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OfW

OfW. Clock : autonomy Coin: inequality Cell phone and migration: ?. The medium is the message. OFW. A tenth 14.5 billion remmitances Mostly mothers. Care drain Care chain Surplus love ( Isasken , 2008). It’s “okay”. No excuse not to keep in touch But no , it’s not. General features.

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OfW

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  1. OfW

  2. Clock : autonomy • Coin: inequality • Cell phone and migration: ?

  3. The medium is the message.

  4. OFW • A tenth • 14.5 billion remmitances • Mostly mothers

  5. Care drain • Care chain • Surplus love (Isasken, 2008)

  6. It’s “okay” • No excuse not to keep in touch • But no , it’s not

  7. General features • Text discourages deep conversations • Reach a particular person • Can call but not be called back • It is the act of communication that matters, not the content • Sometimes it’s just practical • Time limit= practical

  8. The mother • Propagate the mother role/ micromanage the household • A false sense of motherhood

  9. The child • Convenience over depth • Intrusive and dragging • Unaware of child’s age

  10. A gap at a crucial period

  11. (a) immediately but also reflectively; • (b) informally but also authoritatively; • and (c) in a manner that is engaged but also detached. • saying things that cannot usually be said face to face.

  12. Medina (2001) identifies: being the breadwinner, homemaker, disciplinarian, and nurturer.

  13. breadwinner • Compromised masculinity • Bruised egos • The “inquiry” • side jobs and delaying calls

  14. Home maker • difficulty

  15. disciplinarian • Undermined since father has no work • Mother has to do it.

  16. nurturer • Double burden for mother.: Care and get job • No depth • Others, mothers know first • I miss you kuno

  17. It’s reconstituted and complicated. Not cooperated.

  18. Sources • Of mobile phones and mother-fathers by Cabanes & Acedera. New Media and Society • Mobile phone parenting by Madianou and Miller. New Media and Society.

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