Cara Wallis (Dr.)

Dr. Wallis is an assistant professor of Communication at Texas A&M University. She researches new media technologies as these relate to myriad axes of identity, modes of sociality, and forms of individual and collective agency, particularly among marginalized youth and migrant populations. Her work is informed by critical/cultural studies, feminist theory, and theories of the social shaping of technology. She has expertise in China and conducts much of her research there. She is a recipient of various awards and honors in feminism, communication, and foreign languages. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her fieldwork that examined the use of new media, especially mobile phones, by young rural-to-urban migrant women working in the low-level service sector in Beijing. She is also a member of Mobile Voices (http://vozmob.wordpress.com/; http://vozmob.net/), a project designed to enable low-wage immigrants and others to use basic mobile phones for digital storytelling.