A Village Goes Mobile
Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India
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ISBN:
9780190923143
Publication date:
11/06/2018
Paperback
216 pages
Price: 495.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780190923143
Publication date:
11/06/2018
Paperback
216 pages
Sirpa Tenhunen
Rights: OUP USA (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Sirpa Tenhunen
Description
In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the smartphone. She here analyzes how mobile telephones emerged as multidimensional objects which, in addition to enabling telephone conversations, facilitated status aspirations, internet access, and entertainment practices. She explores how this multifaceted use of mobile phones has affected agency and power dynamics in economic, political, and social relationships, and how these new social constellations relate to culture and development.
In eight chapters, Tenhunen asks such questions as: Who benefits from mobile telephony and how? Can people use mobile phones to change their lives, or does phone use merely amplify existing social patterns and power relationships? Can mobile telephony induce development? Going beyond the case of West Bengal, Tenhunen develops a framework to understand how new media mediates social processes within interrelated social spheres and local hierarchies by relating, media-saturated forms of interaction to pre-existing contexts.
About the Author
Sirpa Tenhunen is an anthropologist who has carried out fieldwork in rural and urban India. In addition to the appropriation of mobile technology, her research interests cover gender and politics in India. She is currently Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki.
Sirpa Tenhunen
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Theorizing phone use contexts and mediation
Chapter 3 Why mobile phones became ubiquitous: remediation and socialities
Chapter 4 Mobile telephony, economy and social logistics
Chapter 5 Mediating gender: mobile phones and women's agency
Chapter 6 Mediating conflict: mobile telephony and politics
Chapter 7 Smartphones, caste, and intersectionalities
Chapter 8 Conclusions
Sirpa Tenhunen
Sirpa Tenhunen
Description
In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the smartphone. She here analyzes how mobile telephones emerged as multidimensional objects which, in addition to enabling telephone conversations, facilitated status aspirations, internet access, and entertainment practices. She explores how this multifaceted use of mobile phones has affected agency and power dynamics in economic, political, and social relationships, and how these new social constellations relate to culture and development.
In eight chapters, Tenhunen asks such questions as: Who benefits from mobile telephony and how? Can people use mobile phones to change their lives, or does phone use merely amplify existing social patterns and power relationships? Can mobile telephony induce development? Going beyond the case of West Bengal, Tenhunen develops a framework to understand how new media mediates social processes within interrelated social spheres and local hierarchies by relating, media-saturated forms of interaction to pre-existing contexts.
About the Author
Sirpa Tenhunen is an anthropologist who has carried out fieldwork in rural and urban India. In addition to the appropriation of mobile technology, her research interests cover gender and politics in India. She is currently Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki.
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Theorizing phone use contexts and mediation
Chapter 3 Why mobile phones became ubiquitous: remediation and socialities
Chapter 4 Mobile telephony, economy and social logistics
Chapter 5 Mediating gender: mobile phones and women's agency
Chapter 6 Mediating conflict: mobile telephony and politics
Chapter 7 Smartphones, caste, and intersectionalities
Chapter 8 Conclusions
