How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by ...the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and texting. A migrant mother can now call and text her left-behind children several times a day, peruse social networking sites and leave the webcam for 12 hours achieving a sense of co-presence.
Drawing on a long-term ethnographic study of prolonged separation between migrant mothers and their children who remain in the Philippines, this book develops groundbreaking theory for understanding both new media and the nature of mediated relationships. It brings together the perspectives of both the mothers and children and shows how the very nature of family relationships is changing. New media, understood as an emerging environment of polymedia, have become integral to the way family relationships are enacted and experienced. The theory of polymedia extends beyond the poignant case study and is developed as a major contribution for understanding the interconnections between digital media and interpersonal relationships.
"A compelling read about the ‘connected transnational family’ … The most compelling aspect of this book, this reader would argue, is its simultaneous engagement with a broad range of entangled issues. It convincingly puts mothers/children, migration/communication, mediation/relationship, past/present/future as well as theory/research practice into close encounter throughout." - Nicole Shephard, LSE Review of Books
"Mirca Madianou and Daniel Miller seem to have formed a dream team when they embarked on their mutual research project on transnational families and the role of ICTs ... In my view, the book succeeds in what many authors fruitlessly pursue: deriving convincing theory from an abundance of vast qualitative data. It is a highly engaging book that is rich in detail without drowning the reader in it. Its empirical and theoretical innovations make it a highly recommended book for any scholar working on media and migration, long-distance communication and the increasingly complex media environments that enfold us." - Kevin Smets, Communications
"An exemplary and groundbreaking study, with contributions to theory and our understanding of polymedia in everyday life, this stands out as an extraordinary read on the technology of relationships." - Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA
"This fascinating, richly detailed book investigates the role that fluency across multiple digital platforms plays in enabling mothering and caring to be sustained at a distance. A genuine breakthrough." - Nick Couldry , Goldmiths, University of London, UK
"With deft weaving of interview material and theorization...Mirca Madianou and Daniel Miller have produced an important and useful theoretical intervention that advances our understanding of the social life of transnational communities." - Radha S. Hegde, Media, Culture, & Society
Mirca Madianou is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK. She is the author of Mediating the Nation and several articles on the social consequences of the media.
Daniel Miller is Professor of Material Culture at the Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK. His most recent books include Tales from Facebook and Digital Anthropology (edited with Heather Horst).
1. Introduction 2. Philippines at the Forefront of Globalisation 3. The Hidden Motivations of Migration 4. Crafting Love: Letters and Cassettes 5. The Cultural Contradictions of Transnational Motherhood: The Mothers’ Perspective 6. The Children’s Perspective 7. Technologies of Relationships 8. Polymedia 9. A Theory of Mediated Relationships 10. Appendix: A Note on Method
Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity and culture. It investigates how cultures remember, arguing that human ...memory exists and is communicated in two ways, namely inter-human interaction and in external systems of notation, such as writing, which can span generations. Dr Assmann defines two theoretical concepts of cultural memory, differentiating between the long-term memory of societies, which can span up to 3,000 years, and communicative memory, which is typically restricted to 80 to 100 years. He applies this theoretical framework to case studies of four specific cultures, illustrating the function contexts and specific achievements, including the state, international law, religion and science. Ultimately, his research demonstrates that memory is not simply a means of retaining information, but rather a force that can shape cultural identity and allow cultures to respond creatively to both daily challenges and catastrophic changes.
“Larvatus prodeo,” announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: “I come forward, masked.” Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many ...early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and commoners alike-chose to practice the shadowy art of dissimulation. For men and women who could not risk revealing their inner lives to those around them, this art of incommunicativity was crucial, both personally and politically. Many writers and intellectuals sought to explain, expose, justify, or condemn the emergence of this new culture of secrecy, and from Naples to the Netherlands controversy swirled for two centuries around the powers and limits of dissimulation, whether in affairs of state or affairs of the heart. This beautifully written work crisscrosses Europe, with a special focus on Italy, to explore attitudes toward the art of dissimulation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Discussing many canonical and lesser-known works, Jon R. Snyder examines the treatment of dissimulation in early modern treatises and writings on the court, civility, moral philosophy, political theory, and in the visual arts.
Taller de role-playing para la Generación Z: un camino hacia la simulación creativa en Expresión Corporal(Role-playing workshop for Generation Z: a pathway through the creative simulation in Body ...Expression)
La generación Z o “Gen Z” nació inmersa en la cultura digital y, por este contexto, tiende a disminuir su interés y capacidad en el desarrollo de habilidades interpersonales. A menudo, la imagen que una persona proyecta de sí misma en un entorno virtual se desvirtúa en el mundo físico y social porque, al no ser posible la interacción cara a cara, se pierde la capacidad de percibir las emociones y la destreza de entender la Comunicación No Verbal, (en adelante CNV), que se exprese. El objetivo de este artículo es proponer un taller monográfico sobre el role-playing, orientado a alumnado que cursa la asignatura de Expresión Corporal, que pretende ser una herramienta metodológica a través de la cual el estudiante llegue a gestionar sus habilidades de comunicación interpersonal y la inteligencia emocional en entornos face to face.
Abstract. Generation Z or "Gen Z" was born immersed in the digital culture and in this context, it is prone to diminish its interest and capacity for the development of interpersonal skills. Often, the image that a person projects in a virtual environment is distorted in the physical and social world because, in the absence of face-to-face interaction, the ability to perceive emotions and the skill to understand Non-Verbal Communication (hereinafter NVC) that is expressed is lost. The aim of this article is to present a monographic workshop on role-playing, oriented to students studying the subject of Body Expression, which is intended to be a methodological tool through which students can manage their interpersonal communication skills and emotional intelligence in face-to-face environments.
Along with the times, the da'i began to use social media as a medium of da'wah calling for good and forbidding evil. One of the most popular da'wah content creators today is Habib Jafar. Researchers ...are interested in analyzing the preaching style of Habib Jafar through YouTube in conveying the context of peaceful Islam because he is a da'i who is suitable to be juxtaposed with religious figures other than Islam, and audiences can universally accept his da'wah. Habib Jafar's da'wah content can attract the attention of millennials in the digital era to keep them enthusiastic about following studies on Islam. This study uses a qualitative research approach with library research methods. The data sources used are primary data sources and secondary data sources. The subject of this research is Habib Jafar, and the object of this research is Habib Jafar's da'wah style. The result of this research is to know the process of implementing Habib Jafar's da'wah to millennials who are armed with communication styles, depth of intellectual competence, open thinking, and positive views on the audience as well as the success of Habib Jafar in carrying out interfaith da'wah which is the result of a combination of communication skills and understanding the characteristics of communication opponents and having flexibility in delivering da'wah so that the messages conveyed can be adequately described.
