Dr. Pranav Malhotra, assistant professor of Communication and Media, has co-edited (with Xin Pei and Rich Ling) the book Women’s Agency and Mobile Communication Under the Radar, published on February 1, 2024 with Routledge. This book brings together work on marginalized women and the role mobile communication plays in their lives and has chapters from India, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Philippines, Kenya, Italy, and Norway among others. The central question animating all this work is how we understand the impact of access to mobile communication on gender, marginalization, and agency. Authors featured in the book address this in nuanced and non-deterministic ways, foregrounding contextual, cultural, & structural factors.
