Mobile phone appropriation in the<i>favelas</i>of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Silva, Adriana de Souza e; Sutko, Daniel M.; Salis, Fernando Alvares; Silva, Claudio de Souza e

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“…Correa and Pavez (2016) found that the geographical location of certain towns in rural Chile affected access, as people in those areas were more isolated, infrastructure was more scarce, and people were less aware of different access possibilities compared to those in big metropolitan areas. De Souza e Silva, et al, (2011) found the environmental circumstances of people living in favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil influenced how they appropriated and cannibalized mobile phones, challenging law enforcement. In sum, our findings contribute to the existing idea that circumstances created by individual and environmental conditions give shape to different access choices, building an access ecology that integrates peoples' access limitations and enablers, ultimately influencing how they use technologies.…”

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confidence: 99%

Parents’ mobile relational maintenance in resource-constrained contexts: Barriers and facilitating access conditions

Velásquez

2018

New Media & Society

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Mobile phones have become central to family members' daily communication. This study investigates the material and skills access barriers that parents of adolescents in resourceconstrained contexts face for mobile relational maintenance. Following an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design, interviews with parents in Bogotá, Colombia explored how they managed to keep in touch with their children despite facing access barriers and how these barriers still affected their parent-child mobile interactions. A survey was conducted in the quantitative phase to confirm the relationship patterns suggested by qualitative findings. Financial, cognitive, and environmental resources constituted access barriers. Despite gaining material access through alternative social and environmental resources, the barriers they faced still influenced the nature and frequency of their parent-child mobile interactions. Findings also showed that cognitive barriers, observed as parents' low levels of perceived capability to learn how to use mobile phones, affected parents' text messaging through their acquisition of skills.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parents’ mobile relational maintenance in resource-constrained contexts: Barriers and facilitating access conditions

Velásquez

2018

New Media & Society

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“…The dissemination of access to mobiles among the members of the low-income strata of the population (by legal or illegal means), despite having promoted social inclusion, has also had an undesirable result. Incarcerated prisoners have gained access to these devices (which are introduced in prisons in a variety of ways) and have started to command organized crime from inside their cells (Costa, 2009;Pinto, 2008;Souza e Silva et al, 2011).…”

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Smartphones and Location Awareness in Brazil: Users’ Reactions

Nicolaci-da-Costa

Matos-Silva

2014

Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto)

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type of communication with distant others was seen as "sustain [ing] only a semblance of 'real relations'" (Fischer, 1992, p. 224). It was feared it could replace face-to-face relations and undermine neighborhood solidarity.As far as these old technologies are concerned, history has made it clear that such negative reactions -known as dystopian -were triggered by fantasized threats and dangers mostly related to people's resistance to change and not to real negative consequences. Even so, it seems fears of the new do not subside. They tend to accompany the emergence of most novel inventions as is the case of contemporary communication technologies. Reactions to Contemporary Telecommunication TechnologiesThe Internet. Much in the same way as the telephone, the Internet introduced a new paradigm for acquiring information Throughout history, new inventions which produced radical changes in one or another aspect of people's ways of living have aroused different imaginary fears and frequent strong reactions. To name just a few, it was thought that writing would create loss of memory (Baym, 2010), the printing press would kill images (Eco, 1996) and the mechanization of labor would lead to the substitution of men for machines (Nisbet, 1966).Telecommunication technologies have not escaped this fate. The invention of the telephone is paradigmatic. In an analysis of the first impacts the telephone had on the American people, Fischer (1992) Abstract: The general objective of this study was to gain detailed information on how Brazilians are using the many features of their smartphones according to their own accounts. Among these features, of particular interest were the ways in which they react to and deal with the novelty presented by location awareness, especially in LBSN applications. A qualitative research guided by the Underlying Discourse Unveiling Method (UDUM) was carried out. Fifteen knowledgeable users of digital technologies aged between 23 and 38 were recruited in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Open-ended-question interviews were conducted with each. Results revealed that location-sharing reinforced their pre-existing fears related to violence and criminality. They knew that criminals may have access to these technologies. Therefore, in order to protect their personal safety most participants avoided location-disclosure. The fears mentioned by them are embedded in the violent context they live in. Keywords: Internet, communication and technology, fear, violence Smartphones e Recursos Locativos no Brasil: Reações de UsuáriosResumo: Este estudo teve o objetivo geral obter informações detalhadas sobre a maneira como brasileiros estão usando os diversos recursos de seus smartphones. Seu interesse específico foi entender como os usuários reagem à novidade da geolocalização presente em redes sociais locativas (RSLs) e como com ela lidam. Foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa guiada pelo Método de Explicitação do Discurso Subjacente (MEDS). Quinze usuários assíduos de tecnologias digitais, com idades entre 23 e 38 a...

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“…Analyses of mobile appropriation consider the economic, social, and technical implications of local use patterns (e.g., de Souza e Silva, Sutko, Salis, & de Souza e Silva, 2011; Sey, 2011). Along with Bar, Weber, and Pisani (2016), we maintain the appropriation process is political, “a contest for control over a technical system’s configuration” (p. 618).…”

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Decolonizing mobile media: Mobile Internet appropriation in a Guaraní community

Wagner

Fernández-Ardèvol

2019

Mobile Media & Communication

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The internet has been a valuable resource for many indigenous groups as a vehicle for selfrepresentation. In this paper we describe how the installation of a Wi-Fi signal in a Guaraní community in Greater Buenos Aires-as part of the community leader's decolonizing media projects-generated issues within the community. While much indigenous media research concerns the politics of cultural representation, we consider the politics of everyday, intracommunity mobile communication practices. Firstly, our findings show how the choice of communication medium can become a political issue. An upsurge in mobile-mediated communication within the community contributed to the decline of face-to-face deliberations which were the mainstay for communal sharing arrangements and which held a central position in understandings of Guaraní culture. Secondly, our findings show how discrepancies between users' communication preferences and the readily available mobile media services can generate a use barrier by demotivating users from obtaining the skills needed to effectively appropriate or transform mobile media services. Familiarity with a few mainstream social media apps not only reinforced imaginaries of the internet as a non-indigenous space but also generated set ideas of what the internet supports in terms of communicative form-social networking-and content 1 Sarah Wagner is a doctoral candidate at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Barcelona. Using collaborative methods, her research explores the intersections of indigenous communicative ecologies and ICT service systems. 2 Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol is a senior researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Barcelona. Mobile communication has been one of her main areas of study since 2003, with a combined sociological and economic focus. Her interests are set both in developed and in developing countries.3 type-mainstream media. In the end, the community leader's decolonizing projects aimed at using social media for community media dissemination were not only rejected by community members but also undermined by the dynamics of mobile media practices in the community. We argue that limited mobile technology skills combined with commercially oriented mobile media services can hinder creative and adaptable mobile media practices, and in turn, decolonizing mobile appropriations.

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Mobile phone appropriation in thefavelasof Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Cited by 60 publications

References 33 publications

Parents’ mobile relational maintenance in resource-constrained contexts: Barriers and facilitating access conditions

Parents’ mobile relational maintenance in resource-constrained contexts: Barriers and facilitating access conditions

Smartphones and Location Awareness in Brazil: Users’ Reactions

Decolonizing mobile media: Mobile Internet appropriation in a Guaraní community

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