ICT, INTERMEDIARIES, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF GENDERED POWER STRUCTURES
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Oreglia, Elisa; Srinivasan, Janaki
署名单位：
Nanyang Technological University; International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT Bangalore)
刊物名称：
MIS QUARTERLY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0276-7783
DOI：
10.25300/MISQ/2016/40.2.13
发表日期：
2016
页码：
501-510
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摘要：
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are believed to hold much potential to empower women, both socially and economically, in low-income and rural communities. In this paper, we focus on rural women who mediate ICT use as telecenter operators in India and as helpers and enablers for family members in rural China. We explore under what circumstances they may be able to renegotiate existing gendered power structures. We argue that acts of reconciling or confronting the different spaces they inhabit can allow intermediaries to remake their own identities and positions in their community. This process, rather than the potential associated with ICTs, is where spaces for empowerment often lie.
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