Woo hoo a discussion I can join in on! :) I also think that amazingly this quote is also about the "threat" that cell phones pose to authority. If this is not a nod to the power of Smart Mobs, I don't know what is. Can we actually say that taking cell phones away from Iraqis is like going in and taking their guns away? I was just watching Fahrenheit 911 on DVD and in the "special features" they have unedited clip of a journalist who went with a troop brigade on a raid of civilians suspected of harboring weapons...
This is so sick... and points to the desperation of the situation. KT Kathleen M. Cumiskey Assistant Professor Psychology Department City University of New York College of Staten Island 2800 Victory Blvd. 4S-108 Staten Island, NY 10314 ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:26:29 +0200 >Hello all, > >I just came across the following quote from a Newsweek article on the >interaction between the US troops in Iraq and the local people. The >quote is: > >"If you see someone with a cell phone," said one of the commanders, >half-jokingly, "put a bullet in their f---ing head." > >There are a lot of different things to be said about the quote but I >would like to focus on one dimension here. > >Being interested in the subject, (both the war in Iraq and cell phones) >it got me to thinking about the way in which the technology has been >variously defined. It seems that the device has been a marker of >various social groups who have various social purposes. There was the >"yuppie" image of Michael Douglas in the film Wall Street. There were >the teen users in Japan, Scandinavia, etc. and now one take on the >meaning of a mobile phone user is that it marks a terrorist, or at least >someone who is seen as a threat in this particular setting. The issue >here is not whether a person using a cell phone is a terrorist or not, >but rather that use of the device might be interpreted that way by >another. > >A link to the whole article is: > >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13124487/site/newsweek/ > > >> > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.csi.cuny.edu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
