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

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Aricat, Rajiv George, Karnowski, Veronika, Chib, Arul
• مؤلفون آخرون: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2019
• الموضوعات: Appropriation; Acculturation; DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85426; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48205; https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3081/1426
• المؤسسة: 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...