Techno-Sustenance and the Possibilities for Social Transformation
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Cara Wallis, Texas A&M University Cara Wallis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. She studies new media technologies and issues of power, difference, subjectivity, and social change, particularly in China. Her forthcoming book, Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones (NYU Press), is an ethnographic exploration of the use of mobile phones by young rural-to-urban migrant women working in the low-level service sector in Beijing.
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