Skyping the Family : : Interpersonal Video Communication and Domestic Life.

This collection is one of the first in-depth studies of video calling in family and domestic life. Originally published as a special issue of Pragmatics, issue 27:3 (2017).

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Superior document:Benjamins Current Topics Series ; v.103
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2019.
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Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Benjamins Current Topics Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (185 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Skyping the Family
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality
  • 1. Background
  • 2. Perspectives on mediated communications
  • 3. The need for a different approach
  • 4. Evidence from within
  • 5. Overview of the book
  • References
  • Authors' addresses
  • The 'interrogative gaze': Making video calling and messaging 'accountable'
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Approach to evidence
  • 3. Evidence in everyday reasoning about Skype
  • 4. Why Skype?
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Authors' addresses
  • Skype appearances, multiple greetings and 'coucou': The sequential organization of video-mediated conversation openings
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Analysis
  • 3. Conclusion
  • References
  • Author's address
  • Talking about things: Image-based topical talk and intimacy in video-mediated family communication
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background: Topical talk
  • 3. Showings as visual turn taking in storytelling between relatives
  • 4. Noticings as intimacy achieving practices
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix. Transcription conventions
  • Authors' addresses
  • Showing 'digital' objects in web-based video chats as a collaborative achievement
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Hangouts On Air
  • 3. Conclusion
  • References
  • Authors' addresses
  • The Skype paradox: Homelessness and selective intimacy in the use of communications technology
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Analysis
  • 3. Conclusion: Reasons, causes, evidentiality
  • References
  • Authors' addresses
  • Index.