Collective appropriation and cooperative uses of mobile telephony among Burmese fishers

• Main Authors: Aricat, Rajiv George, Ling, Richard
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Mobile Phones; Fishing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86474; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44064
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Early research on mobile phone adoption among fishers followed an economistic perspective, focusing mainly on access to market price information. Researchers called for investigations into collective and cooperative uses of the technology. Responding to these calls, we explored Burmese fishers’ use...