The Moral and Cultural Economy of Mobile Phones in the Pacific

在过去的十年中，发展中国家通过移动电话的媒介经历了一场数字革命。基本款手机现在用于个人通讯、社交、上网、电子银行和转账。通过对斐济和巴布亚新几内亚移动通信市场的比较研究，本研究将通过考察公司、消费者和国家行为体如何塑造经济生活的道德和文化层面，为变革时刻提供新的见解。这项研究将从历史和民族学角度记录太平洋地区新数字技术的广泛社会后果。

Over the last decade, developing countries have experienced a digital revolution through the medium of the mobile phone. Basic handsets are now used for personal communication, social connection, internet access, electronic banking and money transfers. Through a comparative study of mobile telecommunications markets in Fiji and Papua New Guinea, this research will provide fresh insight into a transformative moment by examining how companies, consumers and state actors shape the moral and cultural dimensions of economic life. The research will historically and ethnographically document the broad social consequences of new digital technologies in the Pacific region.