Anchored mobilities: Mobile technology and transnational migration

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 323-332

  Williams, Amanda ^a   Anderson, Ken ^b   Dourish, Paul ^a  

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Ethnography; Mobile technology; Mobilility; Transnational

Indexed keywords

TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

AGING; ETHNOGRAPHY; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; MOBILILITY; TRANSNATIONAL;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 57649105646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1394445.1394480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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