@article{Cruz_Harindranath_2020, title={WhatsApp as ’technology of life’: Reframing research agendas}, volume={25}, url={https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/10405}, DOI={10.5210/fm.v25i12.10405}, abstractNote={<p>In this paper, we present a few ethnographic vignettes on the use of WhatsApp from a study in Mexico City. We suggest WhatsApp is a paradigmatic example of how a particular technology becomes an infrastructure to sustain, and therefore shape, a wide range of quotidian activities, from personal to economic, from spiritual to political. WhatsApp exemplifies what we call <em>technologies of life</em>, as such technologies mediate almost all aspects of social life. On this basis, we propose two interventions into the research agenda that go beyond data-centric approaches and focus on the lived-experiences of individuals, families, and communities.</p>}, number={12}, journal={First Monday}, author={Cruz, Edgar Gómez and Harindranath, Ramaswami}, year={2020}, month={Jan.} }