(2017), « Saudi Women and Socio-Digital Technologies: Reconfiguring Identities », CyberOrient, vol. 11, n° 1. En ligne: http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=9822

Hélène Bourdeloie (1) , Caterina Gentiloni Silveri , Sara Houmair (2)

1 UP13 - Université Paris 13
2 UPD5 - Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5

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 whole range of choices on how to communicate and use photography, thus enabling them to circumvent their assigned gender identity, at least at the margin.

Mots clés: social media; identity; Muslim women; gender; Saudi Arabia

Hélène Bourdeloie, Caterina Gentiloni Silveri, Sara Houmair. (2017), « Saudi Women and Socio-Digital Technologies: Reconfiguring Identities », CyberOrient, vol. 11, n° 1. En ligne: http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=9822. CyberOrient, 2017, 11 (1). ⟨sic_02106100⟩