Having a phone, having style:

Title: Having a phone, having style:
Creator: Schoon, Alette
Date Issued: 2012
Date: 2012
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159506
Identifier: vital:40303
Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC135828
Description: It was dusk, and a group of young men with a dog trailing behind them, were walking past on a dusty township road in Hooggenoeg, an RDP village on the rim of the Grahamstown bowl. While they ambled along, one was holding up a mobile phone on which music was playing, dancing while he walked. This was exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to observe in my new identity as researcher and participant observer, and was why I had agreed to judge the Hooggenoeg fashion show which turned out to be more of a beauty competition. While I'm not generally fond of these kind of shows and the way they essentialise beauty, I agreed because I wanted to get more of a sense of how mobile phones are integrated into the everyday lives of these young adults.
Format: 2 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Rhodes Journalism Review
Relation: Schoon, Alette. Having a phone, having style. Rhodes Journalism Review, 2011. September (31), pp. 12-13
Relation: Rhodes Journalism Review volume 32 number 12 13 September 2012
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