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Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life
Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe
[Benjamins Current Topics 103] 2019
► pp. 19–49

The ‘interrogative gaze’

Making video calling and messaging ‘accountable’

| Lancaster University, England
| Microsoft Research, Cambridge
| Telecom ParisTech, Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
| University of Bristol, Cambridge
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Approach to evidence
  • 3.Evidence in everyday reasoning about Skype
  • 4.Why Skype?
    • 4.1Particular reasons
    • 4.2Reasons to interrogate
    • 4.3Reasons as a particular kind of feature of social interaction
    • 4.4Reasons not to Skype
    • 4.5Reasons as a vocabulary for accountability
    • 4.6Reasons beyond sight
    • 4.7Reasons as located acts
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 13 August 2019
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