4 - Everyday Use of Mobile Phones in Niger
Corresponding Author(s) : Gado Alzouma
Revue africaine des médias,
Vol. 16 No 2 (2008): Revue africaine des médias, Volume 16, n° 2, 2008
Résumé
Cet article porte sur une analyse critique des effets de l’usage du téléphone
mobile sur les relations interpersonnelles au Niger. L’étude est basée sur des
travaux de terrain effectués pendant l’été en 2003 et 2004 auprès des citadins
Nigériens utilisateurs de téléphones mobiles à Niamey, la capitale du pays. Les
interviews semi-structurées ont été utilisées afin de comprendre comment les
citoyens ‘vivent’ l’utilisation du téléphone mobile au quotidien. Du point de
vue de l’auteur, l’usage du téléphone portable entraîne une extension de la
sphère d’intimité chez les femmes. Se faisant, l’usage de ces ‘gadgets’ permet de lutter contre les effets de désintégration de la vie moderne, renforce les liens
communautaires, modifie la gestion du temps et de ce que Pertierra et al ont
convenu d’appeler ‘les pratiques discursives’. En conclusion, l’auteur justifie la
popularité du téléphone mobile en Afrique et au Niger en particulier par la
manipulabité et l’abordabilité des coûts de ses outils de télécommunications, y
compris le fait que le portable n’exige pas son utilisateur d’avoir un certain niveau
d’instruction préalable.
Mots-clés
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Les références
Agence de Presse Africaine (APA), 2007, Téléphonie mobile: Celtel-Niger envisage
de couvrir 200 localités à l’horizon 2008, media, release, 18 June, viewed
July 2007, < http://www.apanews.net/apa.php?page=show_article
&id_article=35563>
Altervision, 2004, Le téléphone mobile au Mali et au Niger, web document. Viewed
on April 7, 2004,
Alzouma, G., 2005, ‘Myths of Digital Technology in Africa: Leapfrogging Development?’
Global Media and Communication, 1,(3): 339-356.
Bachen, C., 2001, ‘The Family in the Networked Society: A Summary of Research
on the American Family,’ STS Nexus, 1(1). Viewed 4 September 2004,
sts.scu.edu/nexus/Issue1-1/Bachen_TheNetworkedFamily.asp>.
Bourdieu, P., 1990, Logic of Practice, trans. R. Nice. Cambridge: Polity.
Bourdieu, P., 1997, ‘Marginalia – some additional thoughts on the gift,’ in A.
Schrift (ed.), The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity, London:
Routledge.
Carrier, J.G., 1995, ‘Gifts in a World of Commodities,’ in J.G. Carrier (ed.) Gifts and
Commodities: Exchange and Western Capitalism since 1700. London:
Routledge.
Centre sur les Politiques internationales des TIC en Afrique centrale et de l’Ouest
(CIPACO), 2007, Niger: appel à intérêt pour la libéralisation des
télécommunications, Media Release, 12 January, viewed 9 September 2007,
<http://www.cipaco.org/spip.php?article1215> 77234 9886
Fortunati, L., 2003, ‘The Mobile Phone and Democracy: An Ambivalent Relationship,’
in Mobile Democracy, ed. Kristof Nyiri, Vienna: Passagen Verlag.
Fox, K., 2001, Evolution, Alienation and Gossip: The Role of Mobile Telecommunications
in the 21st Century, Social Issues Research Center, viewed 12 February
, <http://www.sirc.org/publik/gossip.shtml>.
Geser, H., 2004, Towards a Sociological Theory of the Mobile Phone, University
of Zurich, viewed 8 January 2005, <http://socio.ch/mobile/t_geser1.pdf>.
Government of Niger, 2002, Demographic and Health Survey, Niamey, Niger.
Government of Niger, Office of the Prime Minister, 2002, Poverty Reduction Strategy
Document, Niamey, Niger.
Grant Lewis, S., and Samoff, J., 1992, Microcomputers in African Development:
Critical Perspectives. Boulder, Colorado: Westview.
Hall, J., 2003, ‘Africa at Large: Mobile Phones in Vogue,’ Africa. no, News
Update,The Norwegian Council for Africa, viewed 12 February 2005,
.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), 2004, Africa: The World’s Fastest
Growing Mobile 2004, Media Release, 26 April, viewed 4 December 2004,
< http://www.itu.int/newsarchive/press_releases/2004/04.html>
International Telecommunication Union, 2002, ITU Digital Access Index, The
World’s First Global ICT Ranking, Online, viewed September 08, 2007,
http://www.itu.int/newsarchive/press_releases/2003/30.html
Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Equipement et de l’Environnement pour
le Développement (ISTED), 1998, The Dynamics of Urbanization in Sub-Saharan
Africa, Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Equipement et de
l’Environnement pour le Développement (ISTED), Paris, France.
Lally, E., 2002, At Home With Computers, Oxford: Berg.
Olivier de Sardan, J.P., 1982, Concepts et Conceptions Songhay-Zarma, Nubia.
Paris: France.
Ong, W.J., 1982, Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the World, London:
Methuen.
Pertierra, R., Ugarte, E., Pingol, A., Hernandez, J., and Lexis Dacanay, L., 2002, TXTING
SELVES: Mobile Phones and Philippine Modernity, Manila, Philippines:
De La Salle University Press.
Radcliffe-Brown, A.R., 1940, ‘On Joking Relationships,’ Africa, 13: 195-210.
Tourawa, D and Tidjani, A., 1998, ‘Le téléphone portable au Niger’, Sahel Dimanche
(August 28).
Uimonen, P., 2003, ‘Networking as a Form of Life: The Transnational Movement of
Internet Pioneers,’ in Garsten, C., and Wulff, H. (eds.) Technologies at Work:
People, Screen, and Social Virtuality, New York: Berg.
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), 2007, UNCCD,
UNDP and the Government of Niger Tackle Both Youth Unemployment and
Desertification, Press release, Online, Viewed September 08, 2007, http:/
/www.unccd.int/publicinfo/pressrel/showpressrel.php?pr=press17_06_03
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), 1999, Policies and
Strategies for Accelerating Africa’s Information Infrastructure Development,
paper written for the African Development Forum 1999, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
viewed March 9, 2004, http://www.uneca.org/adf99/infrastructure.htm