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
- $30.95
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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 teaches at Ryerson University in the School of Social Work and the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. She is absolutely passionate about popular culture and has published extensively on the topics of motherhood, fat and digital technologies.
Silvia Schultermandl is an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Graz in Austria.
