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WHDL - 00009929

Mediated mothering : a case study of the utilization of media and family communication among OFW mothers in Taiwan Higher Ground Community Church

Kristobelle Anne S. Ong

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English

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Description / Abstract

Family is the basic structure of a single unit of community. In an ideal model of a family setting, mothers play an important of providing guidance and nurture in raising their children. Mothers' basic roles are to teach their children in their home works, and to take care of them in times of sickness. However, with the rise of overseas employment, motherhood roles had been altered. Its consequences and effects had become a mediated mothering. This study on the usage of media among the OFW mothers sought to find how the OFW mothers in Taiwan Higher Ground Community Church communicate with their children left in the Philippines through the various media and telecommunications such as mobile phones, Skype, Facebook and other social networks. Guided by Joseph B. Walther's Hyperpersonal Computer Mediated Communication (2011), this OFW mother case study administered qualitative methods, such as interviews, participant and field observation, and open-ended questionnaire. The OFW mothers in Taiwan Higher Ground Community Church represented the cases of mediated mothering, in which they perform their roles and duties through the utilization of mobile phones and Skype as the main channel of their communication with their children. Through the geographical separation and long distance relationship of the OFW mothers with their children, homesickness, problems in discipline, and emotional anxieties were the common experiences of the OFW mothers. In this given condition, the role of the religious community, Taiwan Higher Ground Community Church had been significant in ministering to the spiritual and emotional needs of the OFW mothers.