Mobile communication in the global south
Mobile communication in the global south
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南方国家的移动通信
作者：
Rich Ling;H. Horst
移动通信在世界大部分地区已经成为一种普遍现象。的确，手机用户比互联网用户还多。对于欧洲和北美大都市区以外的许多人来说，这实际上是他们第一次使用电子媒介互动。这是《新媒体与社会》特刊的序言，探讨了全球背景下的移动通信。通过对八篇位于南半球的文章的概述，我们描述了移动通信如何揭示了信息、挪用和发展的概念，以及它如何挑战并在许多情况下改变了性别概念。虽然手机重塑了性别互动的发展和微观动态，但它不一定是一个革命性的工具。现有的权力结构可能会重新安排，但它们仍然相当稳定。对全球南方移动通信的分析有助于我们理解围绕信息和通信技术的创新实践的兴起，反过来，使我们能够发展理论来理解这些新兴的经验现实。
Mobile communication has become a common phenomenon in most parts of the world. There are indeed more mobile subscriptions than there are people who use the internet. For many people outside of the metropolitan areas of Europe and North America, this is literally their first use of electronically mediated interaction. This preface to the special issue of New Media & Society examines mobile communication in a global context. Through an overview of eight articles situated in the global south, we describe how mobile communication sheds light upon notions of information, appropriation and development and how it is challenging, and in many cases changing, notions of gender. While the mobile phone reshapes development and micro dynamics of gendered interactions, it is not necessarily a revolutionary tool. Existing power structures may be rearranged, but they are nonetheless quite stable. The analysis of mobile communication in the global south helps us to understand the rise of innovative practices around information and communication technologies and, in turn, enables us to develop theory to understand these emergent empirical realities.