Latinas on the Line

MELISSA VILLA-NICHOLAS is an assistant professor at the Harrington School of Media and Communications and the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Her publications include “Data Body Milieu: The Latinx immigrant at the center of technological development” in Feminist Media Studies and “Missing Cells: The Growing Economic Value of Immigrant and Refugee Biological Data" in Bitch Media.  

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Introduction                                                                                                       

1          Why Latinas? Overlapping Technology Histories

2          The Invisible Information Worker                                                        

3          Latinas on the Line                                                                          

4          We Were Family                                                                                        

5          The Telecommunications Life Cycle: Lorraine                

6          Conclusion                                                                                                                

Appendix

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Index