Technology & Engineering Social Aspects
Click and Kin
Transnational Identity and Quick Media
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2016
- Category
- Social Aspects, Telecommunications, Marriage & Family, General, Cultural
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487500009
- Publish Date
- Apr 2016
- List Price
- $70.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487519964
- Publish Date
- Apr 2016
- List Price
- $38.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487509989
- Publish Date
- May 2016
- List Price
- $28.95
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Description
Click and Kin is an interdisciplinary examination of how our increasingly mobile and networked age is changing the experience of kinship and connection. Focusing on how identity formation is affected by quick media such as instant messaging, video chat, and social networks, the contributors to this collection use ethnographic and textual analyses, as well as autobiographical approaches, to demonstrate the ways in which the ability to communicate across national boundaries is transforming how we grow together and apart as families, communities, and nations.
The essays in Click and Kin span the globe, examining transnational connections that touch in the United States, Canada, Mexico, India, Pakistan, and elsewhere. Together, they offer a unique reflection on the intersection of new media, identity politics, and kinship in the twenty-first century.
About the authors
May Friedman’s research looks at unstable identities, including bodies that do not conform to traditional racial and national or aesthetic lines. Most recently much of May’s research has focused on intersectional approaches to fat studies considering the multiple and fluid experiences of both fat oppression and fat activism. May works at Ryerson University as a faculty member in the School of Social Work and in the Ryerson/York graduate program in Communication and Culture.
Silvia Schultermandl is an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Graz in Austria.
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