Sex, Cannibals, and the Language of Cool: Indonesian Tales of the Phone and Modernity
- ISSN: 01972243
- DOI: 10.1080/01972240802020044
Abstract
In Indonesia mobile technology has come at the end of 35 years of the Suharto regime, and in its aftermath an era of new openness. associated with the new freedoms of this post-1998 period, facilitating newly emergent youth cultures, a hip mobile lifestyle as well as experi- ments with novel sexual identities. In a country characterized by stark contrastsbetween center and periphery, city and country- side, and the rich and the poorthis has at the same time resulted in an uneven spread of technology, and thus in the coexistence of very diverse cellular markets. Through deliberating the pros and cons of mobile technology, new possibilities the phone seems to of- fer, and the often creative solutions people find in gaining access to mobility, it is shown how Indonesians try coming to terms with the otherwise abstract notion of (post)modernity. Keywords Alternative modernities, mobile literature
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