Digital Media Practices in Households

Hjorth, Larissa; Ohashi, Kana; Sinanan, Jolynna; Horst, Heather A.; Pink, Sarah; Kato, Fumitoshi; Zhou, Baohua

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“…Digital media use often produces co-presence routines (Nedelcu & Wyss, 2016), contributing to producing transnational affective capital or a sense of belonging and ontological security (Leurs, 2014). More specifically, multiple mobile platforms, such as WhatsApp (O'Hara et al, 2014), Facebook (Acedera & Yeoh, 2018;Cabalquinto, 2018a;Mintarsih, 2019), and Skype (Marino, 2019), have been used to produce mundane, random, and personalised contents and maintain transnational familial intimacy (Hjorth et al, 2020).…”

Section: Digitalisation and The Mediation Of Transnational Intimacymentioning

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The transnationalisation of intimacy: family relations and changes in an age of global mobility and digital media

Cabalquinto¹,

Yang²

2023

Handbook on Migration and the Family

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This chapter develops the 'transnationalisation of intimacy' as a conceptual lens to critically investigate the performance, embodiment and negotiation of transnational familial intimacy in a fast-evolving globalising and digital society. This is achieved by conducting a state-ofthe-art review of theories and empirical studies on family relations and practices in a transnational context. We discuss how transnational familial intimacy is shaped by the conflation of structural and technological forces, which at once reinforces and challenges social and cultural norms of the family. We first show that intimate family practices are engendered and undermined by mobility regimes and infrastructures. We then illuminate how communicative practices pave the way for transnational linkages. However, inequalities may play out in the transnationalisation of familial intimacy, especially when material and symbolic forces are embedded in an unequal terrain. Finally, we consider the implications of transnationalism for (de)normalising family relations and practices, in creating distinctive, new transnational forms of intimacy between family members. In sum, this chapter draws attention to the mutually constitutive nature of transnationalism and changing family relations in a global and digital age.

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Section: Digitalisation and The Mediation Of Transnational Intimacymentioning

confidence: 99%

The transnationalisation of intimacy: family relations and changes in an age of global mobility and digital media

Cabalquinto¹,

Yang²

2023

Handbook on Migration and the Family

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“…For many migrant populations, care, sentimental, and affectual efforts invested into family and friendship networks can be just as critical for creating opportunities for economic mobility as well as for creating a sense of “home” through a lived or imagined community. In a recent ethnography of camera phones, social media, and sharing in Japan, China, and Australia, the use of paralinguistics such as emojis, LINE stamps, and WeChat stickers has provided ways for intergenerational care at a distance and filial piety (Hjorth et al, 2020). Insights from the sharing and circulation of goods reveal that materiality and meaning are often inseparable and further, the meanings attached to things are often embedded in social and cultural values, beyond economic ones.…”

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Storing and sharing: Everyday relationships with digital material

Horst

Sinanan

Hjorth

2021

New Media & Society

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Solid-state drives, Bluetooth capabilities, smartphones, “the cloud,” social media platforms, and other digital technologies have fundamentally altered how we share and store digital materials. This article sets an agenda for understanding how people manage the proliferation of digital material in their everyday lives through a close examination of the strategies and rituals different people around the world employ to organize, curate, or delete digital materials. Drawing upon findings from 11 articles, it contextualizes contemporary forms with digital media and technologies with existing cultural practices of sharing and storing in relation to wider social and cultural systems and infrastructures such as household and family, logistics, health, government, and governance. We argue that the proliferation of platforms, changes in temporalities, and the emergence of different forms of digital labor have fundamentally shaped the ways in which we share and store digital material.

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Digital Media Practices in Households

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The transnationalisation of intimacy: family relations and changes in an age of global mobility and digital media

The transnationalisation of intimacy: family relations and changes in an age of global mobility and digital media

Storing and sharing: Everyday relationships with digital material

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