Digitally mediated (dis)empowerment paradox in women-led group-buying during the Shanghai COVID lockdown
Hao Cao,
Yujie Zhong
Abstract:Extant scholarship increasingly attends to the mixed—and paradoxical—incorporation of information and communication technologies in social lives. Building on existing research, this study further explicates how digitally mediated (dis)empowerment paradoxes stem from the interactions among unevenly transformed structural affordances and constraints in the political, market, socio-cultural, and technological realms under digitalized contexts. Drawing on ethnographic data on women-led digital group-buying during … Show more
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