Skyping the family : : interpersonal video communication and domestic life / / Richard Harper, Rod Watson, Christian Licoppe, editors.

"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 thin...

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Superior document:Benjamins current topics ; Volume 103
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Benjamins current topics ; Volume 103.
Physical Description:1 online resource (183 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality / Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe
  • The 'interrogative gaze': making video calling and messaging 'accountable' / Richard Harper, Sean Rintel, Rod Watson and Kenton O'Hara
  • Skype appearances, multiple greetings and 'coucou': the sequential organization of video-mediated conversation openings / Christian Licoppe
  • Talking about things : image-based topical talk and intimacy in video-mediated family communication / Moustafa Zouinar and Julia Velkovska
  • Showing 'digital' objects in web-based video chats as a collaborative achievement / Laura Rosenbaun and Christian Licoppe
  • The Skype paradox : homelessness and selective intimacy in the use of communications technology / Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Jill Palzkill Woelfer.