Name: Sociality Revisited? the Use of the Internet and Mobile Phones in Urban Cameroon (en Inglés)
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Author: Frei, Bettina Anja
ISBN: 9789956728411

portada Sociality Revisited? the Use of the Internet and Mobile Phones in Urban Cameroon (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Bettina Anja Frei

Editorial

Langaa RPCID

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

548

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm

Peso

0.79 kg.

ISBN13

9789956728411

Categorías

Estudios sobre medios
Comunidades urbanas
Materia antropología social y cultural etnográfica

Sociality Revisited? the Use of the Internet and Mobile Phones in Urban Cameroon (en Inglés)

Bettina Anja Frei (Autor) · Langaa RPCID · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Sociality Revisited? the Use of the Internet and Mobile Phones in Urban Cameroon (en Inglés)"

This book draws on the perspectives of non-migrants and urban youth in Bamenda, in the Northwest region of Cameroon, as well as on the views of Cameroonian migrants in Switzerland, to explore the meaning and role of New Media in the negotiation of sociality in transnational migration. New Media facilitated connectedness serve as a privileged lens through which Cameroonians, home and away, scrutinise and mediate sociality. In this rich ethnography, Bettina Frei describes how the internet and mobile phones are adopted by migrants and their non-migrant counterparts in order to maintain transnational relationships, and how the specific medialities of these communication technologies in turn impact on transnational sociality. Contrary to popular presumptions that New Media are experienced as mainly connecting and enabling, this study reveals that in a transnational context in particular, New Media serve to mediate tensions in transnational social ties. The expectations of being connected go hand in hand with an awareness of social and geographical distance and separation.