Mobile Technologies and Disadvantaged Women: A Mixed Methods Study of Information Behavior in a D

Abstract

This dissertation research studies the role of mobile technologies in shaping information behavior of financially disadvantaged women, who own and use mobile cell phones, and earn less than US $1 per day, by working at a domestic business set up in rural India. Wilson’s global model of human information behavior will be used to study the information behavior of a sample population. The research findings will be of great use to public sector organizations, academia as well as private sector organizations in a variety of different ways.