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(Im)mobile Homes - Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media (Hardcover)
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(Im)mobile Homes - Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Mobile Communication
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The home has been on the forefront of rapid economic, political,
social, and technological transformations for many individuals and
families across the world. As a country reliant on the exportation
of human labor to sustain its national economy, the Philippines
exemplifies a valuable case study of the impacts of a globalized
and networked society on the everyday dynamics of a transnational
family arrangement. Despite ranking among the heaviest Internet
users in the world, Filipino citizens are often left with no choice
but to navigate digital and transnational environments orchestrated
by the uneven distribution of both national and international
resources and opportunities. (Im)mobile Homes investigates the role
of smartphones, social media channels, and various mobile
applications in forging and sustaining intimate ties among
dispersed Filipino family members. Examining the digital lifeworlds
of transnational Filipino family in Australia, this volume draws on
rich ethnographic study to explore the benefits of digital
communication as well as the tensions enabled by the influences of
socio-cultural structures, socio-economic conditions, technological
affordances, and institutional policies and processes on mobile
practices. It portrays the physically distributed yet virtually
connected nature of the transnational Filipino family through
diverse contexts, such as observing family rituals, performing
intimate care, and managing crises, and foregrounds their unique
strategies in addressing the interruptions of connecting at a
distance. Ultimately, this volume underscores how mobile practices
of the transnational Filipino family negotiate the pre-existing and
broader structural systems that (re)produce marginalization in a
digital and global era. Enriched by moving stories of transnational
families, (Im)mobile Homes offers a critical lens towards
interrogating the possibilities and politics of a home from afar in
the digital era.
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