LEADER 03729 am 22006133u 450 001 9910275024003321 005 20230315235215.0 010 $a1-76046-209-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000004537873 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5428257 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28112 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004537873 100 $a20180709d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe moral economy of mobile phones $ePacific Islands perspectives /$fedited by Robert J. Foster and Heather A. Horst 210 $cANU Press$d2018 210 1$aActon, Australian Capital Territory :$cANU Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (162 pages) 225 1 $aPacific Series 311 $a1-76046-208-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aA 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. 330 $aThe moral economy of mobile phones implies a field of shifting relations among consumers, companies and state actors, all of whom have their own ideas about what is good, fair and just. These ideas inform the ways in which, for example, consumers acquire and use mobile phones; companies promote and sell voice, SMS and data subscriptions; and state actors regulate both everyday use of mobile phones and market activity around mobile phones. Ambivalence and disagreement about who owes what to whom is thus an integral feature of the moral economy of mobile phones. This volume identifies and evaluates the stakes at play in the moral economy of mobile phones. The six main chapters consider ethnographic cases from Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Vanuatu. The volume also includes a brief introduction with background information on the recent 'digital revolution' in these countries and two closing commentaries that reflect on the significance of the chapters for our understanding of global capitalism and the contemporary Pacific. 410 0$aPacific series. 606 $aTelecommunication$zPacific Area 606 $aInformation technology$zPacific Area 606 $aConsumption (Economics)$zPacific Area 610 $amobile phones 610 $apacific 610 $adigital technology 610 $aanthropology 610 $aDigicel 610 $aFiji 610 $aPapua New Guinea 610 $aVodafone 615 0$aTelecommunication 615 0$aInformation technology 615 0$aConsumption (Economics) 676 $a384.099 700 $aFoster$b Robert John$f1957-$4edt$051926 702 $aFoster$b Robert John$f1957-, 702 $aHorst$b Heather A. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910275024003321 996 $aThe moral economy of mobile phones$93053566 997 $aUNINA