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The mobile phone "ecosystem" in Africa

hal.structure.identifierLes Afriques dans le monde [LAM]
dc.contributor.authorCHÉNEAU-LOQUAY, Annie
dc.date.created2013-06-27
dc.date.conference2013-06-27
dc.description.abstractEnThe expansion of mobile telephony in Africa thus remains an essentially urban phenomenon. To understand the hyper presence of mobile telephony in African cities and to grasp the eminently political dimension of networks and of their social construction and uses, my analysis is based on the "games of actors." The paper explores how key strategies and techniques of the different parties function on a national level to respond to the need, shared by all categories of the African population, to communicate at a distance and how these strategies form a real "ecosystem". We will examine how these processes overlap within the "urban fabric". One of the essential hypotheses is that, with regard to the specificities of countries in the Global South, the question of communication networks and technologies must be situated within a global context of a "paradoxical invention of modernity" (Bayart, 1994) linked to the importance of the informal economy. The adoption of mobile telephony in Africa shows that innovation is born as much from the local practices of users and small private service providers as in laboratories. This illustrates the process of "innovations by use" (Cardon, 2005) and the creative capacity "of the art of practice"displayed by ordinary people (de Certeau, 1980).
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectSociologie politique
dc.subjectTéléphonie mobile
dc.subjectRéseau de communication
dc.subjectEconomie informelle
dc.subjectInnovation
dc.subjectSociété urbaine
dc.subjectAfrique
dc.subject.enPolitical sociology
dc.subject.enMobile telephony
dc.subject.encommunication networks
dc.subject.enInformal economy
dc.subject.enCities
dc.subject.enAfrica
dc.title.enThe mobile phone "ecosystem" in Africa
dc.typeCommunication dans un congrès
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Sciences de l'information et de la communication
bordeaux.countryPT
bordeaux.conference.cityLisbonne
bordeaux.peerReviewedoui
hal.identifierhalshs-00907093
hal.version1
hal.invitednon
hal.proceedingsnon
hal.conference.end2013-06-29
hal.popularnon
hal.audienceNon spécifiée
hal.origin.linkhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//halshs-00907093v1
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