TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rod Watson
AU  - Richard Harper
AU  - Christian Licoppe
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.1075/bct.103
ID  - OAPEN ID: 35816
KW  - Pragmatics
L1  - https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027262240
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/59459
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9789027262240
SN  - 9789027203496
TI  - Skyping the Family. Interpersonal video communication and domestic lifenull
ER  - 
