| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Mediated (Im)mobilities -- Zones of Reterritorialized Domesticity: 'It's Like Leaving Messages on the Fridge -- Homeland (Dis)connections: 'It's Like I'm in the Philippines' -- Restaging Interrupted Rituals: 'It's As If They're Beside Me' -- Mobile (Un)caring at a Distance: 'You Really Love Us My Son' -- Bittersweet Festivity: 'We're Not Only Here but We're Also There in Spirit' -- Digital Lifeline in Turbulent Times: 'As Long as They're Okay, I'm Okay' -- (Im)mobile Home and Beyond |
| Summary |
"The home is at the forefront of rapid transformation brought upon the expansion of globalising economies, transnational migration, and the widespread uptake of ubiquitous digital communication technologies. This book unravels how geographically dispersed family members use smartphones, social media, and mobile applications in forging and sustaining long-distance relationships. It foregrounds the diverse, personalised, intimate, and creative mobile practices of fragmented family members in the conduct of everyday household interactions, festivities, homeland connections, and crisis management. On the one hand, mobile device use facilitates transnational connectivity, paving the way for enabling intimate ties, care expressions and homeland linkages. Yet, communicative tensions also arise when digital routines are shaped by familial norms and expectations, uneven financial conditions, asymmetrical technological access and capacities, and migration policies and processes. It is by deploying various strategies that transnational family members cope with an often unstable, unsettling, and ambivalent networked environment. Ultimately, this book provides a nuanced perspective on examining the mobilisation of a home from afar in the age of smartphones and mobile applications"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed October 12, 2022) |
| Subject |
Interpersonal communication -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects
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Cell phones -- Social aspects
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Wireless communication systems -- Social aspects
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Communication and culture.
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Communication in families.
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Cell phones -- Social aspects
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Communication and culture
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Communication in families
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021035260 |
| ISBN |
9780197524879 |
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0197524877 |
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9780197524855 |
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0197524850 |
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9780197524862 |
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0197524869 |
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