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What is Ringtone

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Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction
the sound chosen to be used as the audible alert a mobile phone makes when another person is calling.
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Discursive Practices and Creation of Identity Using the Mobile Phone
Clare Lloyd (The University of Newcastle, Australia) and Patricia Gillard (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-773-2.ch001
Abstract
This chapter investigates the use of mobile phones in Australia by 18 to 35 year olds in the Hunter region; more particularly how the social construction of mobile phone use is revealed in discourse and related to identity formation. Interviews, collected cultural artifacts and a Research Journal provided the primary material, and the method of Discourse Analysis was used to consider each source of information and to compare them. Choices of phone, wallpaper and ringtone are consciously used to express aspects of individual identity, adapting functions of the mobile phone and engaging with broader discourses such as fashion and sound. Many of these discursive practices with the mobile phone are adopted for pleasure as well as utility.
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