(Im)mobile phones

This qualitative study examines the role of the mobile phone in negotiating the day-to-day experience of social immobility for young users in a low-income area in a small town in South Africa. What does the mobile phone become when one is not part of a mobile globalised elite, but poor, unemployed...

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Main Authors: Alette Schoon, Larry Strelitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Johannesburg 2022-10-01
Series:Communicare
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Online Access:https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1636