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oapen-20.500.12657-299612024-03-25T09:51:09Z The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones J. Foster, Robert A. Horst, Heather mobile phones pacific digital technology anthropology Digicel Fiji Papua New Guinea Vodafone thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TJ Electronics and communications engineering::TJK Communications engineering / telecommunications::TJKT Telephone technology::TJKT1 Mobile phone technology The 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. 2018-06-15 00:00:00 2020-04-01T12:40:47Z 2020-04-01T12:40:47Z 2018 book 651175 OCN: 1052113724 9781760462086 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29961 eng application/pdf n/a 651175.pdf https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/pacific-series/moral-economy-mobile-phones ANU Press 10.22459/MEMP.05.2018 10.22459/MEMP.05.2018 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781760462086 162 open access
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The 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.
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