Mobile selves: Gender, ethnicity and mobile phones in the everyday lives of young Pakistani-British women and men

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 506-526

  Green, Eileen ^a   Singleton, Carrie ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Ethnicity; Gender; Identity; Mobile phones; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548348910     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180701560036     Document Type: Article

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