Title Mobile secrets : youth, intimacy, and the politics of pretense in Mozambique / Julie Soleil Archambault

Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: living, not merely surviving -- The communication landscape -- Display and disguise -- Crime and carelessness -- Love and deceit -- Sex and money -- Truth and willful blindness -- Conclusion: mobile phones and the demands of intimacy Summary In just over a decade, mobile phones have become part of everyday life almost everywhere, radically transforming how we access and exchange information. Many have argued that in Africa, where most have gone from no phone to mobile phone, this improved access to technology and information will usher in socio-economic development, changing everything from health services to electoral participation to engagement with the global economy. Julie Soleil Archambault reveals how better access to information is not necessarily a good thing, and offers a complete rethinking of how we understand uncertainty, truth, and ignorance. By engaging with young adults in a Mozambique suburb who have adopted mobile phones in their daily lives, Archambault shows that they have become necessary tools for pretense and falsification, allowing youths not only to mitigate but also court, produce, and sustain uncertainty in their efforts to create fulfilling lives in the harsh world of postwar Mozambique. She explores how telecommunication opens up new virtual spaces of sociality in which people can imagine and enact alternate lives. As Mobile Secrets shows, new technologies have not only facilitated access to information in Mozambique, but they have also helped mute social conflicts, allowing everyone to feign ignorance about the workings of the postwar intimate economy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Youth -- Mozambique -- Inhambane -- Social life and customs Cell phones -- Social aspects -- Mozambique -- Inhambane Cell phone etiquette -- Mozambique -- Inhambane Courtship -- Mozambique -- Inhambane Communication and technology -- Mozambique SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Cell phone etiquette Cell phones -- Social aspects Communication and technology Courtship Manners and customs Youth -- Social life and customs Jugendkultur Jeunesse -- Mozambique -- Inhambane (Mozambique ; province) -- Moeurs et coutumes. Téléphonie mobile -- Aspect social -- Mozambique -- Inhambane (Mozambique ; province) Séduction -- Mozambique -- Inhambane (Mozambique ; province) Communication et technologie -- Mozambique -- Inhambane (Mozambique ; province) SUBJECT Inhambane (Mozambique) -- Social life and customs Subject Mozambique Mozambique -- Inhambane Inhambane (Mozambique ; province) -- Moeurs et coutumes. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226447605 022644760X

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