(Im)mobile homes : family life at a distance in the age of mobile media /

"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...

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Main Author:	Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles B. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Interpersonal communication > Technological innovations > Social aspects. Cell phones > Social aspects. Wireless communication systems > Social aspects. Communication and culture. Communication in families. Communication interpersonnelle > Innovations > Aspect social. Transmission sans fil > Aspect social. Communication et culture. Communication dans la famille. Téléphones cellulaires > Aspect social. Cell phones > Social aspects Communication and culture Communication in families Electronic books.
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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"--
Physical Description:	1 online resource : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780197524879 0197524877 9780197524855 0197524850 9780197524862 0197524869