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dc.contributor.authorFie, Velghe
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-05T13:47:51Z
dc.date.available2020-11-05T13:47:51Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationFie,V. CMDR (2015). ‘Hallo hoe gaan dit, wat maak jy?’: Phatic communication, the mobile phone and coping strategies in a South African context.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2663-4848
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.14426/mm.v2i1.31
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/5368
dc.description.abstractThis paper looks at the ways in which the mobile phone has become a means through which phatic communication is being expressed. More specifically, the paper shows how, in an impoverished community such as the Wesbank township in South Africa, phatic communication and ‘maintaining a connected presence’ are vital strategies of social networking. In a context of severe and desperate impoverishment, loneliness, chronic unemployment and boredom, the exchange of phatic communicational gestures such as a text message or a short phone call forms one of the many coping strategies that the residents in Wesbank employ to face up to the harsh conditions of poverty and insecurity.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectMobile phonesen_US
dc.subjectPhatic communicationen_US
dc.subjectConvivialityen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.title‘Hallo hoe gaan dit, wat maak jy?’: Phatic communication, the mobile phone and coping strategies in a South African contexten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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