Breaking up 'because of the phone' and the transformative potential of information in Southern Mozambique

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 444-456

  Archambault, Julie Soleil ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

deceit; discursive spaces; information; intimate conflicts; mobile phones; Mozambique; secrets; young adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957844144     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810393906     Document Type: Article

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