'Message in a mobile' : [Risālah fī jawāl] = Risaala fi jawaal : mixed-messages, tales of missing and mobile communities at the University of Khatroum / Siri Lamoureaux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamoureaux, Siri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cell phones--Social aspects--Sudan--Khartoum.

Cell phones.

College students--Social networks--Sudan--Khartoum.

College students.

Nubians--Sudan--Khartoum--Social life and customs.

Nubians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Risālah fī jawāl

Risaala fi jawaal

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa ; Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A detailed, meticulous ethnographic study on mobile phone use among Nuba students at the University of Khartoum in Sudan.

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Pictures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Mobile phones and network society; Situating the study: Initial research question; New media - new communities; Working with youth cultures: Community, identity and autonomy; Re-directing my research; Interdisciplinarity: Organizing my ideas; 2. Memories of Mekwar: Historical identities and student diversity; Pre-colonial history; Center vs. periphery; Ethno-linguistic peripheries and national identity; Processes of migration: The making of the urban capital

The National Islamic Fromnt (NIF) and the new Islamic state What does it mean to be Sudanese?; 3. Discourse and identity: Texting in the Sudanese communicative ecology; ""Keeping in touch"": Sudanese communicative style; Texting as a semi-oral medium; Discursive identities; Classical Arabic and Sudanese Colloquial Arabic in texting; Space for alternative identities; 4. Nuba and urban identity: The discourse of resistance and the practice of integration; Joseph's story; The ""Nuba problem"": Discourses of othering; On becoming ""Arab""; Research question revisited

Lessons in methodology: The Karko students The Krongo picnic; Paths of accumulation: Contradiction of ideology and practice; Flexible identites: Krongawi - Nubaawi - Sudaani; 5. Text message poetry (shi'ar iliktrooni): The broader effects of personal practices; Alessandro's story; The sending and receiving of poetic messages; Poetry in the Sudanese context; The 'social circulation' of SMS poetry and the 'mediation of 'missing'; Intertextual texting; Recontextualization and the public imagination; 6. Love in the time of mobility: Careful appropriations and courtship negotiations; Leila's story

Public vs private in Sudan Women's space in the Hamad family's home; Islamic fundamentalist discourse on women; Courtship and social space: Maneuvering on the margins; The mobile phone and the semi-private social space for love; Romantic curiosities and moral crises; The space in-between: Being a ""good Muslim"" and a desiring individual; Leila sets an example; 7. Being ""modern"": From Shakespeare to chat room literacy; Fellah's story; The mobile phone is a technology and a symbol of modernity; English is a technology and a symbol of modernity; The Gulf is modern place; Coming from the Gulf

Globalization of English and computer-mediated communication (CMC)Howglobal and local mingle in Sudanese - English texting; Belonging in a globalized world; 8. Conclusion; Appendix 1: Transcription conventions; Appendix 2: List of terms; References; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613412751

9781283412759

1283412756

9789956726325

995672632X

9789956726196

9956726192

9789956726455

9956726451

OCLC:

817054249