ISBN:
9780814784815
,
081478481X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (279 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Critical cultural communication
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wallis, Cara Technomobility in China : Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones
DDC:
303.48330820951
Keywords:
Women Social conditions
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21st century
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China
;
Women Social networks
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China
;
Migration, Internal History
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21st century
;
China
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Technology and women China
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China
;
Electronic books
;
History
;
Technology and women
;
Women Social conditions 21st century
;
Migration, Internal History 21st century
;
Women Social conditions 21st century
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COMPUTERS ; Information Technology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies
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Women ; Social networks
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Migration, Internal
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Technology and women
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Women ; Social conditions
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History
;
China
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
"As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work, but also to "see the world"and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant institutional obstacles as well as deep-seated anti-rural prejudices. Based on immersive fieldwork, Cara Wallis provides an intimate portrait of the social, cultural, and economic implications of mobile communication for a group of young women engaged in unskilled service work in Beijing, where they live and work for indefinite periods of time. While simultaneously situating her work within the fields of feminist studies, technology studies, and communication theory, Wallis explores the way in which the cell phone has been integrated into the transforming social structures and practices of contemporary China, and the ways in which mobile technology enables rural young women--a population that has been traditionally marginalized and deemed as "backward" and "other"--to participate in and create culture, allowing them to perform a modern, rural-urban identity. In this theoretically rich and empirically grounded analysis,Wallis provides original insight into the co-construction of technology and subjectivity as well as the multiple forces that shape contemporary China."--Publisher's website
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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