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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dyson, Laurel Evelyn
• Grant, Stephen
• Hendriks, Max

Titel

Framing the Indigenous Mobile Revolution

Ist Teil von

• Indigenous People and Mobile Technologies, 2015, p.15-36

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter examines the role of mobile telephony in rural communities in Papua New Guinea (PNG) with particular emphasis on the attitudes expressed by rural villagers. It reports on a threshold study, with research conducted during the earliest stages of mobile phone adoption in ten such villages in Madang Province. Traditional communication methods vary across PNG. In Madang Province, a key method involves drumming on a large, wooden drum or slit gong known locally as a garamut. An important part of the communicative ecology in many places is now mass media, although for most people even this is not available since they live in rural poverty without electricity supply, movie theatres or transmitters. Developing nations have experienced significant growth in mobile telecommunication markets, particularly since 2000, but the Pacific has been one of the last regions of the world to experience widespread mobile phone access and uptake.