Women’s Agency and Mobile Communication Under the Radar

Part I Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction

Xin Pei, Pranav Malhotra, and Rich Ling 

Part II Gendered mobile (ex)inclusion across sociocultural milieux 

Chapter 2.  Chores, mores, and digital doors: computer and mobile pathways to digital skills

Araba Sey, Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh, and Marcia Abonie

Chapter 3. The hidden colonialities of mobile communication: phone uses by women in a South African rural community

Lorenzo Dalvit

Chapter 4. The digital divides in Hong Kong: a small stories analysis of older women’s use of smartphones and mobile technologies

Margo Turnbull and Alice H.Y. Yau

Chapter 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

Kabran Aristide Djane, Portia Mureille Kone, and Aminata Bamba

Part III Economic (dis)empowerment and mobile communication 

Chapter 6 Economic potentials of gendered mobile communication: digitization communication and financial independence in East Africa

Leah Jerop Komen

Chapter 7. Gender and the social impacts of rural mobile finance

Erin B. Taylor, Isaac Lyne, and Rida Akzar

Chapter 8. Secrets in the marketplace of intimacy: heterosexuality and mobile phones in Dar es Salaam

Laura Stark

Part IV 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

Wenche Nag

Chapter 10. Smartphones, shopping, and the technomobility of migrant mothers

Tom McDonald and Holy Shum

Chapter 11. Expectation asymmetries in mobile communication of Chinese "study mothers (Peidu Mama)": long-distance intimacy, gender positionality, and emotion work

Yang Wang

Chapter 12. At the intersection of multiple systems of power: a systematic review of gender, migrants, and mobiles

Gabrielle C. Ibasco, Mengxuan Cai, and Arul Chib

Chapter 13. Climate change-induced displacement, gender, and mobile telephony in West Bengal, India

Sirpa Tenhunen

Part V (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

Troy Zhen Chen and La-Mei Chen

Chapter 15. Mobile Kasambahay: digital inclusion and the transformation of everyday life of live-in domestic workers in the Philippines

Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco and Hannah Faith P. Saab

Chapter 16. An Instagram of one’s own: young Indian women’s use of mobile technologies for skilling and work

Nayana Dhavan, Elisa Oreglia, and Anushri Israni

Chapter 17. Lower-class women and their use of mobile communication in Italy

Leopoldina Fortunati

Chapter 18. Imagining and performing the agentic self: an ethnographic exploration of Muslim teenage girls’ mobile youth culture in Flanders

Tom De Leyn, Mariek Vanden Abeele, and Ralf De Wolf

Chapter 19. Feminist resistance on Chinese social media: guerrilla warfare under the hashtag

Aizi Chang

Biography

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.