Technomobility in China : Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones / Cara Wallis.
2013
HQ1767 .W3295 2016
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Title
Technomobility in China : Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones / Cara Wallis.
Author
Wallis, Cara, author.
ISBN
9780814784815
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814795262.001.0001 doi
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HQ1767 .W3295 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.40951
Summary
As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work, but also to "see the world"and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant institutional obstacles as well as deep-seated anti-rural prejudices. Based on immersive fieldwork, Cara Wallis provides an intimate portrait of the social, cultural, and economic implications of mobile communication for a group of young women engaged in unskilled service work in Beijing, where they live and work for indefinite periods of time.While simultaneously situating her work within the fields of feminist studies, technology studies, and communication theory, Wallis explores the way in which the cell phone has been integrated into the transforming social structures and practices of contemporary China, and the ways in which mobile technology enables rural young women-a population that has been traditionally marginalized and deemed as "backward" and "other"-to participate in and create culture, allowing them to perform a modern, rural-urban identity. In this theoretically rich and empirically grounded analysis,Wallis provides original insight into the co-construction of technology and subjectivity as well as the multiple forces that shape contemporary China.
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Critical Cultural Communication ; ; 11
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Mobile Bodies, Mobile Technologies, and Immobile Mobility
1. Market Reforms, Global Linkages, and (Dis) continuity in Post-Socialist China
2. "My First Big Urban Purchase"
3. Navigating Mobile Networks of Sociality and Intimacy
4. Picturing the Self, Imagining the World
5. Mobile Communication and Labor Politics
Conclusion. The Mobile Assemblage and Social Change in China
Appendix: The Fieldwork
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Mobile Bodies, Mobile Technologies, and Immobile Mobility
1. Market Reforms, Global Linkages, and (Dis) continuity in Post-Socialist China
2. "My First Big Urban Purchase"
3. Navigating Mobile Networks of Sociality and Intimacy
4. Picturing the Self, Imagining the World
5. Mobile Communication and Labor Politics
Conclusion. The Mobile Assemblage and Social Change in China
Appendix: The Fieldwork
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author