The Mobile and Me: Canadian Youth Talk About their Mobile Phones

Shepherd, Tamara; Shade, Leslie Regan

The Mobile and Me: Canadian Youth Talk About their Mobile Phones

dc.contributor.author	Shepherd, Tamara
dc.contributor.author	Shade, Leslie Regan
dc.date.accessioned	2017-05-03T03:29:01Z
dc.date.available	2017-05-03T03:29:01Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description	By exploring the practices of young people within the broader context of the national wireless industry and its marketing strategies, this chapter aims to highlight how the economics of youths’ mobile phone use might impinge on the broader politics of mobility in relation to young people as both consumers and political actors in the context of Canada’s current telecommunications regime. As the historical context where certain constellations of mobility take shape, we frame Canadian telecommunications politics as a space where the meanings of mobility are being defined. In examining how young mobile phone users are represented through discourses of regulation, marketing, and user appropriation, we extend the framework of constellations of mobility as a way of interconnecting young people’s everyday experiences of this increasingly prevalent technological sphere.	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Shepherd, T., & Shade, L. R. (2012). The Mobile and Me: Canadian Youth Talk About their Mobile Phones. In P. Vannini, L. Budd, C. Fisker, P. Jiron & O. Jensen (eds.), Technologies of Mobility in the Americas. New York: Peter Lang.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/30268
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51971
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Peter Lang	en_US
dc.subject	mobiles	en_US
dc.subject	youth	en_US
dc.subject	privacy	en_US
dc.subject	policy	en_US
dc.title	The Mobile and Me: Canadian Youth Talk About their Mobile Phones	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Mobile Phones as a “Necessary Evil”: Canadian Youth Talk about Negotiating the Politics of Mobility	en_US
dc.type	book part