Talk for SCMS (Society for Cinema & Media Studies) about how cell phone commercials gender technology, commodify talk, and legitimize surveillance.

1. Mobile Phones, a Girl’s Best Friend?:
How the Mobile Phone Industry Legitimizes
Surveillance, Commodifies Talk, and Genders
Technology
Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Seattle, WA
March 20, 2014
Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Radio, Television, & Film
University of North Texas
jvickery.com
jacqueline.vickery@unt.edu
@JacVick

3. Domestication of
Technology

5. Surveillance

6. Method

7. 1. Phones as problem / provider as solution

8. 2. Commodification of Talk

9. 3. Gendering Talk

10. 4. Gendering Texting

11. 5. Policing & Regulating
Communication

12. 6. Normalization & Commodification of Surveillance

14. Gendering Data?

16. Mobile Phones, a Girl’s Best Friend?:
How the Mobile Phone Industry Legitimizes
Surveillance, Commodifies Talk, and Genders
Technology
Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Seattle, WA
March 20, 2014
Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Radio, Television, & Film
University of North Texas
jvickery.com
jacqueline.vickery@unt.edu
@JacVick