ABSTRACT
Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones offers a detailed ethnographic and anthropological examination of the social, cultural, linguistic and material aspects of cell phones. With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars, this is a truly global collection with rural and urban examples from communities across the Global North and South. Linking the use of cell phones to contemporary discussions about representation, mediation and subjectivity, the book investigates how this increasingly ubiquitous technology challenges the boundaries of privacy and selfhood, raising new questions about how we communicate.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
Origins
chapter 1|19 pages
The slow road to Tartarus
chapter 2|17 pages
Objects of mobility
part II|134 pages
Uses
chapter 4|27 pages
Medialects in the creation of Mayan peer cultures
chapter 7|21 pages
Safety, sensemaking, and solidarity
part III|47 pages
Ends of life