Skyping the Family. Interpersonal video communication and domestic life

• Main Author: Rod Watson (auth)
• Other Authors: Richard Harper (auth), Christian Licoppe (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2019
• Series: Benjamins Current Topics
• Subjects: Pragmatics
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 tal...