�Hallo hoe gaan dit, wat maak jy?�: Phatic communication, the mobile phone and coping strategies in a South African context
| dc.contributor.author | Fie, Velghe | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-05T13:47:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-05T13:47:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This 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.identifier.citation | Fie,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.issn | 2663-4848 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.14426/mm.v2i1.31 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/5368 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mobile phones | en_US |
| dc.subject | Phatic communication | en_US |
| dc.subject | Conviviality | en_US |
| dc.subject | South Africa | en_US |
| dc.title | �Hallo hoe gaan dit, wat maak jy?�: Phatic communication, the mobile phone and coping strategies in a South African context | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |