Smartphones and gender uses: an ethnography on connected women

Authors

  • Camila Rodrigues Pereira Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
  • Sandra Rubia da Silva Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2017.124434

Keywords:

Women, Gender, Low-income groups, Ethnography, Smartphones.

Abstract

This article discusses the relationship between women from low-income groups and the consumption through smartphones based on an ethnographic study carried out in the city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The main goal of the research is to understand what economically disadvantaged women of different generations intend to express through their mobile phones and social media. Four female ethnographic cases, aged between 18 and 44 years, constitute the analysis of this article. As a main consideration, it is possible to affirm that the smartphone, through its various functionalities, enables women belonging to the popular strata to feel included in the digital world, to get to know new forms of communication, to assume different roles in their daily lives and to express aspects about their body, sexuality, their relationship with motherhood and issues of the feminine universe.

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Author Biographies

  • Camila Rodrigues Pereira, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
    Mestre em Comunicação Midiática (UFSM). Graduada em Comunicação Social – Publicidade e Propaganda (UFSM).
  • Sandra Rubia da Silva, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
    Doutora em Antropologia Social (UFSC). Mestre em Comunicação e Informação (UFRGS). Docente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e Cursos de Comunicação Social da UFSM.

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Published

2017-08-14

Issue

Section

ARTICLES

How to Cite

Smartphones and gender uses: an ethnography on connected women. (2017). Novos Olhares, 6(1), 49-59. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2017.124434