Skyping the Family

Interpersonal video communication and domestic life

Editors
ORCID logoRichard Harper | Lancaster University, England
Rod Watson | Telecom ParisTech, Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
Christian Licoppe | Telecom ParisTech, Paris
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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).
[Benjamins Current Topics, 103] 2019.  v, 177 pp.
Publishing status: Available

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Boudouraki, Andriana, Stuart Reeves, Joel E Fischer & Sean Rintel
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Harper, Richard & Dave Randall
2024. Machine Learning and the Work of the User. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) DOI logo
Mertens, Lara J
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Subjects

Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics
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U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2019017838 | Marc record