Year: 2014
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This thesis focuses on one representative element of the current digital culture, which has become present in all social life in its different spheresthe mobile phone.Our aim is to describe and analyze some of the overlapping phenomena in the construction of this connectivity chain to which mobile phones and we, as users, belong.To this end, the effort undertaken was to understand how these artifacts are inserted and comprise a broad sociotechnical arrangementin which discourses, knowledge, practices, relationships, circumstances and events flow, involving the market, the producers, the technological innovations on one side and the consumers, and their various daily use practices and life habits on the other.We try to show how this whole network does not escape to the axes of the market, by contrast, it embraces and makes them grow and how the mobile phones are important elements of this process because they made the lives of its users move through the networks' flows, changing, by this way, the relationships that involve the contact with the other, the ways of being in the world, the control practices and the regimes of subjectivity.The main contribution of this study is thus to show that one is facing new vectors of power that directly affect the management of each other's lives, the time use forms, the constitution of affects, contributing also to give new dimensions to processes of value creation, which are increasingly tied to consumption occasions.In short, to understand how new social issues, come into play, from the time that this artifacts become ubiquitous in social practices and how these are updated in terms of governmentality and social control is the primary task of this work.
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2403559919