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Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life
Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe
[Benjamins Current Topics 103] 2019
► pp. 87–117

Talking about things

Image-based topical talk and intimacy in video-mediated family communication

| Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, and Orange Labs Paris
| Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Orange Labs, Paris
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background: Topical talk
  • 3.Showings as visual turn taking in storytelling between relatives
    • 3.1Showing an environment
    • 3.2Showing one’s clothing
    • 3.3Summary
  • 4.Noticings as intimacy achieving practices
    • 4.1Noticings about physical appearance
    • 4.2Focusing conversation on children’s activities through noticings
    • 4.3Summary
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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Published online: 13 August 2019
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