Digital Media Practices in Households

Kinship Through Data
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6298-950-4
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 466 g

Reihe: Amsterdam University Press

How are intergenerational relationships playing out in and through the digital rhythms of the household? Through extensive fieldwork in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne, this book ethnographically explores how households are being understood, articulated and defined by digital media practices. It investigates the rise of self-tracking, quantified self and informal practices of care at distance as part of contemporary household dynamics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hjorth, Larissa

Ohashi, Kana

Sinanan, Jolynna

Horst, Heather

Pink, Sarah

Kato, Fumitoshi

Zhou, Baohua

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Multimedia
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Chapter 1: Introduction

Meet Rika

Methods

Digital Kinship as Intimate Mundane Co-presence

Friendly Surveillance and Care at a Distance

Kinship Across Three Cities, Generations and Cultures

*Shanghai

*Tokyo

*Melbourne

Structure of the Book

SECTION 1: DIGITAL KINSHIP

Chapter 2: Platform Genealogies

Japan: LINE: A Post 3/11 Social Media

China: WeChat

Melbourne: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram

Locating the Platforms Across the Sites: Paralinguistics (Emojis/Stamps/Stickers)

Chapter 3: Friendly Social Surveillance

Understanding Contemporary Surveillance: A Familial Model

Care at a Distance: Examples of Families and Friendly Surveillance

*Melbourne

*Tokyo

*Shanghai

Cultural Understandings of Friendly Surveillance

SECTION II: PLAYFUL KINSHIP

Chapter 4: Digital Gifts and Rituals

The Cultural Dimensions of Gifts and Rituals

Digital Gifts and Domestic Care

Digital Gifts as Intimate Co-presence

Keeping While Giving

Conclusion: Gifts of Presence/Presents

Chapter 5: Playful Haptics in Families

Reading Gestures

Haptic Play and Screens

Haptic Rhythms

Haptic Play Poetry

Haptic Play Cadences (Co-?present Frequency)

Conclusion: Playful Encounters

SECTION III: VISUALIZING KINSHIP

Chapter 6: Personal Visual Collecting and Self-Cataloguing

Sharing and Non-sharing, Group Archive or Self-catalogue

*Tokyo

*Melbourne

*Shanghai

Conclusion: Sharing and Non-?sharing

Chapter 7: Visual Generational Genres

Co-present Eating: Sharing Food Moments

Co-present Mobility: Sharing Travel Experiences

Conclusion

SECTION IV: CO-FUTURING KINSHIP

Chapter 8: Re-imagining Digital Care and Health

Mundane Mobile Games as Quotidian Digital Health

Applified and Datafied: Quantified Self and Digital Health Feeling Data

Chapter 9: Quotidian Care at a Distance

Informal Care

Digital Care

WeChat and Informal Care

Careful Apps in Melbourne

Conclusion

Chapter 10: Conclusion

Continuity and Discontinuity

Implications for Digital Media Practices in Households

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ohashi, Kana
Kana Ohashi is a postdoc fellow at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan.

Hjorth, Larissa
Larissa Hjorth is a digital ethnographer, artist, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Design & Creative Practice Platform at RMIT University, Australia. She is a Visiting Professor at the Center for Co*Design at Osaka University, Japan.

Sinanan, Jolynna
Jolynna Sinanan is a senior research fellow at in the School of Media and Communication at University of Sydney, Australia.

Horst, Heather
Heather Horst is Professor and Director of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia.

Pink, Sarah
Sarah Pink is Professor and Director of the emerging technologies lab at Monash University, Australia. She is Visiting Professor at Halmstad University, Sweden and Loughborough University, UK, and Guest Professor at Free University, Berlin, Germany.

Kato, Fumitoshi
Fumitoshi Kato is a Professor at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan.

Zhou, Baohua
Baohua Zhou is a Professor and Assistant Dean at the School of Journalism, Fudan University. He is Director of the new media communication master program and associate director of Media and Public Opinion Research Center at Fudan University.