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Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic lifeEdited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe
[Benjamins Current Topics 103] 2019
► pp. 19–49
Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe
[Benjamins Current Topics 103] 2019
► pp. 19–49
The ‘interrogative gaze’
Making video calling and messaging ‘accountable’
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Approach to evidence
- 3.Evidence in everyday reasoning about Skype
- 4.Why Skype?
- 4.1Particular reasons
- 4.2Reasons to interrogate
- 4.3Reasons as a particular kind of feature of social interaction
- 4.4Reasons not to Skype
- 4.5Reasons as a vocabulary for accountability
- 4.6Reasons beyond sight
- 4.7Reasons as located acts
- 5.Conclusions
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Notes -
References
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