Influence of mHealth interventions on gender relations in developing countries: a systematic literature review

L Jennings, L Gagliardi - International journal for equity in health, 2013 - Springer
Introduction Research has shown that mHealth initiatives, or health programs enhanced by
mobile phone technologies, can foster women's empowerment. Yet, there is growing …

A double‐edged sword?: a critical evaluation of the mobile phone in creating work–life balance

I Dén‐Nagy - New Technology, Work and Employment, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This article provides a critical review of the literature on the impact of mobile telephony on
work–life balance (WLB). In particular, it focuses on their theoretical frameworks, the nature …

Do online social media cut through the constraints that limit the size of offline social networks?

RIM Dunbar - Royal Society Open Science, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The social brain hypothesis has suggested that natural social network sizes may have a
characteristic size in humans. This is determined in part by cognitive constraints and in part …

Social messengers as the new frontier of organization-public engagement: A WeChat study

WHS Tsai, RL Men - Public relations review, 2018 - Elsevier
Mobile-based social messengers have overtaken social networking sites as the new frontier
for organizations to engage online stakeholders. This study provides one of the earliest …

Does the rise of the Internet bring erosion of strong ties? Analyses of social media use and changes in core discussion networks

E Vriens, E van Ingen - New media & society, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
We derive hypotheses from popular accounts of how use of social media affects our strong
ties. Several authors have suggested that social media use erodes our strong ties by …

“It is easy for women to ask!”: Gender and digital finance in Kenya

S Kusimba - Economic Anthropology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the role of gender in the use of digital finance in Kenya, including the
well‐known case of mobile money but also the emerging use of smartphone apps, payment …

Your mobile phone indeed means your social network: Priming mobile phone activates relationship related concepts

P Kardos, Z Unoka, C Pléh, P Soltész - Computers in Human Behavior, 2018 - Elsevier
Mobile phones have become an integral part of life, drawing researchers' attention to their
behavioral consequences. Yet, we know little about the psychological associations of mobile …

Family networks of mobile money in Kenya

SB Kusimba, Y Yang, NV Chawla - Information Technologies & …, 2015 - itidjournal.org
This research examines the interplay between social networks and mobile money
remittances in Western Kenya. Research was conducted in Kenya's Bungoma and Trans …

[HTML][HTML] You've got a friend in me: How social networks and mobile phones facilitate healthcare access among marginalised groups in rural Thailand and Lao PDR

MJ Haenssgen, N Charoenboon, G Zanello - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
The seeming “ubiquity” of mobile phones has spawned a wave of interventions that use
mobiles as platforms for health service delivery (mHealth). Operating in more than 100 …

Investigating Modern-Day Talaria: Mobile Phones and the Mobility-Impaired in Singapore

A Chib, Q Jiang - Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Revisiting the medical and social models of disability, this study adopted the integrated
biopsychosocial approach to examine experiences of 25 mobility-impaired respondents in …