... Since the mobile phone was the first technology in recent times to truly disrupt money—Kenya’s M-Pesa service having taken the country by storm—this chapter looks at what people do with phones besides make calls and send text messages. Understanding the use cases of the mobile phone was central...

... the workings of this translative force among early twenty-first-century middle-class Filipinos in the context of a particular historical event: the civilian-backed coup that overthrew President Joseph Estrada in 2001. The focus is on two distinct but related media: the cell phone and the crowd. Cell phones...

... mobile phone airtime mobile money regulation risk ...

... mobile phone M-Pesa mobile money use case ...

... cell phones texting crowds EDSA II Philippines messianic politics ...

... mobile phones money non-economic uses of money monetary ecologies and repertoires ...

... What is money? This chapter provides an overview of classic and contemporary theories, and shifts the focus to where is money, and when is money? In introducing how the mobile phone became a key site for innovation in money, it suggests we learn from research into the diverse uses of the mobile...

... Most people around the world buy airtime for their mobile phones on an as-needed basis, instead of having a subscription to a cellular service. In some parts of the world, people started sending airtime credits to one another as a form of payment. This unanticipated use case of the mobile phone...

... In chapter fourteen, Shankar thinks through the politics of digital time as it structures Sahaayaka's intervention. In particular Shankar shows how CEO Krish manipulates fieldworkers' experience of time as they use a new Sahaayaka phone app which makes their job far more about data collection...