Enacting nationalism through youthful mobilities? Youth, mobile phones and digital capitalism in a Lao-Vietnamese borderland
Enacting nationalism through youthful mobilities? Youth, mobile phones and digital capitalism in a Lao-Vietnamese borderland
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DOI：
10.1111/nana.12095
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发表时间：
2015-04-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Tran Thi Ha Lan
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作者：
Huijsmans, Roy;Tran Thi Ha Lan
使用移动的电话已经成为年轻人的一个定义性特征，本研究关注的相对偏远的老挝-越南边境地区也不例外。借鉴本尼迪克特安德森的想象社区，本文探讨了年轻人的日常风格，数字资本主义的力量和民族主义的制定之间的相互作用。我们这样做的重点是少数民族青年的拨款的移动的服务提供的Viettel，最流行的移动的服务提供商在研究领域和越南国防部拥有。我们认为，年轻人的日常表现，围绕着移动的手机，受到数字资本主义力量的影响。我们进一步认为，Viettel的数字资本主义的文化背景是嵌入在越南民族主义的织物，导致少数民族青年，自觉和不自觉地，制定民族主义通过他们的日常风格是年轻的。
Mobile phone use has become a defining feature of what it means to be young, and the relatively remote Lao-Vietnamese borderland area that is the focus of this study is no exception. Drawing on Benedict Anderson's ImaginedCommunities, this article investigates the interplay between the everyday styles of being young, the forces of digital capitalism and the enactment of nationalism. We do this with a focus on ethnic minority youth's appropriation of the mobile services offered by Viettel, the most popular mobile services provider in the study area and owned by the Vietnamese Ministry of Defence. We suggest that the everyday performances of being young, revolving around the mobile phone, are affected by the forces of digital capitalism. We further suggest that the cultural context of Viettel's digital capitalism is embedded in a fabric of Vietnamese nationalism, leading ethnic minority youth, consciously and unconsciously, to enact nationalism through their everyday styles of being young.