Digital Media Practices in Households

Hjorth, Larissa; Ohashi, Kana; Sinanan, Jolynna; Horst, Heather A.; Pink, Sarah; Kato, Fumitoshi; Zhou, Baohua

doi:10.5117/9789462989504

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“…Five key features were identified regarding expression of emotionality in either online or offline family talks: emojis, terms of endearment, diminutives, declarations of love and situated-language use. The use of emojis in digital texts, as found in some of the recent studies (e.g., Bai et al, 2019;Hjorth et al, 2020;Riordan, 2017), has become part and parcel of affective repertoires in family communication. The digital data suggest that different types of emojis are frequently used in 'family talk' to accentuate the intensity of affective expressions.…”

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confidence: 92%

‘妈妈, I miss you ’: Emotional multilingual practices in transnational families

Curdt‐Christiansen

Iwaniec

2022

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims: This study explores how home language(s) are used in bilingual family members’ daily digital or non-digital interactions to demonstrate their emotions and affections for each other. The study investigates linguistic features and situated-language use of home language(s) in emotional negotiations between family members. In addition, it explores how multimodalities and languages are mixed to contribute to the interactional dynamics underlying ‘family talk’ and how children and adults position themselves emotionally in moment-to-moment interaction of family life. Methodology: This study involves six families from two transnational communities (Chinese and Polish) and it employs an ethnographic research design for data collection. Data and analysis: Data sources include recordings of mealtime conversations, daily WhatsApp/WeChat texts, and digital-mediated family talk recorded by the families themselves. Affective repertoire is used as an analytical framework. Findings and conclusions: The following five key features are identified in online or offline family talks regarding expression of emotionality: emojis, terms of endearment, diminutives, declaration of love and situated emotive language use. Originality: Unlike recent studies of emotions in bi-multilingual families, this study does not rely on surveys, memoirs, or interviews. Few studies have investigated how family members present their emotional expression in their daily communications, what role home/heritage language(s) actually play in communicating their emotional needs, and how these emotional expressions are manifested in their lived experiences and socialisation practices. Significance and implications: The findings contribute to FLP literature by looking into how emotions are involved in the practices of family life and the construction of familyness. Emotions, as a key factor in FLP, are directly related to parents’ perceptions of and investment in their heritage language. Although these perceptions are linked to the powerful societal languages that often represent educational possibilities, when it comes to emotional expressions, the primacy is given to the first language/heritage language.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%

‘妈妈, I miss you ’: Emotional multilingual practices in transnational families

Curdt‐Christiansen

Iwaniec

2022

International Journal of Bilingualism

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“…These studies have argued that technologies actively influence people's relations, reshape care practices and reorganize healthcare routines. Importantly, it takes into account how social relations and kinship mediate digital practices (Hjorth, 2022;Hjorth et al, 2020). To date, few studies have specifically applied the socio material approach in examining the outcomes of conducting remote and mediated data collection (see Watson and Lupton, 2022;Watson et al, 2021).…”

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Researching (im)mobile lives during a lockdown: Reconceptualizing remote interviews as field events

Cabalquinto

Ahlin

2023

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article foregrounds the benefits and challenges of deploying remote interviews to investigate the digital practices of older adults from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds during a series of stay-at-home orders in in 2020 and 2021 in Victoria, Australia. By critically examining the employment of technologically mediated data collection (via video and phone call), we reconceptualize remote fieldwork as a collection of ethnographically significant field events. We draw on the socio material approach to map the impact of human–digital assemblage on the processes, possibilities and limits of collecting data remotely. The study reveals the ways participants' differing digital access, competencies, and social relations engender and undermine methodological interventions. Indeed, it offers a nuanced perspective on deploying remote fieldwork especially among older migrants in an increasingly digital world.

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“We Make Them Our Kin”: Australian Older Adult’s Playful Kinship Practices Through Sharing Animal Images on Social Media

McGrane,

Hjorth,

Murray

2024

Social Media + Society

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Pets, companion animals, and “more-than-human” kin play important roles in people’s lives. Animals are familiar and familial—they are often integral family members and can help create communities beyond the family unit. People rely on their pets for emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. More recently, research into the role of animals in the lives of older adults has come into focus, especially through the visibilities and visualities of social media. The significance of animals in the lives of older adults in conjunction with the storification and sharing potential of social media leads us to ask: What do the practices of pet image sharing on social media reflect about ideas of aging and human and more-than-human kinship? In this article, we draw on ethnographic and interview data conducted with Australian older adults (65 years and above) about how and why they share images of their pets on social media. How do these visualities represent the feelings, care practices, and experiences of older adults and the value of the more-than-humans in their lives? This article seeks to contribute to social media literature by engaging with the under-explored lives of older adults and how their sharing practices reflect shifting relationalities between older adults and their pets.

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Digital Media Practices in Households

Cited by 3 publications

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‘妈妈, I miss you ’: Emotional multilingual practices in transnational families

‘妈妈, I miss you ’: Emotional multilingual practices in transnational families

Researching (im)mobile lives during a lockdown: Reconceptualizing remote interviews as field events

“We Make Them Our Kin”: Australian Older Adult’s Playful Kinship Practices Through Sharing Animal Images on Social Media

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