“It mixes up everything, music, pictures, radio”: the domestication of the mobile phone in a low-income neighbourhood”
Keywords:
Mobile phone. Domestication. Consumption. Appropriation. Technology.Abstract
During twelve months of fieldwork in a low-income neighbourhood in the city of Florianópolis carried out for my PhD, in the Brazilian Southern state of Santa Catarina, I was able to notice the growing consumption of mobile phones, as well as its influence on the social life of the members of that community. In this paper, which finds its theorethical frame in the updating of the concept of domestication – now applied to mobile technologies – I analyze, through an ethnographic approach, the ways by which mobile phones are appropriated, not without difficulty, to the everyday life of the dwellers of Morro São Jorge. The paper, besides focusing on a theme that has not yet received much attention in the field of cyberculture studies – that is, the appropriation of technology among lowincome classes – not only draws attention to the consumption of technology among young people, but also among the elderly.Downloads
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