Mobile phone appropriation and migrant acculturation : a case study of an Indian community in Singapore

This research explores how the mobile phone appropriation patterns of an Indian migrant group in Singapore are linked to acculturation strategies. The circular model of mobile phone appropriation was adopted to investigate aspects of usage and handling, prestige and social identity, and metacommunic...

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Main Authors: Aricat, Rajiv George, Karnowski, Veronika, Chib, Arul
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85426
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48205
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3081/1426
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English