03729 am 22006133u 450 991027502400332120230315235215.01-76046-209-8(CKB)4100000004537873(MiAaPQ)EBC5428257(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28112(EXLCZ)99410000000453787320180709d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe moral economy of mobile phones Pacific Islands perspectives /edited by Robert J. Foster and Heather A. HorstANU Press2018Acton, Australian Capital Territory :ANU Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (162 pages)Pacific Series1-76046-208-X Includes bibliographical references.A Handset Dangling in a Doorway: Mobile Phone Sharing in a Rural Sepik Village (Papua New Guinea) / David Lipset -- HIV, Phone Friends and Affective Technology in Papua New Guinea / Holly Wardlow -- Toby and 'the Mobile System': Apocalypse and Salvation in Papua New Guinea's Wireless Network / Dan Jorgensen -- Creating Consumer-Citizens: Competition, Tradition and the Moral Order of the Mobile Telecommunications Industry in Fiji / Heather A. Horst -- 'Working the Mobile': Giving and Spending Phone Credit in Port Vila, Vanuatu / Daniela Kraemer -- Top-Up: The Moral Economy of Prepaid Mobile Phone Subscriptions / Robert J. Foster -- Discussion. Affective Technologies in the Age of Creative Destruction / Jeffrey Mantz -- Transforming Place, Time and Person?: Mobile Telephones and Changing Moral Economies in the Western Pacific / Margaret Jolly.The moral economy of mobile phones implies a field of shifting relations among consumers, companies and state actors, all of whom have their own ideas about what is good, fair and just. These ideas inform the ways in which, for example, consumers acquire and use mobile phones; companies promote and sell voice, SMS and data subscriptions; and state actors regulate both everyday use of mobile phones and market activity around mobile phones. Ambivalence and disagreement about who owes what to whom is thus an integral feature of the moral economy of mobile phones. This volume identifies and evaluates the stakes at play in the moral economy of mobile phones. The six main chapters consider ethnographic cases from Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Vanuatu. The volume also includes a brief introduction with background information on the recent 'digital revolution' in these countries and two closing commentaries that reflect on the significance of the chapters for our understanding of global capitalism and the contemporary Pacific.Pacific series.TelecommunicationPacific AreaInformation technologyPacific AreaConsumption (Economics)Pacific Areamobile phonespacificdigital technologyanthropologyDigicelFijiPapua New GuineaVodafoneTelecommunicationInformation technologyConsumption (Economics)384.099Foster Robert John1957-edt51926Foster Robert John1957-,Horst Heather A.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910275024003321The moral economy of mobile phones3053566UNINA