"There's an app for that" mediating mobile moms and connected careerists through smartphones and networked individualism

Feminist Media Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 580-589

  Frizzo Barker, Julie ^a   Chow White, Peter A ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apps; Gender; Mobile technology; Networked individualism; Public private spheres; Smartphones; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872681245     PISSN: 14680777     EISSN: 14715902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2012.741876     Document Type: Article

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