TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lingam,Lakshmi
AU  - Mkhwanazi,Nolwazi
TI  - DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND GENDERED REALITIES
SN  - 9781040124956
U1  - 303.48/33 23/eng/20240916
PY  - 2024///
CY  - [S.l.]
PB  - ROUTLEDGE INDIA
KW  - Smartphones
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
N2  - The book explores the varying experiences and engagement of youth with smartphones and digital technologies in India and South Africa. It examines the process of meaning-making (identity construction) garnered through smartphone technology -- specifically relating to notions of love, sex, and sexuality. A keen reappraisal of the smartphone revolution, the essays underline the constant negotiations between technology and social institutions such as, family, schools, colleges\universities, religious groups, traditional community leaders, media, police, law, and governments. The volume looks at new forms of digital-based surveillance on girls, women and gender minorities and maps the responses of state, civil society and women's movements in tackling the divergent narratives of freedom versus control; empowerment versus violence. It specifically looks at how concepts of privacy', agency', autonomy' and consent' are being framed in the legal arena regarding young women, which may or may not be empowering of their agency and choices. Challenging notions about gender, technology and society, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of sociology and social anthropology, politics, gender studies, and Global South studies
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003049791
ER  -