TY - JOUR
T1 - Women on the move
T2 - the mobile phone as a gender technology
AU - Ganito, Carla
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Our lives are increasingly performed within a mobile context. The current trend in Europe and the USA is a balance between men and women in mobile phone usage. Nevertheless usage parity does not mean usage equality. It is mostly ignored that women’s appropriation of the mobile phone is very distinct from men’s, similarly to what happens with other technological objects. Grounding the research in feminist media theory, this paper offers a view of the mobile phone as a technology of gender. I seek to show that the mobile phone contributes to gender construction and transformation. The paper begins with an analysis of the state of the art of feminist media studies. It follows by discussing the mobile phone as a media and its dichotomous position with regards to gender. The paper finalizes with a proposition of the mobile phone as a technology of gender, a place for gender transgression and possible transformation.
AB - Our lives are increasingly performed within a mobile context. The current trend in Europe and the USA is a balance between men and women in mobile phone usage. Nevertheless usage parity does not mean usage equality. It is mostly ignored that women’s appropriation of the mobile phone is very distinct from men’s, similarly to what happens with other technological objects. Grounding the research in feminist media theory, this paper offers a view of the mobile phone as a technology of gender. I seek to show that the mobile phone contributes to gender construction and transformation. The paper begins with an analysis of the state of the art of feminist media studies. It follows by discussing the mobile phone as a media and its dichotomous position with regards to gender. The paper finalizes with a proposition of the mobile phone as a technology of gender, a place for gender transgression and possible transformation.
KW - Mobile phone
KW - Technology of gender
KW - Feminist media studies
KW - Telemóvel
KW - Tecnologia de género
KW - Estudos feministas dos media
U2 - 10.34632/comunicacaoecultura.2010.534
DO - 10.34632/comunicacaoecultura.2010.534
M3 - Article
SN - 1646-4877
SP - 77
EP - 88
JO - Comunicação & Cultura
JF - Comunicação & Cultura
IS - 9
ER -