Description: Further DetailsTitle: Technomobility in ChinaCondition: NewSubtitle: Young Migrant Women and Mobile PhonesISBN-10: 0814795269EAN: 9780814795262ISBN: 9780814795262Publisher: New York University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/07/2013Description: Winner of the 2014 Bonnie Ritter Book AwardWinner of the 2013 James W. Carey Media Research AwardAs 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 153mmAuthor: Cara WallisGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Gender Sex & Relationships, Language & ReferenceBook Series: Critical Cultural CommunicationType: TextbookRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Technomobility in China
Title: Technomobility in China
Subtitle: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones
ISBN-10: 0814795269
EAN: 9780814795262
ISBN: 9780814795262
Release Date: 01/07/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Language & Reference
Number of Pages: 277 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Technomobility in China : Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Emigration & Immigration, Gender Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Women's Studies, Telecommunications
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Author: Cara Wallis
Item Length: 9.3 in
Series: Critical Cultural Communication Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
