ABSTRACT

Kathleen M Cumiskey’s feminist research on gender, mobile media, safety, vulnerability and grief has spanned across the previous two decades. This interview focuses on three of Cumiskey’s key texts, and suggests how gendered practices of safety, security and intimacy have changed since the introduction of smartphones. It addresses contemporary changes in mobile and social media practices, and how these influence socio-political smartphone uses. Cumiskey discusses the implications of women’s smartphone practices for generating feelings safety and security in public space; how smartphones can both enhance and limit the ways women participate in public space; and how smartphones engender particular expressions of vulnerability, especially in the context of grief and loss. The interview concludes with a discussion of the subversive potential of mobile media and smartphone communications in opening up transformative modes of engaging with others and the world.

摘要

Kathleen M Cumiskey 对性别、移动媒体、安全、脆弱性和悲伤的女权主义研究跨越了过去二十年。本次采访重点关注 Cumiskey 的三篇关键文本，并提出了自智能手机推出以来，安全、安保和亲密关系的性别化实践发生了怎样的变化。它解决了移动和社交媒体实践的当代变化，以及这些变化如何影响社会政治智能手机的使用。Cumiskey 讨论了女性使用智能手机的做法对在公共空间产生安全感的影响；智能手机如何增强和限制女性参与公共空间的方式；以及智能手机如何产生特定的脆弱性表达，尤其是在悲伤和失落的情况下。