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Informationen zum Autor Burce Celik is Assistant Professor and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Communication at Bahcesehir University! Turkey. She obtained her PhD from the Department of Art History and Communications at McGill University! Canada. Klappentext Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire! Turkey has seen a complete re-imagining of its political! cultural and social landscape. Burce Celik argues that technology has been integral to this transformative process! showing how take-up of modern technologies! such as the cell or mobile phone! has been embraced particularly by those who most easily absorbed new ideals about Turkey and modern Turkishness. While many studies on the cultural significance of mobile technology focus on its rational uses and incentives! Celik draws on cultural theory! psychoanalysis and the philosophy of technology to explore the bonds! desires and dependencies that Turkish citizens have in relation to the cell phone. She ultimately links a collective post-empire melancholia with a desire to re-imagine a new! ideal Turkish national identity through technology. Vorwort While many studies on the cultural significance of mobile technology focus on its rational uses and incentives, Celik draws on cultural theory, psychoanalysis and the philosophy of technology to explore the bonds, desires and dependencies that Turkish citizens have in relation to the cell phone. Zusammenfassung While many studies on the cultural significance of mobile technology focus on its rational uses and incentives, A elik draws on cultural theory, psychoanalysis and the philosophy of technology to explore the bonds, desires and dependencies that Turkish citizens have in relation to the cell phone. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Cellular Telephony, Imitation, Attachment2. Technology of/in Making a Modern Nation: Melancholic Construct, Melancholic Bodies3. Rethinking the Technoscape and Contextualizing Cellular Telephony in Turkey4. Attachment to Cellular Telephony: Thinking of Meaning, Function and Bodily Relations5. Individual Articulation with Cellular Telephony: Containment, Transference and Translation6. Cellular Telephony as a Social Practice: The Collective Desire for Living in an Open Crowd...
