Abstract
This essay explores women and mobile intimacy through the story of "Neighborhoodworks.net"- a community-cooperative, never-launched Wi-Fi zone in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati-that intended to serve poor, unemployed, ambiguously raced single mothers whom project advocates called "Vanessa." "Vanessa" is significant as a "post-welfare" figure of feminine poverty who individualizes what, at other moments in history, has been understood as a political problem that demanded remedy via collective action. I conclude by calling on feminist scholars to move beyond taken-forgranted notions about the rewards of mobile privatization, and instead, embrace political struggle.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 517-527 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Feminist Media Studies |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2012 |
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Gender Studies
- Communication
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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Post-welfare mothers in Wi-Fi zones : Dreams of (im)mobile privatization in a neo-post world. / Rodino, Michelle Lyn.
In: Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 12, No. 4, 01.12.2012, p. 517-527.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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