Message in a mobile = Risālah fī jawāl = Risaala fi jawaal : mixed-messages, tales of missing and mobile communities at the University of Khartoum /

A detailed, meticulous ethnographic study on mobile phone use among Nuba students at the University of Khartoum in Sudan.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lamoureaux, Siri, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bamenda, Cameroon : Leiden : Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group ; African Studies Centre, 2011.
Temas:
Cell phones > Social aspects > Sudan > Khartoum.
College students > Social networks > Sudan > Khartoum.
Nubians > Sudan > Khartoum > Social life and customs.
Étudiants > Réseaux sociaux > Soudan > Khartoum.
Nubiens > Soudan > Khartoum > Mœurs et coutumes.
Téléphones cellulaires > Aspect social > Soudan > Khartoum.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Mobile & Wireless Communications.
Cell phones > Social aspects
College students > Social networks
Sudan > Khartoum
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  • Mobile phones and network society
  • Situating the study: Initial research question
  • New media
  • new communities
  • Working with youth cultures: Community, identity and autonomy
  • Re-directing my research
  • Interdisciplinarity: Organizing my ideas
  • 2. Memories of Mekwar: Historical identities and student diversity
  • Pre-colonial history
  • Center vs. periphery
  • Ethno-linguistic peripheries and national identity
  • Processes of migration: The making of the urban capital
  • National Islamic Front (NIF) and the new Islamic state
  • What does it mean to be Sudanese?
  • 3. Discourse and identity: Texting in the Sudanese communicative ecology
  • `Keeping in touch': Sudanese communicative style
  • Texting as a semi-oral medium
  • Discursive identities
  • Classical Arabic and Sudanese colloquial Arabic in texting
  • Space for alternative identities
  • 4. Nuba and urban identity: The discourse of resistance and the practice of integration
  • Joseph's story
  • "Nuba problem": Discourses of othering
  • On becoming "Arab"
  • Research question revisited
  • Lessons in methodology: The Karko students
  • Krongo picnic
  • Paths of acculturation: contradiction of ideology and practice
  • Flexible identities: Krongawi
  • Nubaawi
  • Sudaani
  • 5. Text message poetry (shi'ar iliktrooni): The broader effects of personal practices
  • Alessandro's story
  • sending and receiving of poetic messages
  • Poetry in the Sudanese context
  • `social circulation' of SMS poetry and the `mediation' of `missing'
  • Intertextual texting
  • Recontextualization and the public imagination
  • 6. Love in the time of mobility: Careful appropriations and courtship negotiations
  • Leila's story
  • Public vs. private in Sudan
  • Women's space in the Hamad family's home
  • Islamic fundamentalist Discourse on women.

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