From the “'pai-de-santo' mobile phone” to the “payphone mobile phone”: humor, conflict and new sociocultural practices in the appropriation of mobile phones by low-income groups
This paper explores an issue rarely discussed in ciberculture studies: the use of mobile phones by low-income groups. Using the ethnographic method, I analyse the strategies employed by the dwellers of Morro São Jorge to exercise – rather precariously – their right to communication. I argue that suc...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2010 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repositorio: | Intexto (Porto Alegre) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/11134 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/11134 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Telefones celulares. Apropriação. Grupos populares. Mobile phones. Appropriation. Low-income groups. Teléfonos celulares. Apropiación. Clases populares. |
| Sumario: | This paper explores an issue rarely discussed in ciberculture studies: the use of mobile phones by low-income groups. Using the ethnographic method, I analyse the strategies employed by the dwellers of Morro São Jorge to exercise – rather precariously – their right to communication. I argue that such strategies engender new sociocultural practices that update older ones, especially regarding the use of public payphones and in the practice of making collect calls. |
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