LEADER 04912nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910821090303321 005 20240313162147.0 010 $a1-283-41275-6 010 $a9786613412751 010 $a9956-726-32-X 010 $a9956-726-19-2 010 $a9956-726-45-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000081484 035 $a(EBL)1135150 035 $a(OCoLC)817054249 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000671576 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11379067 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000671576 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10624603 035 $a(PQKB)11198438 035 $a(OCoLC)773216182 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21935 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1135150 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10524392 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL341275 035 $a(PPN)198682204 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1135150 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000081484 100 $a20120214d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a'Message in a mobile' $e[Risa?lah fi? jawa?l] = Risaala fi jawaal : mixed-messages, tales of missing and mobile communities at the University of Khatroum /$fSiri Lamoureaux 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBamenda, Cameroon $cLangaa ;$aLeiden $cAfrican Studies Centre$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (198 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-726-89-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Pictures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Mobile phones and network society; Situating the study: Initial research question; New media - new communities; Working with youth cultures: Community, identity and autonomy; Re-directing my research; Interdisciplinarity: Organizing my ideas; 2. Memories of Mekwar: Historical identities and student diversity; Pre-colonial history; Center vs. periphery; Ethno-linguistic peripheries and national identity; Processes of migration: The making of the urban capital 327 $aThe National Islamic Fromnt (NIF) and the new Islamic state What does it mean to be Sudanese?; 3. Discourse and identity: Texting in the Sudanese communicative ecology; ""Keeping in touch"": Sudanese communicative style; Texting as a semi-oral medium; Discursive identities; Classical Arabic and Sudanese Colloquial Arabic in texting; Space for alternative identities; 4. Nuba and urban identity: The discourse of resistance and the practice of integration; Joseph's story; The ""Nuba problem"": Discourses of othering; On becoming ""Arab""; Research question revisited 327 $aLessons in methodology: The Karko students The Krongo picnic; Paths of accumulation: Contradiction of ideology and practice; Flexible identites: Krongawi - Nubaawi - Sudaani; 5. Text message poetry (shi'ar iliktrooni): The broader effects of personal practices; Alessandro's story; The sending and receiving of poetic messages; Poetry in the Sudanese context; The 'social circulation' of SMS poetry and the 'mediation of 'missing'; Intertextual texting; Recontextualization and the public imagination; 6. Love in the time of mobility: Careful appropriations and courtship negotiations; Leila's story 327 $aPublic vs private in Sudan Women's space in the Hamad family's home; Islamic fundamentalist discourse on women; Courtship and social space: Maneuvering on the margins; The mobile phone and the semi-private social space for love; Romantic curiosities and moral crises; The space in-between: Being a ""good Muslim"" and a desiring individual; Leila sets an example; 7. Being ""modern"": From Shakespeare to chat room literacy; Fellah's story; The mobile phone is a technology and a symbol of modernity; English is a technology and a symbol of modernity; The Gulf is modern place; Coming from the Gulf 327 $aGlobalization of English and computer-mediated communication (CMC)Howglobal and local mingle in Sudanese - English texting; Belonging in a globalized world; 8. Conclusion; Appendix 1: Transcription conventions; Appendix 2: List of terms; References; Back cover 330 $aA detailed, meticulous ethnographic study on mobile phone use among Nuba students at the University of Khartoum in Sudan. 517 3 $aRisa?lah fi? jawa?l 517 3 $aRisaala fi jawaal 606 $aCell phones$xSocial aspects$zSudan$zKhartoum 606 $aCollege students$xSocial networks$zSudan$zKhartoum 606 $aNubians$zSudan$zKhartoum$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aCell phones$xSocial aspects 615 0$aCollege students$xSocial networks 615 0$aNubians$xSocial life and customs. 700 $aLamoureaux$b Siri$01096186 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821090303321 996 $aMessage in a mobile$93998064 997 $aUNINA