Earvin Charles B Cabalquinto

(Im)Mobile Homes

Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media

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Produktbeschreibung

Enriched by moving stories of transnational families, (Im)mobile Homes explores the importance of smartphones and social media for the transnational Filipino family in Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780197524848
• ISBN-10: 0197524842
• Artikelnr.: 63240539

Autorenporträt

Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto is Lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. He is also a member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University. His research agenda locates the potentialities and paradoxes nestled in the conduct of personal, familial, and social life at a distance via an ecology of mobile technologies and online platforms.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* Chapter 1. Mediated (Im)mobilities
* Chapter 2. Zones of Reterritorialized Domesticity: 'It's Like Leaving
Messages on the Fridge'
* Chapter 3. Homeland (Dis)connections: 'It's Like I'm in the
Philippines'
* Chapter 4. Restaging Interrupted Rituals: 'It's As If They're Beside
Me'
* Chapter 5. Mobile (Un)caring at a Distance: 'You Really Love Us My
Son'
* Chapter 6. Bittersweet Festivity: 'We're Not Only Here but We're Also
There in Spirit'
* Chapter 7. Digital Lifeline in Turbulent Times: 'As Long as They're
Okay, I'm Okay'
* 8. An (Im)mobile Home and Beyond
* Methodological Appendix