Phone-made poiesis: Towards an ethnography of call and response

Jennifer Deger

doi:10.4324/9781315388380

Phone-made poiesis: Towards an ethnography of call and response

Jennifer Deger

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Abstract

This chapter claims mobile phones as technologies of creative mediation and world-making. Specifically, it explores their aesthetics as an increasingly significant and generative texture of contemporary society among Yolngu Aboriginal families in the Northern Territory of Australia. Arguing that mobile phones enable forms of “connectivity” and sensuous two-way relationships that exceed the reach of the mostly linguistically oriented literature in this field, the chapter shows how mobile phones have become a means by which Yolngu observe, respond, and participate in the global via YouTube and other forms of social media – a vital means by which they simultaneously claim and perform a distinctiveness and commonality.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones
Editors	Joshua A Bell, Joel C Kuipers
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Taylor and Francis AS
Chapter	5
Pages	128-147
Number of pages	20
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315388373
ISBN (Print)	9781138229679
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315388380
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018
Externally published	Yes

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© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Joshua A. Bell and Joel C. Kuipers; individual chapters, the contributors.

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Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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