Introduction: Skilled mediations

Grasseni, Cristina; Gieser, Thorsten

doi:10.1111/1469-8676.12554

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“…I contend that this careful mode of social media practice both produces and conveys intimate emotional experiences of intimacy, an idea inspired by recent work that draws on practice theories of emotion and digital media to argue that emotional experiences are produced by media practices while at once also being expressed and performed through those media practices (Bareither, 2017). I also draw on theories of mediation that see media as not merely subject to use by people but also always training certain sensibilities through people's media engagement (Grasseni & Gieser, 2019). Following from this approach to digital media forms and their "emotional affordances" (Bareither, forthcoming), it is important to address how people practice their competencies of selectively combining, managing, and shifting between different social media uses as an integral part of their situated emotional relationships.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Careful Co-presence: The Transnational Mediation of Emotional Intimacy

Alinejad

2019

Social Media + Society

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This article investigates how migrants experience "co-presence" with their loved ones through social media. On the basis of empirical investigation, the article engages with current debates about how social media shape emotional experiences. It draws on short-term ethnographic research of everyday social media practices among second-generation Turkish-Dutch migrants who grew up in the Netherlands and migrated to Istanbul in adulthood. The article focuses on transnational family intimacy within this migration phenomenon as an in-depth case study for understanding the role of social media platforms and mobile devices in producing emotional experiences of togetherness under conditions of long-distance, long-term separation. The author shows how social media platforms afford not only ambient, fast-paced, background communications-which have been emphasized in the literature, thus far-but also more direct, immersive, conversational modes of communication. The article argues that people's practices of carefully shifting between these modes of social media communication produce their experiences of transnational emotional intimacy. The author develops the notion of careful co-presence through a discussion of how social media practices that produce intimacy reflect both discerning selectivity and emotional care. This argument builds on scholarship that has advanced practice-based approaches to understanding how emotion is mediated through digital media.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Careful Co-presence: The Transnational Mediation of Emotional Intimacy

Alinejad

2019

Social Media + Society

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“…This rich seam of articles, exploring relations in Middle and South America, testifies to the continuing tenacity of the so‐called ontological turn which is prominently represented across this year’s editions (Shapiro 2019; Turk 2019; Hinkson 2019; Barnes 2019; Shapero 2017; Grasseni and Gieser 2019; de Pina‐Cabral 2019). The pioneering editorship of Martin Holbraad at Social Analysis , in particular, ensures that concerns around origin and identity, selfhood and dividuality, belief and cosmos, culture and nature continue to claim priority in research and writing.…”

Section: Backward Glance – Time and Relationsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Exquisite Corpses and backward glances: European social anthropology 2019

Martin

2020

Soc Anthropol

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This article provides an overview of the main European social anthropology journals during 2019. It uses the concept of Exquisite Corpses, a technique devised by the Surrealists, an avant-garde art group of the early 20th century, to suggest a practice of transmitting knowledge across periods of fracture. It argues that this process characterises the way that some aspects of social anthropology's canon continue to be transmitted and remain influential, despite having been superseded by time, fashion and changes in social and academic attitudes. A wide range of scholarship is highlighted. Topics focused on include time, relations, borders, bureaucracy, ethics, and the challenges faced by academics in general and anthropologists in particular. These challenges are driven by the emergence of an authoritarian spirit across a number of fields in Europe and beyond, continuing austerity following on from the economic crisis, and the consolidation of an audit culture that drives the university in an ever more neoliberal direction. Despite the current rigorous climate, European social anthropology continues to be vital and relevant.

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“…2015). Moreover, they are integrated into a multi‐sensorial mediation of skill in their negotiations (Grasenni and Gieser 2019).…”

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Introduction: Auto‐Anthropocenes

Laviolette

Argounova-Low

2021

Social Anthropology

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Is the planet on a one‐way collision course with self‐destruction? Are cars, roads and everything that goes along with them the main culprits for the end of the world as we know it? In addressing the nebulous, amorphous and material ties between vehicles and infrastructure, this Special Section of SA/AS provides some cross‐cultural histories for better understanding commonplace as well as alternative paths, tracks and travel experiences. It also offers ethnographic narratives for the social lives, cultures and lived environments of everyday micro‐journeys or the hyper‐mobilities of human imaginaries. This collection of essays reaches a vantage point for a broad perspective on our long‐term relationship with transport infrastructures – helping to assess their impact on both the built environment and the Earth’s ecosystems.

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Introduction: Skilled mediations

Cited by 14 publications

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Careful Co-presence: The Transnational Mediation of Emotional Intimacy

Careful Co-presence: The Transnational Mediation of Emotional Intimacy

Exquisite Corpses and backward glances: European social anthropology 2019

Introduction: Auto‐Anthropocenes

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