Mobile phones without guarantees: The promises of technology and the contingencies of culture

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 471-485

  Wallis, Cara ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; gender; labor; migrant workers; mobile phones; positionality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957799261     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810393904     Document Type: Article

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