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- Title
Mobile Musics, Mobile Technologies: Engaging the Cell Phone in a West African Context.
- Authors
FRIESEN, CARINNA
- Abstract
Scholarship on cell phones and related devices has contributed useful insights into mobile media practices, but several assumptions do not hold when considered within alternative contexts such as rural West Africa. Given the highly engaged social environment of Burkina Faso, this paper questions the relevance of theories that over-emphasize individualized and isolating listening experiences. I examine how villagers not only adopt communal listening practices, but also allow for social interaction during personal listening. It also explores how the particularities of cell phones as mobile media devices highlight new technologies that are creatively or pragmatically developed and adapted within particular contexts.
- Subjects
MOBILE music; SOCIAL context; SOCIAL interaction; COMMUNITY relations; MOBILE communication systems
- Publication
MUSICultures, 2016, Vol 43, Issue 1, p16
- ISSN
1920-4213
- Publication type
Article