Mobile Technology and Women's Empowerment in Post-Revolution Egypt
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
L. Janelle Elle Ellis Schiemer
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Remillard, Chaseten
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Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Royal Roads University (Canada)
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2017
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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102
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Black, David
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-64349-7
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
Discipline of degree
School of Communication and Culture
Body granting the degree
Royal Roads University (Canada)
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2017
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This study examines how young Egyptian women are accessing and utilizing mobile technology to contribute to their socio-economic empowerment. Toward that end, this project employed qualitative interviews to discover women's lived experience with mobile phones and report their narratives around its impact on their individual development, regarding equity, autonomy and socio-economic transformation. The data shows mobile phones as normalized within their life-worlds characterized by a consistent telecopresence, and a critical cultural analysis reveals its potential to both facilitate and frustrate empowerment for young women in an emerging Arab nation.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Womens studies; Communication; Middle Eastern Studies; North African Studies; Information science; Gender studies
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Subject Term
Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Communication;Egypt;Empowerment;Gender;Mobile phones;Youth