Question and Answer

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QUESTION AND ANSWER
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1QUESTION AND ANSWER
Answer 1:
Two of the developmental aspects of the mobile phones mentioned in the text are:
1. Mobile phones as an income-generating product via sale of ts accessories
2. Mobile phones as a bridging the digital divide that exists between rich and the poor.
Answer 2:
In Arab Africa, the Arab Spring, the weaponisation of mobile phone is illustrated.
Answer 3:
The two instances in which the mobile phone can be branded as a ‘retraditionalizing’ are:
i) The way it has contributed in collecting specialized publics that resonates with religious
innuendo and it’s potential.
ii) The way it has changed the thumb culture in Africa.
Answer 4.
Mobile phones are viewed annoying social phenomenon for it is a device that requires a
new etiquette in order to tame its various infractions of peace, decency and public order. It
creates distraction and loss of mental peace by ‘anywhere anytime economy’ through beep and
ringtones and creating cacophony.
Answer 5:
The sentence ‘The sudden eruption of the private in the public’ means the diplomacy and
the politics that is involved around the concept of wanting to speak in public yet in a private way.
Also, the privacy that is involved while one is speaking in public.