The digitizing family : an ethnography of Melanesian smartphones / Geoffrey Hobbis.
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, Solomon Islands. In this 'technography', Geoffrey Hobbis studies the materiality...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2020 English/International |
| Summary: | 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, Solomon 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3030349284 9783030349288 3030349292 9783030349295 |