Playing with fire: On the domestication of the mobile phone among Palestinian teenage girls in Israel

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-166

  Hijazi Omari, Hiyam ^a   Ribak, Rivka ^b  

^a Ort Brotherhood Regional High School ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Courtship; Domestication; Gender; Israel; Mobile phone; Palestinian; Technology; Teenage girls; Telephone; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149083486     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180801934099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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