Remote mothering and the parallel shift: Women meet the cellular telephone

Rakow, Lana F.; Navarro, Vija

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“…As a consequence, their family lives are extended into their work projects and traditional gender division of labour within households may endure despite mothers' larger participation in the labour force. In fact, the use of the mobile phone described here is one manifestation of what is known as remote mothering in communication studies (Rakow and Navarro, 1993;Lemish and Cohen, 2005). Mediation by artefacts also occurs at the nursery, as the notebooks used by parents and staff members exemplify.…”

Section: Action At a Distancementioning

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Matter(s) of interest: artefacts, spacing and timing

Schwanen

2007

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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ABSTRACT. This paper argues that time-geography can make a contribution to contemporary 'rematerialized' geographies, because the interconnections among social processes, human corporeality and inanimate material artefacts within the landscape were among Hägerstrand's central concerns. Time-geography needs none the less to be extended in several ways to make it more reconcilable with current thinking about materiality in geography. The possibility of combining Hägerstrand's framework with notions from (post) actor-network approaches is therefore explored. It is suggested that concepts and notions from the latter may contribute to the advancement of the conceptualization of action at a distance and agency in general in time-geography, as well as the incorporation of the immaterial realm into space-time diagrams. The resulting materially heterogeneous time-geography is a framework for studying the spacing and timing of different material entities that is sensitive to the role of artefacts and their local connectedness with other material forms. Some of its elements are illustrated briefly through an empirical study of the roles played by a few mundane artefacts in working parents' coping with childcare responsibilities on working days. The case study suggest that these artefacts not only enable goal fulfilment and routinization but also result in further spacing and timing practices, and can introduce uncertainty and novelty to existing orders.

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Section: Action At a Distancementioning

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Matter(s) of interest: artefacts, spacing and timing

Schwanen

2007

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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“…Users were "yuppies," businessmen, and other well-heeled individuals. They were also mostly White, as suggested in initial studies of cellphone use, which asserted that financial barriers had created a "digital divide" between early adopters and non-cellphone users (see Katz & Aspden, 1999;Rakow & Navarro, 1993;Robbins & Turner, 2002). The digital divide was based on class, gender, and race (see Castells, Fernández-Ardèvol, Qiu, & Sey, 2007;Rakow & Navarro, 1993).…”

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“…Some exceptions to the oversight of the racial paradigm in North America include Davin Heckman's (2006) interpretation of racialized representations of cellphone use in Hollywood films and Lana F. Rakow & Vija Navarro's (1993) interpretation of how gender and race intersect in early ads for cellphones in the U.S. These studies notably examine representations of the racial paradigm, rather than cellphone use by particular ethnic or racial groups (see Castells et al, 2007;Leonardi, 2003).…”

Section: Murder and Funmentioning

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“…The divide waned in the late 1990s as the cost of cellphones and service dropped (Castells et al, 2007). With the uptake of cellphone use by a variety of people, researchers turned to examining cellphone use by women and youth and, in recent years, use by poor people, migrants, and people with disabilities (see Castells et al, 2007;Green, 2003;Goggin, 2006;Harper & Hamill, 2005;Horst & Miller, 2006;Ito, Okabe, & Matsuda, 2005;Lycett & Dunbar, 2000;Plant, 2002;Rakow & Navarro, 1993;Shade, 2007).…”

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“…Though the cellphone is often referred to as a telephone without the wire (see Cooper, 2002;Dutton & Nainoa, 2002;Katz, 1997;Rakow & Navarro, 1993;Townsend, 2000), cellular communication is a form of wireless radio that uses antennas placed in overlapping zones to transmit cellphone calls (see Gow & Smith, 2006). By juxtaposing innovations and Dick Tracy, Galambos & Abrahamson add Gould to a genealogy of European and American "founding fathers" (Steinbock, 2003, p. 66), such as Guglielmo Marconi, Alexander Graham Bell, Lars Magnus Ericsson, Samuel Morse, Lee De Forest, and Paul Galvin, who are credited with pioneering telegraphy, telephony, and radio from early to mid-century (see Agar, 2003;Garrard, 1998;Goggin, 2006;Gow & Smith, 2006).…”

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Calling Dick Tracy! or, Cellphone Use, Progress, and a Racial Paradigm

Nicholson

2008

Canadian Journal of Communication

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Abstract:The hero and phone-watch from Dick Tracy are evoked regularly in news and studies of cellphone use. This paper argues that the racial paradigm of White law enforcer and Dark law-breaker in the comic strip resonates in contemporary evocations and in discussions of cellphone use and crime. Representations of mobile communication and racialized criminality in Dick Tracy were inspired by the 1930s "war on crime" that intersected with wireless innovations and with lynching. This paper interprets that repeated evocation of the comic strip is a "perverse nostalgia" for an old-fashioned form of law and order premised on racialized violence and viewing. Keywords: Cultural analysisRésumé : Les études et nouvelles sur l'utilisation du téléphone cellulaire font souvent référence au détective de bande dessinée Dick Tracy et à sa montre téléphonique. Cet article soutient que les évocations et discussions contemporaines sur l'utilisation criminelle du cellulaire reflètent le paradigme racial du policier blanc et du malfaiteur noir évoqué dans la bande dessinée. C'est la « guerre contre le crime » des années 30 influencée par les innovations sans fil et le lynchage de l'époque qui a influencé comment cette bande dessinée représente la communication mobile et la criminalité raciale. Cet article soutient que l'évocation récurrente de Dick Tracy qui a lieu aujourd'hui démontre une « nostalgie perverse » pour une forme ancienne de maintien de l'ordre fondée sur une violence et une lecture raciales.

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Fear and Hope

Spry¹

2012

The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies

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Mobile media are increasingly ubiquitous in the lives of children and young people worldwide. In this chapter, Damien Spry uses case studies from Japan and Australia to examine moral panics and regulatory responses to “children”s use of mobile media. Emphasizing the politicization of young people's mobile media use, he argues that “childhood” and “new media” are discursive sites where the hopes and fears about future generations are powerfully expressed and negotiated. While there is a great deal of public discourse about children and mobile media, Spry notes the relative absence of young people's voices from this discourse, and questions how their voices might be more audible in the debates that affect them.

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Remote mothering and the parallel shift: Women meet the cellular telephone

Cited by 173 publications

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Matter(s) of interest: artefacts, spacing and timing

Matter(s) of interest: artefacts, spacing and timing

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