Using Skype to mother: bodies, emotions, visuality, and screens

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Using Skype to mother: bodies, emotions, visuality, and screens

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University of Waikato

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This research examines how a group of mothers in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand are developing and maintaining emotional and familial links with their children of a variety of ages via video calls using Skype. More specifically it seeks to deepen understanding of how seeing one’s child or children as part of the communication affects mothers’ feelings towards their children. The research is informed by Sara Ahmed’s work on ‘queer phenomenology’ and the ‘cultural politics of emotions’, which e...

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Research Paper

Research format

Journal article

Date created

2013

Creator

Longhurst, Robyn

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8046

Related subjects

mothering / bodies / space / screens / real-time image / Skype

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