Foreword
Abstract
Introduction
1. Motivation and Contribution
2. Research Problem
2.1. The Mobile Phone as a new media
2.2. Portugal as a case study
3. Theoretical Grounding
4. Research Design
5. Structure
Part I – Framing Female Mobility
1. Feminism and Technology
1.1. Early Feminist Theories on Technology
1.2. Feminist Media Studies
1.3. Postmodern Feminist Approaches
2. On the Gendered Use of the Mobile Phone
2.1. Lessons from the Telephone
2.2. Men and women on the phone
2.3. Accounting for complexity in mobile gender practices
Part II – Mapping the Portuguese Mobile Society
1. Gender Practices in Portugal
1.1. Family
1.2. Work and Employment
1.3. Education
1.4. Leisure and the use of Information and Communication Technologies
2. The Portuguese Mobile Society
2.2. Women’s voices
Part III – Constructing and Deconstructing Gender in Mobile Communication
1. The Performativity of Mobile Phones
1.1. Color: Much More than Pink
1.2. Mobile Soundscapes
1.3. Image: Pictures of Home
2. Gender, Space, Place and Control
2.1. Women on the Move – Gendering Mobile Space
3. Gendered Time
3.1. Time Bind
3.2. Multitasking
3.4. Moving Time
3.5. Balancing the triple challenge of time: work, family, and personal time
4. Engendering Techno-Fragility
4.1. Stereotypes old and new
4.2. Mobile Fragilities
Conclusion – Mobilities and Immobilities in the Gendering of the Mobile Phone
Bibliography
Index of Tables
Table 1. Computer usage by gender 2002 to 2008, (%) Individuals between the ages of 16 and 74
Table 2. Internet Users by Gender 2002 to 2008, (%) Individuals between the ages of 16 and 74
Index of Figures
Figure 1. Theoretical grounding
Figure 2. Motorola© Press Advertisement
Figure 3. Playstation© Portable Pink Edition Press Ad
Figure 4. Kodak© Ad, 1910
Figure 5. Kodak© Ad, 1924
Figure 6. Example of Kodak©’s1940’s-50’s Magazine Ads
Figure 7. Example of Kodak©’s 1960’s Magazine Ads
Figure 8. Sony Ericsson© mobile camera phone advertisement
Figure 9. Cartoon showing a woman using a mobile phone in a restaurant
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