The family politics of new media domestication: an ethnographic study of mobile phones’ influences on rural adolescents’ socialization in a central Chinese town

Guan, Cheng-yun; Jia-mei, Tang; Wang, Min

doi:10.1080/01292986.2019.1683753

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“…Owing to the high penetration rate of mobile phone in rural China, mobile phones are found popular with LBC (Li et al, 2019 ; Guan et al, 2020 ). Yet, the use of mobile phones between migrant parents and their LBC has been a mixed blessing in media discourses since the diffusion of mobile phone in China (Xu, 2016 ).…”

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“…The key argument is that as parental migration leaves the children unchecked, their Internet addiction is higher than those of non-LBC on whom parents have the supervision. As a result, LBC have high risks of mobile phone dependency (Guan et al, 2020 ), thus negatively affecting the LBC's life events as well as their academic engagements, such as problems with academic persistence and academic procrastination (Zhen et al, 2020 ).…”

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“…Wang and Zheng ( 2022 ) argued that many rural LBC suffer from emotional dilemmas because of the lack of parental company and emotional interaction, and therefore, they seek emotional compensations from the uses of social media platforms, online entertainment, and online gaming that are enabled by their mobile phones. Such entertainment uses of mobile phones become the major ways for LBC and other rural adolescents to engage in socialization (Guan et al, 2020 ) and emotional socialization (Wang and Zheng, 2022 ) in digital age. However, heavy uses of the entertainment function of the mobile phones result in LBC's addictions to mobile phones (Cai et al, 2021 ).…”

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The bright side of digitization: Assessing the impact of mobile phone domestication on left-behind children in China's rural migrant families

2022

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This study examines the mobile phone practices of rural left-behind children (LBC) whose one or both parents migrate to cities for better earnings and the impact of such practices on migrant families in China. The study has used ethnographic approach by conducting participant observations and interviews of 21 LBC, residing in Guangren village, south China's Guangxi Autonomous Region. The study uses domestication theory to analyze these LBC's adoption of mobile phones in their daily routines and spaces in and out of their households. The key findings are as follows: (a) the LBC used mobile phones primarily to engage with their distant parent(s); (b) through collaborative efforts, they tried to enhance familial connections; and (c) they overcome the separation issue by co-participating in ongoing events, thus making the domestication of mobile phone a distant solving of real-world problems faced by migrant parent(s) and their LBC. The study concludes that LBC's innovative uses of mobile phones empowered them by building shared virtual space with their migrant parent(s), via which they handled the separation issue. In such shared virtual spaces, LBC's families have developed rich expressions of familial connections in various forms based on the limited perpetuate connectedness.

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“…O acesso à tecnologia tem estimulado crescimento econômico, possibilitando outras narrativas em regiões com menos recursos e mostra que o uso de telefones celulares pode favorecer ao aumento da renda familiar (Omar, 2011;Wyche e Olson , 2018); Nie, et al, 2020) o indíviduo e a comunidade na qual se está inserido (Nachimuthu, 2012;Guan, et al, 2020).…”

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Cenários Sobre Internet E Smartphones Em Comunidades Rurais: Um Mapeamento Sistemático

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Amorim²,

Amorim³

2021

Ouricuri

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Resumo: Anteriormente muito concentradas em áreas urbanas as Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação passaram a disponibilizar seus recursos também em áreas rurais. Com a popularização dos smartphones e da internet sem fio, a expansão do acesso passou a ser menos impactada/dificultada em relação aos custos de infraestrutura e manutenção exigidos por conexões tradicionais, como fibra ótica, cabo ou mesmo à rádio. Neste contexto, buscou-se através de um mapeamento sistemático identificar na literatura científica trabalhos que possibilitassem a construção de cenários sobre o uso/presença dessas Tecnologias e suas implicações no cotidiano de comunidades rurais. Os resultados apontam que o uso do smartphone e internet em áreas rurais favorece a comunicação, o desenvolvimento econômico e a participação cidadã, entretanto, apenas o acesso a recursos tecnológicos não é suficiente para se superar a exclusão digital. Por fim, revelase a necessidade do cuidado com o uso excessivo de tecnologias, de modo a se manterem o bemestar mental e em comunidade e o uso crítico dos dispositivos como resposta ao capitalismo informacional.

