Mobile Telephony and the Remediation of Couple Intimacy

Lasén, Amparo; Aparicio, Elena Casado

doi:10.1080/14680777.2012.741871

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“…In this sense, I am agreeing with Amparo Lasén and Elena Casado (2012), who argue in their analysis of the remediation of heterosexual couple intimacy in the context of mobile telephony that…”

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Digital Intimacies : Doing Digital Media Differently

Sadowski

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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Section: Remediating Intimacymentioning

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Digital Intimacies : Doing Digital Media Differently

Sadowski

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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“…On a university campus in Tanzania, where young people are striving to balance autonomy and intimacy, emotional attachments are enacted in the personalization of handheld devices: They not only represent an extension of the owner's presence but also allow the virtual presence of others who may be linked through affective ties. This “wireless leash” requires the owner to be continuously connected (Lasén and Casado :552) and plays an important role in setting the boundaries for a young person absent from a household of origin or in the negotiation of some other intimate relationship.…”

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“…And how might these processes be uniquely gendered? I suggest that for this Tanzanian university population, mobile devices are “subjectivized,” that is to say, the acquisition and use of these technologies are independently essential for establishing and maintaining an identity and also sustaining a set of relationships for the user: the object is a silent, flexible, on‐body device mediating autonomy and intimacy (Lasén and Casado ). In urban Cameroon, Johnson‐Hanks () calls this quality “self‐dominion.” In Côte d'Ivoire, Newell () labels this strategic impression management as the “modernity bluff.” This article builds on that literature of youth engagement with technological consumption in Africa and adds discussion to the ways new cellular technologies intersect with the formation of neoliberal subjects who may engage in new practices of gifting and intimacy to frame the production of desire in relation to material and sexual self‐interest (Rofel ).…”

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“Phones mean lies”: Secrets, sexuality, and the subjectivity of mobile phones in Tanzania

Kenny

2016

Economic Anthropology

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Based on a year of ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and participant observation on a university campus in Tanzania, this article examines the ways access and command of mobile technologies frame understandings of reciprocal obligation and intimacy. For this population, mobile devices actually acquire qualities of "ensoulment"; that is to say that the value of the phone is elevated beyond its materiality, becoming an entity whose proximity to the bearer is necessary for contextually specific constructions of identity, personhood, and relationships. In particular, access to and possession of these mobile technologies contribute to transformed strategies of image management that prize privacy and independence. For many of these young people, actually acquiring the "right kind" of phone remains embedded in intergenerational social relationships that include access to capital, gifting, and/or transactional sex, shaping new boundaries about what is expected within families and intimate relationships. Excited by the "new social spaces" afforded by social networks such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Vine, students worry that mobile phones increase the possibility of sexual infidelity and introduce a new vector of surveillance into their lives.

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“…Concretamente, resulta esclarecedor estudiar el papel que desarrollan los secretos en las relaciones de pareja, un ámbito en el que por excelencia -según el ideal social-debe reinar la transparencia (Lasén y Casado, 2012), lo cual se torna complicado si tenemos en cuenta que el individuo moderno aspira a ser autónomo e independiente. Además, al situarnos en el ámbito de la pareja heterosexual se abre otro interrogante, ya que la variable de género entra en juego.…”

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“…Esta frontera se basa precisamente en el manejo de los secretos, pues éstos tienen que existir hacia fuera y no hacia dentro, donde debe reinar la transparencia (Lasén y Casado, 2012). Así, de algún modo la ficción de la masculinidad como algo "duro", "impenetrable" quedaría preservada, siempre que la pareja mantenga el vínculo y conserve esa vulnerabilidad del varón tras sus fronteras.…”

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Encarnando los secretos: la (re)activación de los secretos en el ámbito de las parejas heterosexuales jóvenes

Pinazo

2017

Política Soc.

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Resumen. Debido a una determinada lógica de la transparencia que caracteriza a la sociedad actual, los secretos son estigmatizados de tal manera que aparecen como elementos antagónicos a los vínculos y a su formación. Sin embargo, desde una perspectiva sociológica se puede advertir que los secretos son claves en nuestras relaciones y, especialmente, en la relación de pareja. Por lo tanto, el objetivo de este artículo es analizar el papel que desempeñan los secretos en la relación de pareja, a partir de una serie de entrevistas realizadas en su mayoría a parejas. Se trata de un estudio de caso que muestra la participación (re)activa de los secretos en todas las fases del vínculo de pareja y, puesto que nuestra experiencia de este vínculo es siempre desde el género, esta variable ha servido de eje vertebrador tanto en la observación como en el posterior análisis. De este modo, las principales conclusiones a las que se llega en este trabajo son que, por una parte, los secretos hacen pareja, construyen vínculo, y, por otra, que los secretos son performativos del género, elementos que producen y reproducen la masculinidad y la feminidad. Palabras clave: secretos; relación de pareja; género; performatividad; transparencia.[en] Embodying Secrets: (Re) activation of Secrets in Young Heterosexual CouplesAbstract. Due to the specific logic of transparency which characterizes our current society, secrets are stigmatized such that they appear as antagonistic elements to the formation and continuation of bonds. However, from a sociological perspective we can perceive secrets as central in our relationships and, especially, in relationships between partners. Therefore, the objective of this article is to analyse the role of secrets in relationships from different interviews done mainly to couples. This is a case study that shows the (re)active participation of secrets in every stage of interactions between couples. Our experience of these interactions is always dictated by gender hence this variable is the core idea both in the observation and later analysis. Thereby, the main conclusions of this study are, on the one hand, secrets build relationships and links, while on the other hand, secrets are examples of gender performativity, elements which produce and reproduce masculinity and femininity.

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Mobile Telephony and the Remediation of Couple Intimacy

Cited by 40 publications

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Digital Intimacies : Doing Digital Media Differently

Digital Intimacies : Doing Digital Media Differently

“Phones mean lies”: Secrets, sexuality, and the subjectivity of mobile phones in Tanzania

Encarnando los secretos: la (re)activación de los secretos en el ámbito de las parejas heterosexuales jóvenes

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