Coordinating Family Activities
For households containing multiple individuals, it was important to coordinate the daily activities of family members. Face-to-face interaction was the widely used mode of communication between such families. While rarer, there were specific cases where technology was used for coordination purposes.
In rural settings, technology was not widely used for family coordination because it was too costly or simply not needed (since family members would see each other in person in the morning and evening). Instead, only people who had specific jobs that required them to use a mobile phone for work would do so. For example, George used his mobile phone while conducting his motorcycle taxi business to run small errands for his family members who lived in the village with him. He received calls from either of his two wives (whoever had enough credit for calling), his mother or his siblings (or their wives) who lived in the village while driving customers on his motorcycle. They would ask him to buy commodities such as bathing soap or sugar packs while taking customers to or from Awendo. He would then purchase the requested commodity and bring it home if he was dropping a customer off close to his home.
Second, suburban and urban participants who lived with other family members used technology more often for coordinating family activities in comparison to the rural participants. Parents reported using technology to get in
Coordinating Family Activities For households containing multiple individuals, it was important to coordinate the daily activities of family members. Face-to-face interaction was the widely used mode of communication between such families. While rarer, there were specific cases where technology was used for coordination purposes. In rural settings, technology was not widely used for family coordination because it was too costly or simply not needed (since family members would see each other in person in the morning and evening). Instead, only people who had specific jobs that required them to use a mobile phone for work would do so. For example, George used his mobile phone while conducting his motorcycle taxi business to run small errands for his family members who lived in the village with him. He received calls from either of his two wives (whoever had enough credit for calling), his mother or his siblings (or their wives) who lived in the village while driving customers on his motorcycle. They would ask him to buy commodities such as bathing soap or sugar packs while taking customers to or from Awendo. He would then purchase the requested commodity and bring it home if he was dropping a customer off close to his home. Second, suburban and urban participants who lived with other family members used technology more often for coordinating family activities in comparison to the rural participants. Parents reported using technology to get in
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