Mobile Technologies and Disadvantaged Women: A Mixed Methods Study of Information Behavior in a D
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| Title: | Mobile Technologies and Disadvantaged Women: A Mixed Methods Study of Information Behavior in a D |
| Author(s): | Potnis, Devendra Dilip |
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Mobile Technologies
Information Behavior Disadvantaged Women Developing Nation |
| 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. |
| Issue Date: | 2009-02-08 |
| Genre: | Conference Poster |
| Type: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/15248 |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2010-03-25 |
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