%0 Journal Article
%A De Salvador Agra, Saleta
%A Martínez Suárez, Yolanda
%T Nomadism and intermittent ubiquity in ‘off the grid’ Shuar people
%D 2015
%@ 0214-0039
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/97565
%X Media ecology suggests that the anyone, anywhere, anytime slogan of the ubiquitous society characterizes our times. A priori, mobile technology in the “digital ecosystem” fits this circumstance. However, if we delocalize to a remote area, this initial assumption changes. Results of a case study analyzing the use and appropriation of mobile phones in the indigenous Amazon Shuar communities show a different reality that could be labeled ‘intermittent ubiquity’. How does the delocalization facilitated by mobile telephones affect a remote area? How do Ecuadorian Shuars appropriate digital mobile technology? How does technological novelty become apparent in a context that is currently ‘off the grid’? These questions drive our interest in examining the three premises of the ubiquitous society slogan in this specific context
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