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Skyping the family : interpersonal video communication and domestic life / edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Benjamins current topics ; Volume 103.
- Benjamins current topics ; Volume 103
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication in families--Effect of technological innovations on.
- Communication in families.
- Digital communications--Social aspects.
- Digital communications.
- Skype (Electronic resource).
- Physical Description:
- 1 Online Ressource
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This collection is one of the first in-depth studies of video calling in family and domestic life. It explores the reasons that people themselves provide to explain their video calling, investigates how these reasons make that calling accountable and how, in turn, these reasons come to be things talked about in the calls themselves. The research shows how video calling is part of the currency of contemporary family affection: such calls are not just about keeping in touch, they are a way of loving too; and they are sometimes a way of fighting as well. 'Skyping' or 'Facetiming' might be frequent and can seem mundane - just a question of routine - but what they entail is a measure of important things to families. This makes this collection of interest to anyone concerned with family life and the evolving ways in which technology has a role in it. Originally published as a special issue of Pragmatics 27:3 (2017)"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality
- The ‘interrogative gaze’
- Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’
- Talking about things
- Showing ‘digital’ objects in web-based video chats as a collaborative achievement
- The Skype paradox
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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