Mobile Communication and the Family

1. Asymmetries in Asian Families’ Domestication of Mobile Communication
Sun Sun Lim

Part I. Values

2. Desiring Mobiles, Desiring Education: Mobile Phones and Families in a Rural Chinese Town
Tom McDonald

3. Balancing Religion, Technology and Parenthood: Indonesian Muslim Mothers’ Supervision of Children’s Internet Use
Rahayu, Sun Sun Lim

4. Helping the Helpers: Understanding Family Storytelling by Domestic Helpers in Singapore
Kakit Cheong, Alex Mitchell

Part II. Intimacies

5. Mobile Technology and “Doing Family” in a Global World: Indian Migrants in Cambodia
Ravinder Kaur, Ishita Shruti

6. The Cultural Appropriation of Smartphones in Korean Transnational Families
Kyong Yoon

7. Empowering Interactions, Sustaining Ties: Vietnamese Migrant Students’ Communication with Left-Behind Families and Friends
Becky Pham, Sun Sun Lim

Part III. Strategies

8. Restricting, Distracting, and Reasoning: Parental Mediation of Young Children’s Use of Mobile Communication Technology in Indonesia
Laras Sekarasih

9. Paradoxes in the Mobile Parenting Experiences of Filipino Mothers in Diaspora
Ma. Rosel S. San Pascual

10. The Value of the Life Course Perspective in the Design of Mobile Technologies for Older Adults
Pin Sym Foong

Keywords: Social Sciences, Communication Studies, Family, Quality of Life Research, Cultural Studies