Fun and useful apps: female identity construction and social connectedness using the mobile phone

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Fun and useful apps: female identity construction and social connectedness using the mobile phone

This article explores the domestication of mobile technologies by women and how their identities, as seen through their choices of apps, are interrelated to their social connectedness. Building on existing gender, intimacy and mobile communications literature, this paper provides a needed overview o...

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Main Authors:	Rickard, S., Lloyd, Clare
Other Authors:	Dr Chika Anyanwu
Format:	Conference Paper
Published:	ANZCA 2012
Subjects:	identity smart phones intimacy domestication apps mobile phone gender cell phone
Online Access:	http://www.anzca.net/documents/anzca-12-1/refereed-proceedings-2/594-anzca-2012-rickard-lloyd-1/file.html http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42398

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