Women on the move: the mobile phone as a gender technology

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Autor(a) principal: Ganito, Carla
Data de Publicação: 2010
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/10475
Resumo: 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.
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spelling Women on the move: the mobile phone as a gender technologyMobile phoneTechnology of genderFeminist media studiesTelemóvelTecnologia de GéneroEstudos feministas dos mediaOur 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.As nossas vidas são crescentemente vividas num contexto móvel. A tendência actual na Europa e nos EUA é a da paridade entre homens e mulheres no uso do telemóvel. No entanto paridade no uso não significa igualdade. Tal como acontece com outros artefactos tecnológicos, despreza-se muitas vezes o facto de as mulheres terem uma apropriação muito distinta do telemóvel. No âmbito dos estudos feministas dos media procurar-se-á perspectivar o telemóvel como uma «tecnologia de género» e demonstrar o seu contributo para a construção e transformação de género. O artigo começa por analisar o estado da arte dos estudos feministas dos media e prossegue com a discussão do telemóvel como um media e com o seu posicionamento dicotómico no que diz respeito ao género. O artigo termina com a proposta do telemóvel como uma «tecnologia de género», um local de transgressão e de possível transformação.BondVeritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica PortuguesaGanito, Carla2013-05-09T16:06:06Z20102010-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/10475engGANITO, Carla – Women on the move: the mobile phone as a gender technology. Comunicação & Cultura. Lisboa. ISSN 1646-4877. 9 (Primavera-Verão 2010) 77-881646-487710.34632/comunicacaoecultura.2010.534info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-12T17:15:42Zoai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/10475Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T18:09:16.119780Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Women on the move: the mobile phone as a gender technology
spellingShingle Women on the move: the mobile phone as a gender technology
Ganito, Carla
Mobile phone
Technology of gender
Feminist media studies
Telemóvel
Tecnologia de Género
Estudos feministas dos media
title_short Women on the move: the mobile phone as a gender technology
title_full Women on the move: the mobile phone as a gender technology
title_fullStr Women on the move: the mobile phone as a gender technology
title_full_unstemmed Women on the move: the mobile phone as a gender technology
title_sort Women on the move: the mobile phone as a gender technology
author Ganito, Carla
author_facet Ganito, Carla
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ganito, Carla
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Mobile phone
Technology of gender
Feminist media studies
Telemóvel
Tecnologia de Género
Estudos feministas dos media
topic Mobile phone
Technology of gender
Feminist media studies
Telemóvel
Tecnologia de Género
Estudos feministas dos media
description 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.
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