Chhavi Garg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4266895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chhavi Garg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chhavi |
| FAMILY NAME | Garg |
| SIGNATURE | GARG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central University of Punjab |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2629-9939 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Free Smartphones? But Still Finding It Difficult to Find Place for Phones in Their Lives: Understanding Digital Interactions of Older Widow Women in Rural India
This study is an exploration of the digital interactions of older widowed women living in rural India, who received free smartphones under a government scheme aimed at empowering marginalized women. Situated within the intersectionality framework, the research is an analysis of how the interplay of age, gender, widowhood, and rural residence shapes these women’s experiences with technology. Based on semistructured interviews with 16 widowed women…
Using mobile phones to negotiate health and uncertainty: Narratives of cancer patients from rural India
Navigating Technology: Mobile Media Usage and Reticence Among Older Adults in Rural India
With increasing access to mobile devices and media, 77% of the population of India, the most populated nation in the world, are now mobile phone users. This has translated to an increasing user base across demographics, including older rural adults: Most own a dedicated feature phone and share access to a smartphone, while many older couples share access to one dedicated smartphone. With considerably lower literacy rates, especially among older w…
Is Instagram emerging as a site for self-objectification of women? A systematic literature review
Mobile phones, mothers, and patriarchy: Understanding digital interactions of adolescent Indian rural girls under watchful eyes
As mobile media is expanding its roots in rural spheres of the Global South, and that too among girls and women, concerns related to their engagement with digital technologies are also emerging. These concerns are emerging owing to the belief that women are not capable enough to handle digital technologies and may fall prey to untoward and harmful activities. This study tries to understand if and how mothers in rural households become gatekeepers…
(Virtuous) Wives Don't Have Anything to Hide: Understanding Digital Privacy Perceptions and Behavior of Married Women in Rural India
This study explores digital privacy perceptions and behaviors among married women in rural India, a rapidly expanding demographic of mobile media and Internet users in the Global South. This ethnographic study found that women's experience of privacy entails balancing between norms related to 'hide' and 'having nothing to hide.' Specifically, conflicting practices of avoiding online visibility while sharing passwords and accounts with family memb…
Domesticating technology: Learning from the use of mobile phone of small women rural entrepreneurs in India during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic and the worldwide lockdowns that followed the same have led to drastic changes in our lifestyles. While the lockdowns marked a global transition to a world of online services and products, the change was neither easy nor smooth for many. From lack of access to technology to the absence of skills to use it, the act of “going digital” was littered with challenges for people across the world. In the South-Asian country of India…
Finding a home in or through mobile phones: Access and usage patterns among homeless women in shelter-homes of India
With the number of mobile phone subscribers increasing across all sections of society, this paper aims to understand if homeless women in shelter-homes of India have access to mobile phones and, if so, what are their usage patterns. Facilitated by issues ranging from domestic violence to lack of employment to forced migration and even to human trafficking and rape, women residing in the shelter-homes of India have a myriad of stories to tell. Not…
Is Mobile Phone Use Invading Multiple Boundaries? A Study of Rural Illiterate Women in India
Blurring various boundaries of age, place of residence (urban/rural) and sociocultural–economic factors, the mobile phone has become an integral part of everyday life of almost everyone in this world. Through the identification of differences in accessibility and use of technology including the mobile phone, a digital divide is seen to be emerging, and what is of great concern is the emergence of a digital gender divide. The article is based on a…
Is Mobile Phone Use Invading Multiple Boundaries? A Study of Rural Illiterate Women in India
Blurring various boundaries of age, place of residence (urban/rural) and sociocultural–economic factors, the mobile phone has become an integral part of everyday life of almost everyone in this world. Through the identification of differences in accessibility and use of technology including the mobile phone, a digital divide is seen to be emerging, and what is of great concern is the emergence of a digital gender divide. The article is based on a…
(Virtuous) Wives Don't Have Anything to Hide: Understanding Digital Privacy Perceptions and Behavior of Married Women in Rural India
This study explores digital privacy perceptions and behaviors among married women in rural India, a rapidly expanding demographic of mobile media and Internet users in the Global South. This ethnographic study found that women's experience of privacy entails balancing between norms related to 'hide' and 'having nothing to hide.' Specifically, conflicting practices of avoiding online visibility while sharing passwords and accounts with family memb…
Is Mobile Phone Use Invading Multiple Boundaries? A Study of Rural Illiterate Women in India
Blurring various boundaries of age, place of residence (urban/rural) and sociocultural–economic factors, the mobile phone has become an integral part of everyday life of almost everyone in this world. Through the identification of differences in accessibility and use of technology including the mobile phone, a digital divide is seen to be emerging, and what is of great concern is the emergence of a digital gender divide. The article is based on a…
Finding a home in or through mobile phones: Access and usage patterns among homeless women in shelter-homes of India
With the number of mobile phone subscribers increasing across all sections of society, this paper aims to understand if homeless women in shelter-homes of India have access to mobile phones and, if so, what are their usage patterns. Facilitated by issues ranging from domestic violence to lack of employment to forced migration and even to human trafficking and rape, women residing in the shelter-homes of India have a myriad of stories to tell. Not…
Domesticating technology: Learning from the use of mobile phone of small women rural entrepreneurs in India during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic and the worldwide lockdowns that followed the same have led to drastic changes in our lifestyles. While the lockdowns marked a global transition to a world of online services and products, the change was neither easy nor smooth for many. From lack of access to technology to the absence of skills to use it, the act of “going digital” was littered with challenges for people across the world. In the South-Asian country of India…
Navigating Technology: Mobile Media Usage and Reticence Among Older Adults in Rural India
With increasing access to mobile devices and media, 77% of the population of India, the most populated nation in the world, are now mobile phone users. This has translated to an increasing user base across demographics, including older rural adults: Most own a dedicated feature phone and share access to a smartphone, while many older couples share access to one dedicated smartphone. With considerably lower literacy rates, especially among older w…
Is Instagram emerging as a site for self-objectification of women? A systematic literature review
Mobile phones, mothers, and patriarchy: Understanding digital interactions of adolescent Indian rural girls under watchful eyes
As mobile media is expanding its roots in rural spheres of the Global South, and that too among girls and women, concerns related to their engagement with digital technologies are also emerging. These concerns are emerging owing to the belief that women are not capable enough to handle digital technologies and may fall prey to untoward and harmful activities. This study tries to understand if and how mothers in rural households become gatekeepers…
(Virtuous) Wives Don't Have Anything to Hide: Understanding Digital Privacy Perceptions and Behavior of Married Women in Rural India
This study explores digital privacy perceptions and behaviors among married women in rural India, a rapidly expanding demographic of mobile media and Internet users in the Global South. This ethnographic study found that women's experience of privacy entails balancing between norms related to 'hide' and 'having nothing to hide.' Specifically, conflicting practices of avoiding online visibility while sharing passwords and accounts with family memb…
Free Smartphones? But Still Finding It Difficult to Find Place for Phones in Their Lives: Understanding Digital Interactions of Older Widow Women in Rural India
This study is an exploration of the digital interactions of older widowed women living in rural India, who received free smartphones under a government scheme aimed at empowering marginalized women. Situated within the intersectionality framework, the research is an analysis of how the interplay of age, gender, widowhood, and rural residence shapes these women’s experiences with technology. Based on semistructured interviews with 16 widowed women…
Using mobile phones to negotiate health and uncertainty: Narratives of cancer patients from rural India
ICT in Developing Communities (5 works) · Mobile phone (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Digital divide (4 works) · Phone (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works)