Using Pregnancy and Parenting Apps and Social Media During COVID-19: Absence and Sociality, Agency and Cultural Negotiations for South Asian–Origin Women in Australia

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Sukhmani Khorana, Ruth DeSouza, Bhavya Chitranshi
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This article reports on and analyses data from a situated and in-depth project on the experiences of six cisgender South Asian-Australian women/people who gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, negatively racialized women experienced barriers to health care and a lack of social support, which were further exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. International border closures in Australia combined with local mitigation strategies inhibited social and cultural support from families, impacting many migrant mothers/birthing people who gave birth for the first time in Australia. Many hospitals in the states of New South Wales and Victoria instituted restrictions to birthing services as a way of reducing exposure to the coronavirus during the pandemic. Our research suggests that pre-existing limitations of health care providers, digital platforms, and apps with regard to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women in Australia have been amplified during the pandemic. Online Facebook groups from the mothers’ countries of origin or cultural backgrounds, or for mothers who had babies due in the same month, represented a significant source of information and support for the participants. This was particularly important at a time when women’s capacities to engage in traditional cultural practices, which provide practical, emotional, and informational support, were compromised by the inability to garner familial support. We situate these findings in the literature on “performing good motherhood” in neoliberal times and via reliance on digital devices and platforms and what it means for CALD women’s sociality, sense of agency, and negotiations with cultural practices.
在 COVID-19 期间使用怀孕和育儿应用程序及社交媒体:澳大利亚南亚裔妇女的缺席与社交、代理与文化协商
本文报告并分析了一个情境和深度项目中的数据,该项目涉及六名在 COVID-19 大流行期间生育的顺性别南亚裔澳大利亚妇女/人士的经历。在大流行之前,负面种族化的妇女在获得医疗保健和缺乏社会支持方面遇到了障碍,而在 COVID-19 大流行期间,这些障碍进一步加剧。澳大利亚的国际边境关闭加上当地的减灾战略,抑制了来自家庭的社会和文化支持,影响了许多首次在澳大利亚分娩的移民母亲/产妇。在大流行期间,新南威尔士州和维多利亚州的许多医院对分娩服务实施了限制,以减少冠状病毒的传播。我们的研究表明,澳大利亚医疗服务提供者、数字平台和应用程序对不同文化和语言(CALD)妇女的原有限制在大流行期间被放大了。来自母亲原籍国或文化背景国的在线 Facebook 群组,或为预产期在同一个月的母亲而建的在线 Facebook 群组,是参与者获得信息和支持的重要来源。由于无法获得家人的支持,妇女参与传统文化习俗的能力受到了影响,而传统文化习俗能够提供实际、情感和信息支持,在这种情况下,这种支持就显得尤为重要。我们将这些发现与有关新自由主义时代 "履行好母亲职责 "的文献结合起来,通过对数字设备和平台的依赖,探讨其对 CALD 妇女的社会性、代理感以及与文化习俗的协商意味着什么。
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Social Media + Society
Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-
CiteScore
9.20
自引率
3.80%
发文量
111
审稿时长
12 weeks
期刊介绍: Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.
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