Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The paper sheds light on mobile phone practices among young people within particular cultural contexts, and contributes to the discussion about the domestication of mobile communication technology. It constructs an account of mobile phone use among Palestinian Israeli young women who, at the time of the fieldwork (2003-6), used mobile phones given to them by their illicit boyfriends unbeknownst to their parents. The analysis explores the ways in which the phone use dialectically reaffirms and challenges intergenerational and cross-gender relationships; and reflects on the "domestication" of mobile technology.