TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foster,Robert J.
AU  - Horst,Heather
TI  - The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Islands Perspectives
T2  - Pacific Series
SN  - 9781760462093
AV  - HE8620.7 .M673 2018 
U1  - 384.099 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Canberra
PB  - ANU Press
KW  - Telecommunication-Pacific Area
KW  - Information technology-Pacific Area
KW  - Consumption (Economics)-Pacific Area
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. A Handset Dangling in a Doorway: Mobile Phone Sharing in a Rural Sepik Village (Papua New Guinea) -- 2. HIV, Phone Friends and Affective Technology in Papua New Guinea -- 3. Toby and 'the Mobile System': Apocalypse and Salvation in Papua New Guinea's Wireless Network -- 4. Creating Consumer-Citizens: Competition, Tradition and the Moral Order of the Mobile Telecommunications Industry in Fiji -- 5. 'Working the Mobile': Giving and Spending Phone Credit in Port Vila, Vanuatu -- 6. Top-Up: The Moral Economy of Prepaid Mobile Phone Subscriptions -- Discussion -- Affective Technologies in the Age of Creative Destruction -- Transforming Place, Time and Person?: Mobile Telephones and Changing Moral Economies in the Western Pacific
N2  - The moral economy of mobile phones implies a field of shifting relations among consumers, companies and state actors, who all have their own ideas about what is good, fair and just. These ideas inform the ways in which consumers acquire and use mobile phones; companies promote and sell subscriptions; and regulation from state actors
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