Mobile Communication and the Family: Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication
Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xiii, 187 pp.
Contains 4 illustrations, index
Series: Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications
ISBN 978-94-017-7441-3 (ebook); 978-94-017-7439-0 (print)
"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." (Publisher description)
1 Asymmetries in Asian Families' Domestication of Mobile Communication / Sun Sun Lim, 1
PART I: VALUES
2 Desiring Mobiles, Desiring Education: Mobile Phones and Families in a Rural Chinese Town / Tom McDonald, 13
3 Balancing Religion, Technology and Parenthood: Indonesian Muslim Mothers' Supervision of Children's Internet Use / Rahayu and Sun Sun Lim, 33
4 Helping the Helpers: Understanding Family Storytelling by Domestic Helpers in Singapore / Kakit Cheong and Alex Mitchell, 51
PART II: INTIMACIES
5 Mobile Technology and "Doing Family" in a Global World: Indian Migrants in Cambodia / Ravinder Kaur and Ishita Shruti, 73
6 The Cultural Appropriation of Smartphones in Korean Transnational Families / Kyong Yoon, 93
7 Empowering Interactions, Sustaining Ties: Vietnamese Migrant Students' Communication with Left-Behind Families and Friends / Becky Pham and Sun Sun Lim, 109
PART III: STRATEGIES
8 Restricting, Distracting, and Reasoning: Parental Mediation of Young Children's Use of Mobile Communication Technology in Indonesia / Laras Sekarasih, 129
9 Paradoxes in the Mobile Parenting Experiences of Filipino Mothers in Diaspora / Ma. Rosel S. San Pascual, 147
10 The Value of the Life Course Perspective in the Design of Mobile Technologies for Older Adults / Pin Sym Foong, 165
PART I: VALUES
2 Desiring Mobiles, Desiring Education: Mobile Phones and Families in a Rural Chinese Town / Tom McDonald, 13
3 Balancing Religion, Technology and Parenthood: Indonesian Muslim Mothers' Supervision of Children's Internet Use / Rahayu and Sun Sun Lim, 33
4 Helping the Helpers: Understanding Family Storytelling by Domestic Helpers in Singapore / Kakit Cheong and Alex Mitchell, 51
PART II: INTIMACIES
5 Mobile Technology and "Doing Family" in a Global World: Indian Migrants in Cambodia / Ravinder Kaur and Ishita Shruti, 73
6 The Cultural Appropriation of Smartphones in Korean Transnational Families / Kyong Yoon, 93
7 Empowering Interactions, Sustaining Ties: Vietnamese Migrant Students' Communication with Left-Behind Families and Friends / Becky Pham and Sun Sun Lim, 109
PART III: STRATEGIES
8 Restricting, Distracting, and Reasoning: Parental Mediation of Young Children's Use of Mobile Communication Technology in Indonesia / Laras Sekarasih, 129
9 Paradoxes in the Mobile Parenting Experiences of Filipino Mothers in Diaspora / Ma. Rosel S. San Pascual, 147
10 The Value of the Life Course Perspective in the Design of Mobile Technologies for Older Adults / Pin Sym Foong, 165
