Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications brings to attention the histories of Latinas in telecommunications, demonstrating how these histories contribute to the larger canons on Latina labor, communications, race, gender, and social constructions of technology. Through their intersectional identities, Latinas in telecommunications offer particular insights to the history of telecommunications and their own ‘belonging’ within these technological spaces.
Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications brings to attention the histories of Latinas in telecommunications, demonstrating how these histories contribute to the larger canons on Latina labor, communications, race, gender, and social constructions of technology. Through their intersectional identities, Latinas in telecommunications offer particular insights to the history of telecommunications and their own ‘belonging’ within these technological spaces.
MELISSA VILLA-NICHOLAS is an assistant professor at the Harrington School of Media and Communications and the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Her publications include “Data Body Milieu: The Latinx immigrant at the center of technological development” in Feminist Media Studies and “Missing Cells: The Growing Economic Value of Immigrant and Refugee Biological Data" in Bitch Media.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Why Latinas? Overlapping Technology Histories 2 The Invisible Information Worker 3 Latinas on the Line 4 We Were Family 5 The Telecommunications Life Cycle: Lorraine 6 Conclusion
Appendix Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Why Latinas? Overlapping Technology Histories 2 The Invisible Information Worker 3 Latinas on the Line 4 We Were Family 5 The Telecommunications Life Cycle: Lorraine 6 Conclusion
Appendix Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
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