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The Digitizing Family : An Ethnography of Melanesian Smartphones.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (226 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783030349295
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 303.48330995
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Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Digitizing the Melanesian Family -- Leapfrogging Technology -- An Anthropology of Digital Technologies -- The Diffusion of Contagious Ideas -- An Ethnography of Digital Technology -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Methodological Notes -- Becoming Familiar in Gwou'ulu -- The Ethnographer and the Mobile Phone Research Protocol -- A Different Sort of Kinship Chart -- References -- Part II: The Many Lives and Deaths of the Melanesian Smartphone -- Chapter 3: A Sketch of the Many Births, Lives and Deaths of Smartphones -- Getting a Smartphone -- Losing a Smartphone -- Using a Smartphone -- Gendered Divisions -- Generational Divide -- Educational Differences -- References -- Chapter 4: A Digital Swiss Army Knife -- The Main Functions of Popular Smartphone -- The 1TOK and Jenny TV as "Smarter Mobile Phones" -- A Communication Technology -- Telephones -- Texting -- Internet -- Multimedia and Entertainment -- Music Player -- Camera, Visual Display, and Movie Player -- Television -- Back to the Basics -- Flashlight -- Watches and Calendars -- Calculator -- Beyond Universals -- References -- Part III: SIM Card Culture and Digitizing Kin Networks -- Chapter 5: Digitizing Social Networks -- A Brief Sketch of the Central Technological Properties of Mobile Telephony -- Villagers' Smartphones and Phone Books -- Emily -- Victoria -- Philip -- Florian -- Telephony, Kin Networks and the Urban-Rural Divide -- Digitizing Kin Connections -- Access to Biomedical Care -- Gender-Based Violence and Women's Support Networks -- Funeral Arrangements -- Conflict Management -- Remittance Requests -- Transforming Distant Relations Through Mobile Telephony? -- References -- Chapter 6: Telephonic Immorality and Uncertainty -- Sexually Promiscuous Telephony.
Smartphone Magic -- Agalo and Malevolent Sorcery -- Contagious Magic -- Telephonic Contagion -- Love Magic -- Cautionary Tales -- Telephonic Anxieties in Accelerated Socialities -- References -- Part IV: MicroSD Culture and Digital Parenting -- Chapter 7: The Muvi Haos -- Muvi Haos -- The Demise of the Muvi Haos and the Rise of Private Viewing -- From Public to Private Viewing -- References -- Chapter 8: The Babysitting Smartphone -- Pikinini Tumas -- Raising Children: An Issue of Relevant Social Groups -- A Different Kind of Sunday School? -- Educational Conundrums -- Fathers as Babysitters -- Ramo and Rambo -- Kissing Movies -- Sources of Friction -- Mothers as Babysitters -- Nemo Not Rambo -- Dancing Not Kissing -- Guiding Visions and Competing Futures -- References -- Part V: Towards a Theory of Smartphones as Kinship Tools -- Chapter 9: The Sociotechnical System of Melanesian Smartphones -- Level 1: The Materials upon Which Technologies Act -- Level 2: "The Forces That Move Objects and Transform Matter" -- Level 3: The Objects That Operate on the Materials Themselves -- Level 4: The Gestures People Use to Make the Objects Work -- Levels 5 and 6: Knowledge That Puts Objects to Work -- References -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Towards the Supercompositional Object -- Family Life in Digital Perils -- Beyond Universalities: Smartphones as Rural Kinship Technologies -- Moral Anxieties in Medias Res -- Smartphones as Supercompositional Objects -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Digitizing the Melanesian Family -- Leapfrogging Technology -- An Anthropology of Digital Technologies -- The Diffusion of Contagious Ideas -- An Ethnography of Digital Technology -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Methodological Notes -- Becoming Familiar in Gwou'ulu -- The Ethnographer and the Mobile Phone Research Protocol -- A Different Sort of Kinship Chart -- References -- Part II: The Many Lives and Deaths of the Melanesian Smartphone -- Chapter 3: A Sketch of the Many Births, Lives and Deaths of Smartphones -- Getting a Smartphone -- Losing a Smartphone -- Using a Smartphone -- Gendered Divisions -- Generational Divide -- Educational Differences -- References -- Chapter 4: A Digital Swiss Army Knife -- The Main Functions of Popular Smartphone -- The 1TOK and Jenny TV as "Smarter Mobile Phones" -- A Communication Technology -- Telephones -- Texting -- Internet -- Multimedia and Entertainment -- Music Player -- Camera, Visual Display, and Movie Player -- Television -- Back to the Basics -- Flashlight -- Watches and Calendars -- Calculator -- Beyond Universals -- References -- Part III: SIM Card Culture and Digitizing Kin Networks -- Chapter 5: Digitizing Social Networks -- A Brief Sketch of the Central Technological Properties of Mobile Telephony -- Villagers' Smartphones and Phone Books -- Emily -- Victoria -- Philip -- Florian -- Telephony, Kin Networks and the Urban-Rural Divide -- Digitizing Kin Connections -- Access to Biomedical Care -- Gender-Based Violence and Women's Support Networks -- Funeral Arrangements -- Conflict Management -- Remittance Requests -- Transforming Distant Relations Through Mobile Telephony? -- References -- Chapter 6: Telephonic Immorality and Uncertainty -- Sexually Promiscuous Telephony.

Smartphone Magic -- Agalo and Malevolent Sorcery -- Contagious Magic -- Telephonic Contagion -- Love Magic -- Cautionary Tales -- Telephonic Anxieties in Accelerated Socialities -- References -- Part IV: MicroSD Culture and Digital Parenting -- Chapter 7: The Muvi Haos -- Muvi Haos -- The Demise of the Muvi Haos and the Rise of Private Viewing -- From Public to Private Viewing -- References -- Chapter 8: The Babysitting Smartphone -- Pikinini Tumas -- Raising Children: An Issue of Relevant Social Groups -- A Different Kind of Sunday School? -- Educational Conundrums -- Fathers as Babysitters -- Ramo and Rambo -- Kissing Movies -- Sources of Friction -- Mothers as Babysitters -- Nemo Not Rambo -- Dancing Not Kissing -- Guiding Visions and Competing Futures -- References -- Part V: Towards a Theory of Smartphones as Kinship Tools -- Chapter 9: The Sociotechnical System of Melanesian Smartphones -- Level 1: The Materials upon Which Technologies Act -- Level 2: "The Forces That Move Objects and Transform Matter" -- Level 3: The Objects That Operate on the Materials Themselves -- Level 4: The Gestures People Use to Make the Objects Work -- Levels 5 and 6: Knowledge That Puts Objects to Work -- References -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Towards the Supercompositional Object -- Family Life in Digital Perils -- Beyond Universalities: Smartphones as Rural Kinship Technologies -- Moral Anxieties in Medias Res -- Smartphones as Supercompositional Objects -- References -- Index.

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