Tulane Digital Trends: Téléphone Arabe

Téléphone Arabe: From childs play to the war on terror The poetics and politics of telecommunication




Felicia McCarren, Professor of French, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Arguing for multidirectional transculturation over (colonial or post-colonial) technology transfer, this paper considers the circulation of current telephone practices in France and its former North African colonies, as well as the history and theory of telephone ideology and its role in shaping the U.S. program of domestic surveillance.

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Education

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• Tulane
• NewOrleans
• transculturation
• technologytransfer
• DigitalTrends
• France
• NorthAfrica
• telephone
• communications
• ideology
• surveillance