An Instagram of one's own

Dhavan, Nayana and Oreglia, Elisa and Israni, Anushri (2023) An Instagram of one's own. In: Women’s agency and mobile communication under the radar. Routledge, London, pp. 189-199. ISBN 9781003304197

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Abstract

This chapter explores how young, urban, working-class Indian women use social media to imagine and pursue their work aspirations, and how their socioeconomic status and intersectional identities may limit the potential futures that the internet opened up to their imaginations. We focus on women who are at the margins of urban life and society and typically the first in their families to engage in more formal work and in new forms of small-scale entrepreneurship enabled by the internet. We employ a feminist lens to study self-expression and digital engagement to show that these women’s unprecedented access to the internet, as mediated by social media on mobile phones and furthered by the pandemic, pushed them to envision a myriad of creative, imagined futures. However, their own narratives of restrictions and strategies in using these technologies in existing social contexts shed light on the limits of the seemingly infinite power of the internet.

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Dhavan, Nayana and Oreglia, Elisa and Israni, Anushri
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID Pei, Xin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Malhotra, Pranav UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Ling, Rich UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Document Language:	Language English
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Arts, Communication Studies, Development Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies, Global Development, Humanities, Social Sciences, Urban Studies
Subjects:	Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Groups of people Social sciences > Groups of people Social sciences > Commerce, communications & transportation
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru
Full Text Status:	None
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/6805
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003304197-21

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