Saudi Women and Socio-Digital Technologies: Reconfiguring Identities

Saudi Women and Socio-Digital Technologies: Reconfiguring Identities

Saudi Women and Socio-Digital Technologies: Reconfiguring Identities
Hélène Bourdeloie, Caterina Gentiloni Silveri, Sara Houmair Article Drawing on research conducted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this paper explores the specific uses of digital technologies by Saudi women. It shows how these women – whose gender identity is strongly constrained by a host of social and religious norms characterizing Saudi society – make use of digital technologies, and particularly mobile telephones. The various applications available for mobile telephony open up to them a…