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dc.contributor.editorJ. Foster, Robert
dc.contributor.editorA. Horst, Heather
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-15 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:40:47Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T12:40:47Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier651175
dc.identifierOCN: 1052113724en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29961
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TJ Electronics and communications engineering::TJK Communications engineering / telecommunications::TJKT Telephone technology::TJKT1 Mobile phone technologyen_US
dc.subject.othermobile phones
dc.subject.otherpacific
dc.subject.otherdigital technology
dc.subject.otheranthropology
dc.subject.otherDigicel
dc.subject.otherFiji
dc.subject.otherPapua New Guinea
dc.subject.otherVodafone
dc.titleThe Moral Economy of Mobile Phones
dc.title.alternativePacific Islands Perspectives
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.22459/MEMP.05.2018
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.relation.isbn9781760462086
oapen.pages162
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Digicel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digicel; Fiji - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji; Mobile phone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone; Papua New Guinea - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea; Vodafone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodafone
oapen.identifier.ocn1052113724


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