Maintenance Affordances and Structural Inequalities: Mobile Phone Use by Low-Income Women in the United Kingdom
dc.contributor.author | Faith, Becky | |
dc.coverage.spatial | United Kingdom | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-04T12:22:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-04T12:22:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Faith, B. (2018) Maintenance affordances and structural inequalities: Mobile phone use by low-income women in the United Kingdom. Information Technologies & International Development (Special Section), 14, 66–80 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/13725 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article shows the impact of “maintenance affordances” on women’s capabilities to use mobile phones to lead lives they value. Analysis of data from a qualitative study of mobile phone use by 30 young low-income women—including 15 who had no access to the Internet other than through their mobile phones—shows how maintaining mobile phones through charge, credit, and repair is a significant burden. These challenges were inextricably bound up with structural inequality experienced by respondents such as poor employment conditions and unaffordable housing. This study therefore proposes a new theoretical framework combining affordances and the capability approach, in which the maintenance affordances of a technology are seen to impact directly on individuals’ capability touse this resource to lead lives they value. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Information Technologies & International Development | en |
dc.rights | Published under Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. All rights not granted thereunder to the public are reserved to the publisher and may not be exercised without its express written permission. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Gender | en |
dc.subject | Poverty | en |
dc.subject | Technology | en |
dc.title | Maintenance Affordances and Structural Inequalities: Mobile Phone Use by Low-Income Women in the United Kingdom | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism | en |
dc.identifier.externaluri | http://itidjournal.org/index.php/itid/article/view/1556/587 | en |
dc.identifier.team | Digital | en |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |
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