Mobile Phones, Identity and Discursive Intimacy

This paper deals with the sociocultural effects of mobile phones in Philippine society. In particular it looks at how mobile phones have affected notions of identity and the rise of the sexual subject. It also deals with the political possibilities and implication of this new communicative technolog...

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Published inHuman technology Vol. 1; no. 1; pp. 23 - 44
Main Author Pertierra, Raul
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Jyväskylä Centre of Sociological Research (NGO) 30.04.2005
Centre of Sociological Research, Szczecin, Poland
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Cell phones
computer-mediated-interactive-communication-technology (CMICT)
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cyber-world
post-corporeal
scribed spaces
texting subjects
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Summary:This paper deals with the sociocultural effects of mobile phones in Philippine society. In particular it looks at how mobile phones have affected notions of identity and the rise of the sexual subject. It also deals with the political possibilities and implication of this new communicative technology in a society with previously poorly developed telephonic and other communicative technologies. Mobile phones allow absent subjects to exercise a daily presence in their communities of origin. This absent presence generates virtual subjects interacting primarily via the mobile phone.
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ISSN:1795-6889
1795-6889
DOI:10.17011/ht/urn.2005124