Technomobility in the Margins: Mobile Phones and Young Migrant Women in Beijing
- ISSN: 04194209
Abstract
Tanding of mobile phones. For the women in this study, mobile phones become key signifiers of urban modernity and citizenship in Chinas burgeoning consumer society. They are also linked to modern notions of essentialized femininity and as such are associated with gendered discourses and practices. In addition, cell phones enrich and expand social networks and open up new possibilities for dating and intimacy. At the same time, xi mobile phones can create new disciplinary practices that lead to exclusion, and employers use mobile phones as a method of control. This study adds to the body of scholarship that insists that practices and understandings of new communication technologies must be studied not only among a certain age group or gender, but also as these are intricately connected to and arise within a particular discursive context. In this way, we gain a richer understanding of technological culture. xii
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