ISBN:
9781003846413
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (274 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Advances in Mobile Communication Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.23/445082
Keywords:
Technology and women Social aspects
;
Women Social aspects
;
Mobile communication systems Social aspects
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- Part II Gendered mobile (ex)inclusion across sociocultural milieux -- 2 Chores, mores, and digital doors: computer and mobile pathways to digital skills -- 3 The hidden colonialities of mobile communication: phone uses by women in a South African rural community -- 4 The digital divides in Hong Kong: a small stories analysis of older women's use of smartphones and mobile technologies -- 5 Mobile telephony and identity expression of the Senufo women farmers in Côte d'Ivoire: a socio-anthropological reflection on the production and marketing chain of néré -- Part III Economic (dis)empowerment and mobile communication -- 6 Economic potentials of gendered mobile communication: digitization communication and financial independence in East Africa -- 7 Gender and the social impacts of rural mobile finance -- 8 Secrets in the marketplace of intimacy: heterosexuality and mobile phones in Dar es Salaam -- Part IV Migration of women and mobile-mediated mobility -- 9 Bonding, bridging, and belonging: smartphone practices of migrant women from the Global South resettling in Rural-Norway -- 10 Smartphones, shopping, and the technomobility of migrant mothers -- 11 Expectation asymmetries in mobile communication of Chinese "study mothers (Peidu Mama)": long-distance intimacy, gender positionality, and emotion work -- 12 At the intersection of multiple systems of power: a systematic review of gender, migrants, and mobiles -- 13 Climate change-induced displacement, gender, and mobile telephony in West Bengal, India -- Part V (C)overt resistance and self-expression in negotiated mobile spaces.
Abstract:
"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 women's 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"--
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