Women’s Agency and Mobile Communication Under the Radar

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.

• Section 1 IntroductionChapter 1. Introduction Section 2 Gendered mobile (ex)inclusion across sociocultural milieux Chapter 2. Chores, Mores, and Digital Doors; Computer and Mobile Pathways to Digital Skills Chapter 3. The hidden colonialities of mobile communication: phone uses by women in a South African rural community Chapter 4. The digital divides in Hong Kong: A small stories analysis of older women’s use of smartphones and mobile technologiesChapter 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 Section 3 Economic (dis)empowerment and mobile communication Chapter 6 Economic potentials of gendered mobile communication: Digitization communication and financial independence in East AfricaChapter 7. Gender and the social impacts of rural mobile finance Chapter 8. Secrets in the marketplace of intimacy: heterosexuality and mobile phones in Dar es SalaamSection 4 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-NorwayChapter 10. Smartphones, shopping and the technomobility of migrant mothersChapter 11. Expectation Asymmetries in Mobile Communication of Chinese ‘Study Mothers (Peidu Mama)’: Long-Distance Intimacy, Gender Positionality and Emotion WorkChapter 12. At the intersection of multiple systems of power: a systematic review of gender, migrants, and mobilesChapter 13. Climate change-induced displacement, gender, and mobile telephony in West Bengal, IndiaSection 5 (C)overt resistance and self-expression in negotiated mobile spacesChapter 14. “Invisible people have no politics”: Becoming middle-class working women with rural roots in a mobile assemblage Chapter 15. Mobile Kasambahay: Digital inclusion and the transformation of everyday life of live-in domestic workers in the PhilippinesChapter 16. An Instagram of One’s Own: Young Indian women’s use of mobile technologies for skilling and workChapter 17. Lower-class women and their use of mobile communication in Italy Chapter 18. Imagining and performing the agentic self: An ethnographic exploration of Muslim teenage girls’ mobile youth culture in FlandersChapter 19. Feminist resistance on Chinese social media: Guerrilla warfare under the hashtag