Cell Phones, Social Inequality, and Contemporary Culture in Nigeria

ResumeAu Nigeria, il existe peu (ou pas) d’innovations technologiques ces dernieres decennies qui aient produit des consequences sociales et culturelles aussi immediates et d’une envergure aussi grande que celles crees par les telephones portables. Cet article examine la nature des changements generes par la proliferation massive de la technologie des telephones portables. Il examine la maniere dont l’utilisation massive des portables a accentue la dynamique culturelle deja en place, de meme que la maniere dont ces portables ont intensifie le mecontentement populaire, resultat de l’inegalite dans le Nigeria contemporain. D’une certaine maniere, le nombre de portables a grandement elargi une sorte d’egalite de la consommation, offrant a des millions de Nigerians la possibilite d’etre proprietaire d’une technologie, jusque la reservee seulement aux plus hauts echelons de l’elite sociale. Mais, cette nouvelle technologie a davantage expose les profondes disparites de la societe nigeriane, contribuant ainsi a...

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