The travel of an iPhone: ineluctable connectivity, networked precarity, and postsocialist politics.

This essay considers the homosocial 'love story' between a New York City media worker and a poor Chinese worker incidentally triggered by the iCloud connection of a lost iPhone in relation to the global chain of iPhones production, circulation and consumption. It asks how information technologies ha...

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Publicado en:Social Identities Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 255 - 271
Autor principal: Liu, Xiao
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2018
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