Mobile Phones, a Girl’s Best Friend?: How the Mobile Phone Industry Legitimizes Surveillance,...

Mobile Phones, a Girl’s Best Friend?: How the Mobile Phone Industry Legitimizes

Surveillance, Commodifies Talk, and Genders Technology

Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Seattle, WAMarch 20, 2014

Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Ph.D.Assistant Professor

Department of Radio, Television, & FilmUniversity of North Texas

jvickery.comjacqueline.vickery@unt.edu

@JacVick

Domestication of Technology

Surveillance

Method

1. Phones as problem / provider as solution

2. Commodification of Talk

3. Gendering Talk

4. Gendering Texting

5. Policing & Regulating Communication

6. Normalization & Commodification of Surveillance

Gendering Data?

Mobile Phones, a Girl’s Best Friend?: How the Mobile Phone Industry Legitimizes

Surveillance, Commodifies Talk, and Genders Technology

Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Seattle, WAMarch 20, 2014

Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Ph.D.Assistant Professor

Department of Radio, Television, & FilmUniversity of North Texas

jvickery.comjacqueline.vickery@unt.edu

@JacVick