This volume maps the role of mobile communication in the daily lives of women around the globe, shedding light on under-the-radar use of mobile communication to display a nuanced understanding of social impacts that may affect the gender construction processes of women at the individual, institutional, and societal levels.
This volume maps the role of mobile communication in the daily lives of women around the globe, shedding light on under-the-radar use of mobile communication to display a nuanced understanding of social impacts that may affect the gender construction processes of women at the individual, institutional, and societal levels.
A global team of authors focus on the use of mobile communication by women in the lower rungs of their respective societies, as well as those who migrate with marginalized statuses within and across the national borders, to demonstrate how under-the-radar use of mobile communication is deeply inscribed within diversified social, cultural, historical, and political milieus. Illuminating the social structural constraints faced by women under their dynamic negotiation of agentic mobile phone use for self-empowerment, the chapters cover womens economic activities, health care, well-being, migration, gendered identity, and the practices of different gender roles.
This comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars and students of media and communication, new and digital media, mobile communication, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, and cultural studies.
Section 1 Introduction
Chapter
1. Introduction
Section 2 Gendered mobile (ex)inclusion across sociocultural milieux
Chapter
2. Chores, Mores, and Digital Doors; Computer and Mobile Pathways to
Digital Skills
Chapter
3. The hidden colonialities of mobile communication: phone uses by
women in a South African rural community
Chapter
4. The digital divides in Hong Kong: A small stories analysis of
older womens use of smartphones and mobile technologies
Chapter
5. Mobile telephony and identity expression of the Senufo women
farmers in Cōte d'Ivoire: A socio-anthropological reflection on the
production and marketing chain of néré
Section 3 Economic (dis)empowerment and mobile communication
Chapter 6 Economic potentials of gendered mobile communication: Digitization
communication and financial independence in East Africa
Chapter
7. Gender and the social impacts of rural mobile finance
Chapter
8. Secrets in the marketplace of intimacy: heterosexuality and mobile
phones in Dar es Salaam
Section 4 Migration of women and mobile-mediated mobility
Chapter
9. Bonding, bridging, and belonging: Smartphone practices of migrant
women from the Global South resettling in Rural-Norway
Chapter
10. Smartphones, shopping and the technomobility of migrant mothers
Chapter
11. Expectation Asymmetries in Mobile Communication of Chinese Study
Mothers (Peidu Mama): Long-Distance Intimacy, Gender Positionality and
Emotion Work
Chapter
12. At the intersection of multiple systems of power: a systematic
review of gender, migrants, and mobiles
Chapter
13. Climate change-induced displacement, gender, and mobile telephony
in West Bengal, India
Section 5 (C)overt resistance and self-expression in negotiated mobile
spaces
Chapter
14. Invisible people have no politics: Becoming middle-class
working women with rural roots in a mobile assemblage
Chapter
15. Mobile Kasambahay: Digital inclusion and the transformation of
everyday life of live-in domestic workers in the Philippines
Chapter
16. An Instagram of Ones Own: Young Indian womens use of mobile
technologies for skilling and work
Chapter
17. Lower-class women and their use of mobile communication in Italy
Chapter
18. Imagining and performing the agentic self: An ethnographic
exploration of Muslim teenage girls mobile youth culture in Flanders
Chapter
19. Feminist resistance on Chinese social media: Guerrilla warfare
under the hashtag
Xin Pei is Lecturer in Media and Communications at the School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne. Her research focus lies in examining the social consequences of adopting information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of marginalization.
Pranav Malhotra is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on how the affordances of social and mobile media intersect with relational and cultural norms to influence how people engage with information and each other in mediated spaces.
Rich Ling recently retired from the Shaw Foundation Professorship of Media Technology, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. For more than three decades, he has studied the social consequences of mobile communication.