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“…Not surprisingly, political campaigns through social media have become a new habitus that is used even to reach rural areas. Furthermore, the political model that is used is identity politics and family politics (Guan, Tang, & Wang, 2019 (Holla, 2016).…”

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Political Agonism for Indonesian Cyberpolitic: Critical Cyberculture to Political Campaign of 2019 Indonesian Presidential Election in Twitter

Gusfa

Kadjuand

2020

NJOC

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In this era of third-generation media, political battles not only occur in the real world but also occur in cyberspace. Various strategies and products of political campaigns using social media have become commonplace in political communication. This happens because along with the disruption of public communication media, conventional campaign ideas and models have also expanded into cyber channels and shaped cyber politics reality. The uniqueness of this research is antagonistic narratives such as hoax, ethnicity, religion, race, intergroup, and provocation in the 2019 Presidential Election political campaign on Twitter from January 1st, 2019 to April 13th, 2019. This research intends to critically analyze the narrative of political campaigns on Twitter using the Agonism Cyber-politic approach. The method used in this research is Multimodal Critical Cyberculture Analysis to analyze the multimodality text (text and image components), Using hashtags to amplificated a political narration, and the antagonism narrations that develops on Twitter by supporting accounts of Jokowi and Prabowo. The results showed that the @jokowi and @prabowo accounts were the accounts with the highest engagement in spreading political campaign narratives on Twitter. The @jokowi account uses optimistic narratives, while @prabowo tends to use pessimistic narratives. Nevertheless, there are so many antagonism narratives like hoax, fake news, propaganda, and politicization of SARA which are specified by anonymous accounts. These antagonistic narratives are more developed in cyber politics discourse on Twitter. The result is horizontal conflict among Indonesian people. The community represented by netizens experienced division and formed two clusters. This fact certainly reduces the meaning of Indonesian democracy which should be substantive to mere procedural. It was found out that the concept of agonistic politics becomes practice of Indonesian democracy, based on the philosophy of the Indonesian nation Keywords: Jokowi, Prabowo, 2019 Presidential Election, political campaign, twitter, cyber politic, Indonesian cyber-democracy ABSTRAKDi era media generasi ketiga sekarang ini, pertarungan politik tidak hanya terjadi di dunia nyata, tetapi juga terjadi di dunia maya. Berbagai strategi dan produk kampanye politik menggunakan media sosial menjadi hal yang lumrah dalam komunikasi politik. Hal ini terjadi karena seiring dengan terganggunya media komunikasi publik, ide dan model kampanye konvensional juga merambah ke saluran siber dan membentuk realitas politik siber. Keunikan dari penelitian ini adalah narasi antagonis seperti hoax, etnisitas, agama, ras, antargolongan, dan provokasi dalam kampanye politik Pilpres 2019 di Twitter dari 1 Januari hingga 13 April 2019. Penelitian ini ingin menganalisis secara kritis narasi kampanye politik di Twitter dengan pendekatan Agonism Cyber-politic. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Multimodal Critical Cyberculture Analysis, bertujuan untuk menganalisis teks multimodal (komponen teks dan gambar), penggunaan hashtag untuk memperkuat narasi politik, dan narasi antagonisme yang berkembang di Twitter dengan mendukung akun Jokowi dan Prabowo. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa akun @jokowi dan @prabowo merupakan akun yang paling banyak terlibat dalam menyebarkan narasi kampanye politik di Twitter. Akun @jokowi menggunakan narasi optimis, sedangkan @prabowo cenderung menggunakan narasi pesimistis. Namun demikian, banyak ditemukan narasi antagonisme, seperti hoax, fake news, propaganda, dan politisasi SARA yang dibocorkan oleh akun anonim. Narasi antagonis ini lebih berkembang dalam wacana politik dunia maya di Twitter. Akibatnya terjadi konflik horizontal dalam kehidupan (politik) masyarakat Indonesia. Komunitas yang diwakili oleh netizen mengalami perpecahan dan membentuk dua kluster. Fakta ini tentu mereduksi makna demokrasi Indonesia yang semestinya substantif menjadi sekadar prosedural. Konsep politik agonistik sendiri sudah menjadi bagian dari praktik demokrasi di Indonesia yang berlandaskan pada falsafah bangsa Indonesia.Kata Kunci: Jokowi, Prabowo, Pilpres 2019, kampanye politik, Twitter, politik siber, demokrasi siber Indonesia

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The family politics of new media domestication: an ethnographic study of mobile phones’ influences on rural adolescents’ socialization in a central Chinese town

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

The bright side of digitization: Assessing the impact of mobile phone domestication on left-behind children in China's rural migrant families

The bright side of digitization: Assessing the impact of mobile phone domestication on left-behind children in China's rural migrant families

Cenários Sobre Internet E Smartphones Em Comunidades Rurais: Um Mapeamento Sistemático

Political Agonism for Indonesian Cyberpolitic: Critical Cyberculture to Political Campaign of 2019 Indonesian Presidential Election in Twitter

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