Women, smartphones and the workplace: Pragmatic realities and performative identities

Feminist Media Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 560-569

  Crowe, Rachel ^a   Middleton, Catherine ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication; Control; Family; Identity; Responsibility; Smartphone; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872682474     PISSN: 14680777     EISSN: 14715902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2012.741872     Document Type: Article

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