling agency in mobile money  -- Bill Maurer Taylor C. Nelms Stephen C. Rea; title: part, II Uses --; title: chapter 4 Medialects in the creation of Mayan peer cultures --; title: Romantic texting as a new literacy practice  -- Lourdes de León; title: chapter 5 Phone-made poiesis --; title: Towards an ethnography of call and response  -- Jennifer Deger; title: chapter 6 Technologically mediated sociality --; title: Negotiating culture, communication, and access  -- Elizabeth Keating; title: chapter 7 Safety, sensemaking, and solidarity --; title: Mobile communication in the immediate aftermath of the July 22, 2011, Oslo bombing  -- Rich Ling Pål Sundsøy Leysia Palen Geoffrey Canright Johannes Bjelland Kenth Engø-Monsen; title: chapter 8 Piracy, cloning, and criminal cats --; title: The discomforts of cellularity in Brazil  -- Alexander S. Dent; title: chapter 9 Curating visual experiences through mobile phones  -- Alexandra Weilenmann Thomas Hillman; title: part, III Ends of life --; title: chapter 10 Intimate materialities in cell phone repair --; title: Performance, anxiety, and trust in DC repair shops  -- Joel C. Kuipers Joshua A. Bell Jacqueline Hazen Amanda Kemble Briel Kobak; title: chapter 11 Cell phone antinomies --; title: A commentary -- Webb Keane.