Harper2019

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Harper2019
BibType COLLECTION
Key Harper2019
Author(s) Richard Harper, Rod Watson, Christian Licoppe
Title Skyping the Family: Interpersonal Video Communication and Domestic Life
Editor(s) Richard Harper, Rod Watson, Christian Licoppe
Tag(s) EMCA, Skype, Video Communication, Domestic Life
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2019
Language English
City Amsterdam
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DOI 10.1075/bct.103
ISBN 978-90-272-0349-6
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Series Benjamins Current Topics
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Abstract

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.

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