Studying Mobile Phone Use in Context: Cultural, Political, and Economic Dimensions of Mobile Phone Use

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A paper by Carolyn Wei and Beth E. Kolko of the University of Washington arguing that mobile phone use needs to be studied in its cultural, political and economic context. It presents a case study of Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia where mobile phone use was growing, reviews the literature on mobile phone use in non-Western developing countries, and discusses results from interviews about perceptions and use of mobile phones in Tashkent.