Collective appropriation and cooperative uses of mobile telephony among Burmese fishers
Collective appropriation and cooperative uses of mobile telephony among Burmese fishers
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DOI：
10.1177/0266666917719116
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发表时间：
2018-11-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Ling, Rich
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作者：
Aricat, Rajiv George;Ling, Rich
早期关于渔民使用手机的研究遵循了经济学的观点，主要侧重于获取市场价格信息。研究人员呼吁对这项技术的集体和合作使用进行调查。响应这些呼吁，我们探索了缅甸渔民在社会生活和商业领域使用手机的情况，主要涉及社区之间的信息寻求和共享。对缅甸三个地区的23名渔民的访谈表明，社会和商业以及以个人和社区为导向的使用都很普遍。移动电话帮助向有限数量的渔民，特别是船主和鱼贩提供有关价格和市场需求的信息。渔业劳动力阶层中的其他部分不再拥有这款手机的个人所有权，而是选择更多地以社区为基础的拨款。在渔民的社会经济地位和捕鱼模式的同时，出现了一幅关于使用和不使用手机的细微差别的图景。
Early research on mobile phone adoption among fishers followed an economistic perspective, focusing mainly on access to market price information. Researchers called for investigations into collective and cooperative uses of the technology. Responding to these calls, we explored Burmese fishers' use of mobile phones in the realms of social life and business, mainly related to information seeking and sharing among the community. Interviews with 23 fishers in three regions in Myanmar suggested that both social and commercial, as well as individual- and community-oriented, uses were prevalent. Mobile phones helped channel information on price and market demand among a limited number of fishers, especially the boat owners and fish dealers. The other segments in the fishing labor hierarchy desisted from individual ownership of the phone, while opting for a more community-based appropriation. A nuanced picture of use and non-use of mobiles emerged alongside fishers' socio-economic status and patterns of fishing.