This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. While mobile communication diffuses through Asia at a blistering pace, families in the region are also experiencing significant changes in light of unprecedented economic growth, globalisation, urbanisation and demographic shifts. Asia is therefore at the crossroads of technological transformation and social change. This book analyses the interactions of these two contemporaneous trends from the perspective of the family, covering a range of family types including nuclear, multi-generational, transnational, and multi-local, spanning the continuum from the media-rich to the media have-less.
Chapter 1: Asymmetries in Asian Families' Domestication of Mobile Communication.- Values.- Chapter 2: Desiring Mobiles, Desiring Education: Mobile Phones and Families in a Rural Chinese Town.- Chapter 3: Balancing Religion, Technology and Parenthood: Indonesian Muslim Mothers' Supervision of Children's Internet Use.- Chapter 4: Helping the helpers: Understanding Family Storytelling by Domestic Helpers in Singapore.- Intimacies.- Chapter 5: Mobile Technology and Doing Family in a Global World: Indian Migrants in Cambodia.- Chapter 6: The Cultural Appropriation of Smartphones in Korean Transnational Families.- Chapter 7: Empowering Interactions, Sustaining Ties: Vietnamese Migrant Students' Communication with Left-Behind Family and Friends.- Strategies.- Chapter 8: Restricting, Distracting, and Reasoning: Parental Mediation of Young Children's Use of Mobile Communication Technology in Indonesia.- Chapter 9: Paradoxes in the Mobile Parenting Experiences of Filipino Mothers in Diaspora.- Chapter 10: The Value of the Life Course Perspective in the Design of Mobile Technologies for Older Adults.
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