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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. 119–145

Showing ‘digital’ objects in web-based video chats as a collaborative achievement

| University of Haifa, Israel
| Telecom ParisTech, France
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Hangouts On Air
    • 2.1Example 1: The collaborative screen-shares of digital images
    • 2.2Example 2: Screen sharing a video clip as a collaborative activity
    • 2.3Example 3: Link-shares and the multiple layers of viewership
  • 3.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 13 August 2019
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