{"product_id":"9783030349288","title":"The Digitizing Family: An Ethnography of Melanesian Smartphones","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Digitizing Family: An Ethnography of Melanesian Smartphones\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eHobbis, Geoffrey\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once a digital ethnography of smartphones and a classically conceived village-based ethnography, this book relocates the study of digital technologies to rural Melanesia, with a focus on the Lau of Malaita, Soloman Islands. In this ‘technography’, Geoffrey Hobbis studies the materiality and functional attributes of smartphones and their object biographies—modes of acquisition, maintenance, uses, limitations and the problems specific to this region in adopting and adapting smartphones in everyday life. As he examines the various uses of smartphones, as both telephone and multimedia device, Hobbis also explores the social and cultural transformations, the hopes and uncertainties, with which they are associated. Ultimately, in bringing together a study of digital technologies with classical anthropological theory, \u003ci\u003eThe Digitizing Family\u003c\/i\u003e develops a theory of smartphones as kinship technologies and supercompositional objects. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2020-02-08\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030349288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-34929-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 225\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47710707515532,"sku":"9783030349288","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030349288.jpg?v=1776789249","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030349288","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}