ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the complexities of digital media use in the management of personal space and relational life by exploring how migrant mothers struggle to deal with transnational mothering. It critically analyzes the potentials and limitations of digital media, mobile phones and the Internet in particular, in creating intimacy in material and symbolic ways across transnational spaces, poviding empirical data on the lives and experiences of migrant mothers. The chapter argues that, while the perpetual connectivity of the digital media in family life may appear to serve as an instrument of intimacy and empowerment for migrant mothers, it can also become a new source of digital fatigue and morality, double burdens, and anxieties about the uncertain consequences of transnational communications. It presents the unresolved ambivalence and complexity of digital media use, intimacy, and digital fatigue and the struggle over morality of mothering as mediated by routine connections.
