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Digitizing Family

Geoffrey Hobbis
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      At once a digital ethnography of smartphones and a classically conceived village-based ethnography, this book relocates the study of digital technologies to rural Melanesia, with a focus on the Lau of Malaita, Soloman Islands. In this ‘technography’, Geoffrey Hobbis studies the materiality and functional attributes of smartphones and their object biographies—modes of acquisition, maintenance, uses, limitations and the problems specific to this region in adopting and adapting smartphones in everyday life. As he examines the various uses of smartphones, as both telephone and multimedia device, Hobbis also explores the social and cultural transformations, the hopes and uncertainties, with which they are associated. Ultimately, in bringing together a study of digital technologies with classical anthropological theory, The Digitizing Family develops a theory of smartphones as kinship technologies and supercompositional objects.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Geoffrey Hobbis EAN: 9783030349288 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 542 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-02-08 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Melanesia, Media studies, Sociology: family and relationships, Social and cultural anthropology

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      Geoffrey Hobbis is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie, France, and lectured at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
      At once a digital ethnography of smartphones and a classically conceived village-based ethnography, this book relocates the study of digital technologies to rural Melanesia, with a focus on the Lau of Malaita, Soloman Islands. In this ‘technography’, Geoffrey Hobbis studies the materiality and functional attributes of smartphones and their object biographies—modes of acquisition, maintenance, uses, limitations and the problems specific to this region in adopting and adapting smartphones in everyday life. As he examines the various uses of smartphones, as both telephone and multimedia device, Hobbis also explores the social and cultural transformations, the hopes and uncertainties, with which they are associated. Ultimately, in bringing together a study of digital technologies with classical anthropological theory, The Digitizing Family develops a theory of smartphones as kinship technologies and supercompositional objects.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Geoffrey Hobbis EAN: 9783030349288 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 542 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-02-08 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Melanesia, Media studies, Sociology: family and relationships, Social and cultural anthropology

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      Geoffrey Hobbis is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie, France, and lectured at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

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