Echoing to H. Simmel: Experience of Aesthetic and Sociological Research of Mobile Phone

Alla Petrenko-Lysak Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 64/13, Volodymyrska Str., Kyiv, 01601 Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1316-5002

Keywords: mobile phone, communicative space, subject-communicator

Abstract

Social essence and value of mobile phone through its in-thing phenomenalogozm is presented in the article. The method of G. Simmel is used in this analysis. Reduction of mobile telephone is produced to its social sense. This article is an attempt sociologically conceptualizes a material object, thing, is a mobile phone - as semantic unity, but not simply material thing. A mobile phone is described as a marker, sign, identifier of social subject. In the article a mobile phone is presented as technical not device, but as a particle of social space.

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Author Biography

Alla Petrenko-Lysak, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 64/13, Volodymyrska Str., Kyiv, 01601 Ukraine

PhD of Sociology, Associate Professor, Department of Sector Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, alla_pl@ukr.net

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