Globital Home: Life

Abstract

This chapter addresses how mobile and social technologies in the domain of the home and everyday life are transforming women’s memories of parenting and family life. It draws on two original empirical studies carried out in London in 2009 and 2015 conducted with samples of digitally born women and digitally migrant women. The studies are compared with worldwide studies on women and mobile technologies to suggest that the mobile phone, social networking, and on-line photo sharing sites are transforming in contradictory ways gendered memories in the Globital Age. While mobile and social technologies ostensibly provide new memories of women’s hitherto marginalised domestic and affective everyday work, they also imprison women in an oppressive network of mnemonic surveillance.