Chapter 3: Doing Feminist Public Relations Research as a Mobile Freelancer: An Autoethnographic Study

I have tried incorporating feminist values into public relations research as a boundary-spanner and research technician. After earning a doctorate in my early 40s, I became a teleworker, dedicating myself to a more sweeping movement. I am marking my identity as a digital public relations researcher, wife, and mother differently while constructing its work–life balance experience flexibly with mobile technology as the authentic part of my freelancing work. This autoethnography will help me present how to freelance using personal experiences and reflexivity. I saw senior feminist scholars with experience and expertise manoeuvring interdisciplinary boundaries between feminist studies and disciplinary thoughts. I will retrace the life courses of such senior feminist scholars with my autobiographical memory of doing public relations research as a mobile freelancer, boundary spanner, and research technician and extending them into future-directed behaviours. I will synthesise (1) my autoethnographic memories to present a subjective sense of self as a mobile freelancer, (2) scholarly ideas in the intersection between feminist studies and disciplinary ideas of public relations to sensitise me to disciplinary ideas, (3) their applications to my reflexivity report for my future qualitative research. I expect to see myself, my career, and my life from a broad perspective as a feminist public relations researcher and mobile freelancer. Additionally, my inquiry about autobiographical memory will help the future of me and other junior public relations scholars.