Despite the popularity of Skype with video many of us are still figuring out how to 'do' it. This book addresses how people emotionally and affectually are connecting with others audio-synchronously on the screen via Skype in a variety of different spatial contexts. Topics include Skype with video being used by grandparents to connect with grandchildren, friends and family using it for special occasions, and partners using it for romance and sex. Theories addressing bodies, gender, queerness, phenomenology and orientation inform the research. It is of relevance to those in Geography,…mehr
Despite the popularity of Skype with video many of us are still figuring out how to 'do' it. This book addresses how people emotionally and affectually are connecting with others audio-synchronously on the screen via Skype in a variety of different spatial contexts. Topics include Skype with video being used by grandparents to connect with grandchildren, friends and family using it for special occasions, and partners using it for romance and sex. Theories addressing bodies, gender, queerness, phenomenology and orientation inform the research. It is of relevance to those in Geography, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Science and Technology Studies and Media Studies.
Robyn Longhurst is Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic and Professor of Geography at University of Waikato. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography and Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Gender and Geography. Robyn has published on issues relating to digital media, pregnancy, mothering, sexuality, 'visceral geographies', masculinities, and body size and shape.
Inhaltsangabe
List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements 1 Why Skype, why now? Feeling my way Milestones for Skype Where to from here? 2 Queer phenomenology: from writing tables to digital screens Getting orientated Spinning outwards Bodies Screens Space 3 Interviewing: face-to-face and on Skype The participants Feeling the interviews Shifting senses Internet sources or 'vulgar geographies' 4 Selves, others, objects and space The self in the box The difference gender makes 'Theatres of composition' 5 Families, friends and loved ones Across the generations Special occasions 'Sinking' into the spaces of Skype 6 Skype for work: 'A bit weird' Job interviews Meetings and collegial communications 'Disorientations' 7 Skype sex: 'Queer effects'? Katie's story Real sex and contrived sex Generational difference? 8 Reorientating bodies and spaces Lines of sight/site Back to writing tables and digital screens Bibliography Index
List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements 1 Why Skype, why now? Feeling my way Milestones for Skype Where to from here? 2 Queer phenomenology: from writing tables to digital screens Getting orientated Spinning outwards Bodies Screens Space 3 Interviewing: face-to-face and on Skype The participants Feeling the interviews Shifting senses Internet sources or 'vulgar geographies' 4 Selves, others, objects and space The self in the box The difference gender makes 'Theatres of composition' 5 Families, friends and loved ones Across the generations Special occasions 'Sinking' into the spaces of Skype 6 Skype for work: 'A bit weird' Job interviews Meetings and collegial communications 'Disorientations' 7 Skype sex: 'Queer effects'? Katie's story Real sex and contrived sex Generational difference? 8 Reorientating bodies and spaces Lines of sight/site Back to writing tables and digital screens Bibliography Index
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