作者：CaraWallis
出版社：NYUPress
副标题：YoungMigrantWomenandMobilePhones
出版年：2013-1-7
页数：277
定价：USD45.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780814795262
内容简介
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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.
作者简介
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I study the social and cultural implications of new media technologies and issues of power, difference, and subjectivity, particularly in China. My work examines how uses and understandings of technology both reproduce inequitable power relations and open up spaces for individual and collective agency and thus, social change. I am the author of Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones (NYU Press, 2013), which is an ethnographic exploration of the use of mobile phones by young rural-to-urban migrant women working in the low-level service sector in Beijing. I am currently working on a manuscript based on my recent research in China, where I examined the use of social media by different groups of people – white collar workers, college students, migrant workers, and rural entrepreneurs – and how such usage is articulated to issues of voice and empowerment, trust and risk, and lifestyle and aspirations.
目录
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Mobile Bodies Mobile Technologies and Immobile Mobility
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1 Market Reforms Global Linkages and Discontinuity in PostSocialist China
29
Mobile Technologies and Modern Subjectivity
63
3 Navigating Mobile Networks of Sociality and Intimacy
91
4 Picturing the Self Imagining the World
119
5 Mobile Communication and Labor Politics
145
The Mobile Assemblage and Social Change in China
评论 ······
从手机来看becoming打工妹的状态。手机一方面是governmentality对普通人的内化，一方面是个体承认，反抗，重塑话语建造。selective vs necessary convergence的提法较有新意，其他的民族志部分较为平庸。（很希望看到更多农村这类科技的使用，来和打工妹的手机研究相呼应，真正挖掘出unheard和invisible。）
For research.
非常棒的ethnography，避免了决定论的问题，讲到了很多nuance，发掘了底层的声音。不过，也许是因为作者对手机的定义相对比较instrumental的关系，她似乎对手机里的内容并不感兴趣，倾向于把手机定义成一个technological tool for nongmingong self use and gratification – 虽然作者的理论框架比使用与满足更加地复杂)，所以失去…
Immobile mobility.
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