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Toward a Rhetoric of Locale: Localizing Mobile Messaging Technology into Everyday Life
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  • Huatong Sun, University of Washington Tacoma
Publication Date
6-11-2009
Document Type
Article
Abstract

This article explores the social meaning of locale in mobile communication research and introduces an approach of user localization to study technology integration. It investigates how locale forms an essential role in mobile communication in the way that practice, agency, and identities are articulated into a user localization process of incorporating technology into user's everyday life. It argues that the use of mobile communication technology is both a complex and dynamic interaction with its surrounding social, cultural, technological, and economic conditions, and an articulation work of self and locale.

DOI
10.2190/TW.39.3.c
Publisher Policy
pre-print, post-print
Citation Information
Huatong Sun. "Toward a Rhetoric of Locale: Localizing Mobile Messaging Technology into Everyday Life" Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Vol. 39 Iss. 3 (2009) p. 245 - 261
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/huatong_sun/13/