Sex, Cannibals, and the Language of Cool: Indonesian Tales of the Phone and Modernity

Barendregt, Bart

doi:10.1080/01972240802020044

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“…Much of anthropological research on the uses of new technologies have an emphasis in common on how the appropriation of these technological innovations tends to reinforce existing structures (Horst and Miller 2006;Barendregt 2008;Archambault 2010). We ask whether innovations are mainly used to strengthen local hierarchies, or whether they also have a transformative potential.…”

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Innovation: transforming hierarchies in South Asia

Säävälä

Tenhunen

2014

Contemporary South Asia

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This special issue examines innovation as social change in South Asia. From an anthropological micro perspective, innovation is moulded by social systems of value and hierarchy and simultaneously potentially transforms them. The articles in this special issue examine a number of innovations in South Asian contexts: the printing press's changing technology and its intersections with communal and language ideologies in India (Peterson); mobile telephony, gender, and kinship in West Bengal (Tenhunen); microcredit and its relationship with social capital in Bangladesh (Uddin); imbalanced sex ratios and the future of marriage payments in north-western India (Jeffery); and how alternative dispute resolution as a social innovation affects battered young wives' life situation options in Sylhet, Bangladesh (Ashrafun and Säävälä). These case studies give insights into how the deeply engrained cultural models and values affect the forms that an innovation process can take. In a social field, actors are not situated symmetrically vis-à-vis an innovation. In South Asian societies that are starkly hierarchical and holistic, innovations may have unpredictable sociocultural repercussions.

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Section: Innovation In Whose Interest?mentioning

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Innovation: transforming hierarchies in South Asia

Säävälä

Tenhunen

2014

Contemporary South Asia

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“…varieties of the ‘Pop Idol’ format) (Horst and Miller : 27), and also the offering of specific services targeted to local demands such as ‘call me’ texts in Jamaica ( ibid . 2007: 28) and the introduction by a Middle‐eastern company offering mobile services in Indonesia of GSM with a ‘ kiblah indicator’ pointing out the direction to Mecca on handsets (Barendregt : 161). Digital‐capitalism, thus, simultaneously situates mobile phones and their users in sets of trans‐local and even transnational capitalist relations, offers scope for creating highly personalised and localised ‘youthful mobilities’, and, in doing so, affects relations of belonging at various scales.…”

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“…Several authors have commented on the generational specific ways in which young people have appropriated mobile technologies (e.g. Barendregt ). Drawing on Bayat (: 31), we argue that young people's use of mobile devices and digital media has become an important part of ‘experiencing and developing a particular consciousness about being young, about youthfulness’.…”

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Enacting nationalism through youthful mobilities? Youth, mobile phones and digital capitalism in aLao‐Vietnamese borderland

Huijsmans

Lan²

2015

Nations and Nationalism

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Mobile phone use has become a defining feature of what it means to be young, and the relatively remote Lao‐Vietnamese borderland area that is the focus of this study is no exception. Drawing on Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, this article investigates the interplay between the everyday styles of being young, the forces of digital capitalism and the enactment of nationalism. We do this with a focus on ethnic minority youth's appropriation of the mobile services offered by Viettel, the most popular mobile services provider in the study area and owned by the Vietnamese Ministry of Defence. We suggest that the everyday performances of being young, revolving around the mobile phone, are affected by the forces of digital capitalism. We further suggest that the cultural context of Viettel's digital capitalism is embedded in a fabric of Vietnamese nationalism, leading ethnic minority youth, consciously and unconsciously, to enact nationalism through their everyday styles of being young.

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“…Furthermore, it spotlights a blind spot in the growing body of research that explores the role of mobile information technology (IT) in people's lives (Castells et al 2007;Akiyoshi and Ono 2008;Barendregt 2008;Donner 2008;Goggin 2008;He 2008;Ling 2008;Ureta 2008). The large majority of contemporary research on mobile IT use is only concerned with a single technology, the mobile phone.…”

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Cultivating Interaction Ubiquity at Work

Sørensen

2010

UTIS

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There is limited debate on what "ubiquity" in ubiquitous computing implies, in particular in regard to technological affordances connecting people. The aim of this article is to explore the question: What is the role of technologically embedded assumptions in the cultivation of interaction ubiquity at work? Distinguishing between the embedded support for managing ongoing interaction relationships-as opposed to a series of interaction encounters-and the support for prioritizing interactions-as opposed to priorities per se-yields four analytical categories of affordances: connectors, filters, mediators, and coordinators. These four categories are illustrated through four case studies of mobile working. The author argues that successful cultivation of interaction ubiquity at work relies critically on a portfolio approach wherein the technology is seen as playing a more active role in the management of interaction beyond the simple standardized technical connection.

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Sex, Cannibals, and the Language of Cool: Indonesian Tales of the Phone and Modernity

Cited by 34 publications

References 15 publications

Innovation: transforming hierarchies in South Asia

Innovation: transforming hierarchies in South Asia

Enacting nationalism through youthful mobilities? Youth, mobile phones and digital capitalism in aLao‐Vietnamese borderland

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