Open AccessREVIEW: Noted; Moral quandary over social and political use of mobile phones
Author(s) -
C Wyville Thomson
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v24i2.454
Subject(s) - politics , publishing , project commissioning , mobile phone , media studies , horst , sociology , political science , law , engineering , telecommunications , paleontology , biology , tectonics
The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Islands Perspectives, edited by Robert J. Foster and Heather A. Horst. Canberra: ANU Press, 2018. 163 pages. ISBN 978-1-7604-6208-6 (print); 978-1-7604-6209-3 (e-book)
WHILE anthropologists have mainly studied mobile phone use at an individual or group level, the entry of Digicel into Pacific nations’ mobile markets over the past decade has introduced a wider set of issues that are explored here in detail.