Comments on: Palestinian girls, dating, and the mobile phone

By: Giddy

Giddy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:28:06 +0000

i feel alot of pity for our bros and sisters in this piece of the world. If you are from Gaza/palestine kindly contact me as we share the grief..
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southern africa

By: john paul

john paul — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:31:08 +0000

This story is really great and nice, i find really interesting. NICE qoute ” i didn’t escape prison only to know i’m inside another prison”. i believe that this will really increase the population of bisexuals ans heterosexuals or maybe falling in love with the same sex. i do beleive that if they havent embraced the culture of the west and kept everything as it is 70 years ago, everything will be the same with no doubt. shopping malls, branded stuffs, precious cars and a lot more things were introduced. what else can i say “IF YOU GIVE SOMEONE A HAND, TIME WILL COME THAT PERSON WILL ASK YOU FOR YOUR ARM. IF YOUR KIND ENOUGH TO GIVE YOUR ARM, TIME WILL COME THAT HE WILL ASK YOU FOR YOUR HEAD.” SAME RULES APPLY.

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By: pritvy

pritvy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:45:32 +0000

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By: Manjunath

Manjunath — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:48:01 +0000

The article is remniscent of the socio-economic culture in my country(India). With the advent of technology and the rapid strides made in the Software industry, Indians are still very conservative by nature. They are still chained by old beliefs and tenets. Even in Bangalore( suppossedly the most open society) the IT capital of India parents still worry and fret about the excessive use of mobile phones by their offsprings. The situation is quite similar to your article.

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By: Tom Cotton

Tom Cotton — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:54:34 +0000

A connection needing to be made: http://extraordinary.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/04/extraordinary-everyday-lives-046-horizontal-dave-manic-mike-grumpy-silkcharm/
quote: “Dave, mike and laurel chat about Laurel’s recent trip to Saudi to work with women there on a social network, the cultural, and gender issues, similarities and tech hurdles. Also joined by Andrew & Steph Doust who work in Dubai, Iraq and Palestine.”

By: ailsa

ailsa — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:08:00 +0000

Thanks for the link. A fascinating take on cultural practices undergoing challenges brought on by new technologies. I am studying use of txt as a preferred choice by young people in counselling. The covert use is one aspect, but the young people i interview are also saying that they can txt things that they wouldnt dream of saying…. some similarities.

By: Branedy

Branedy — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:50:24 +0000

This article reminded me of my time in Saudi Arabia, I had managed to take a scanner into the country which could monitor their cellular traffic. Mind you, I couldn’t understand what they were saying to each other, but the male/female emotional content was vividly clear.

By: Jill Walker Rettberg

Jill Walker Rettberg — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:43:19 +0000

That’s really interesting. Larissa Hjorth had a fascinating paper presented at PerthDAC last September about how mobile phones are used in Korea – another kind of culturally specific setting, that. Apparently when a girl and boy start dating, the boy’s phone becomes a symbol of their relationship and of his being “taken”. The girl is entitled to decorate it, put photos of herself on it as the screensaver, etc etc etc.

I think this is a published paper that includes the Seoul findings. Or you can read Axel Bruns’ notes from the presentation at DAC.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:49:47 +0000

@Lachlan – there was an interesting story about the social implications of mobile/Bluetooth use in Saudi Arabia on NPR’s Marketplace show last month: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/03/12/meaw_pm3_saudi_dating/