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

• 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
• Subjects: Appropriation; Acculturation; DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85426; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48205; https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3081/1426
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...