Zeitschrift für Ethnologie: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 138.2013

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 138.2013

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Titel:: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 138.2013

Erscheinungsjahr:: 2013

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Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 138, 2013, Heft 1

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Titel:: The Mobile Phone in Siberia: The Impact of a New Communication Technology on the Everyday Culture of a Postsocialist Society

Sonstige Person:: Schiffauer, Leonie

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The Mobile Phone in Siberia: The Impact of a New Communication Technology on the Everyday Culture of a Postsocialist Society Leonie Schiffauer Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane. Cambridge CB23RF Abstract. This paper explores the interdependency between a new technology and society in Siberia. It is argued that the use of the mobile phone must be analyzed with regard to the cultural context. The author explains the mobile phoneâs significance through its central function: the quick and easy access to social networks. The technology supports the organization of reciprocity within these networks and affects forms of communication and social interaction. The use of the mobile phone in Siberia under lines the importance of social networks and their specific structure in postsocialist societies. [postsocialism, social networks, mobile phone, Siberia, reciprocity] Within just a few years the mobile phone has spread worldwide and has become an integral part of our modern network society (Castells 1996:469â478), a society âwhose social structure and social practices are organized around microelectronics- based networks of information and communicationâ (Castells et al. 2007:258). In non-Western societies in particular the mobile phone is in many places the first non- unidirectional communication technology that a majority of people has access to. In this paper I want to argue that the mobile phoneâs use is deeply embedded in its cul- tural context, for it is closely associated with state structures, legal systems, social pat- cerns and economic factors. In order to understand the application of the technology one has to be familiar with the environment in which it is used. Not only is the tech- nology adapted to local realities; it also has an impact on them. A global technology like the mobile phone does not imply cultural homogenization (Appadurai 1997:11), Decause it stands in a complex interrelation with its environment. The idea to systematically investigate the use of the mobile phone I had during my studies at Irkutsk University. The ubiquity of the mobile phone and the significance that was attributed to the technology surprised me and in several instances I was fasci- nated by the way it was used. To collect data for my masterâs thesis I conducted two months of ethnographic field research on the use of the mobile phone among Buryats in the Southeast of Russia in a town located in the autonomous Aginsk district near che border with Mongolia. This paper summarizes the main results of my thesis. Par- (icipant observation was an important method during my research as the presence of Zeitschrift fÃ¼r Ethnologie 138 (2013) 23-36 & 2014 Dietrich Reimer Verlag

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