http://socio.ch/mobile/t_geser3.htm
In this article he discusses gender roles and cell phones. He discusses that men began to use the technology first, and that women initially were apprehensive. This is shown in statistics. If this is true, I think it could either be the stereotype that men are technologically inclined, so women weren’t as concerned with trying the cell phone out immediately. He also says that men were more likely to check things on their phone, and that women used it for a more emotional means of communication and connection. I don’t necessarily think this is the case solely based on gender but instead of maybe how each gender is expected to communicate with eachother after years and years of conditioning. I personally think that almost everyone in my generation as well as the upcoming generation are addicted to their phones. Meals are posted, family drama is posted, and almost every other thing typically kept within the home is shared. I see this done equally by males and females. However, I think he was referring to the expectation of women being more likely to call, you know, like the stereotype of the bored gossiping housewife.
“Males see the mobile phone primarily as an empowering technology that mainly increases the independence from, not the connectedness with the social environment”.
Oyyyyy. Idk how I feel about all that. Feminist Samantha wants to eye roll. But, maybe he is just suggesting that women have the tendency to create a conversation style with people easily? Even that seems a little biased. Males see the mobile phone as an EMPOWERING technology…… (eye roll). I bet there’s plenty of females setting 6am alarm clocks to begin a long and productive day. They etch in business meetings and family gatherings. It’s the same tool being received by people in the same life circumstances.
Also, if it’s true that women are more connected with cell phones than men, I think it would be on a social media basis and only to upkeep the image that we’re suggested to maintain. It’s like the episode Nosedive from Netflix’s black mirror. (If you haven’t watched that series, seriously, it’s a great binge. You won’t even feel like you wasted your time). It’s essentially saying that people are so stressed trying to maintain, or even earn, this stellar image and response from people. Yes, acceptance is in human nature. However, if cell phone usage differentiates per genders, our social construct of the genders would be the reasoning for it.