The Digitizing Family

An Ethnography of Melanesian Smartphones

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Palgrave Macmillan


Paru le : 2020-02-07



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At once a digital ethnography of smartphones and a classically conceived village-based ethnography, this book relocates the study of digital technologies to rural Melanesia, with a focus on the Lau of Malaita, Soloman Islands. In this ‘technography’, Geoffrey Hobbis studies the materiality and functional attributes of smartphones and their object biographies—modes of acquisition, maintenance, uses, limitations and the problems specific to this region in adopting and adapting smartphones in everyday life. As he examines the various uses of smartphones, as both telephone and multimedia device, Hobbis also explores the social and cultural transformations, the hopes and uncertainties, with which they are associated. Ultimately, in bringing together a study of digital technologies with classical anthropological theory, The Digitizing Family develops a theory of smartphones as kinship technologies and supercompositional objects.
Pages
225 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2020-02-07
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783030349288
EAN PDF
9783030349295

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2
Nombre pages imprimables
22
Taille du fichier
6328 Ko
Prix
89,66 €
EAN EPUB
9783030349295

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2
Nombre pages imprimables
22
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6564 Ko
Prix
89,66 €

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