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
“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.
Abstrak. Penghargaan dan pengorbanan dalam ilmu komunikasi berkaitan dengan teori pertukaran sosial. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana kesamaan pengalaman beberapa individu pada ...fase tumbuh dewasa (emerging adulthood) dalam penghargaan dan pengorbanan di hubungan asmara mereka dan bagaimana mereka mengkomunikasikan penghargaan dan pengorbanan tersebut. Penelitian kualitatif fenomenologi ini menggunakan paradigma konstruktivis. Partisipan ditentukan menggunakan teknik sampel bertujuan. Partisipan yang dipilih adalah tiga pasangan yang berada dalam hubungan asmara berusia 18-25 tahun. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penghargaan yang diterima partisipan, yaitu bimbingan, pendampingan, penghiburan, perhatian, kejutan, pengertian, penyelesaian masalah, teman bicara, dan penerimaan dari orang tua. Sementara, pengorbanan yang dialami partisipan, yaitu kecemburuan, pengertian, pertengkaran, kecemasan, waktu, keegoisan pasangan, keterpurukan dan kemalasan, dan sakit hati. Partisipan mengkomunikasikan penghargaan yang diinginkan dengan berterus terang dan ada pula yang menggunakan tindak tutur (speech act) ilokusioner, sedangkan pengorbanan dikomunikasikan dengan 1) saling mengatakan secara terus terang, 2) saling memendam dan mendiamkan pasangan hingga pasangannya menyadari hal itu dan bertanya penyebabnya, atau 3) mencoba meredamnya sendiri terlebih dahulu baru mengatakannya bila diperlukan. Kata kunci: penghargaan, pengorbanan, hubungan asmara,Abstract. Rewards and costs in communication studies are related to social exchange theory. The purpose of this study is to find out the same experiences of several emerging adulthoods about rewards and costs in romantic relationship and how they communicate rewards and costs. This qualitative phenomenological research used constructivist paradigm. Participants were determined using purposive sampling. Researcher selected three couples who are in a romantic relationship with six individuals in total, aged 18-25 (emerging adulthood), not married, university student/university graduate, and have experienced rewards and costs in romantic relationship. The results showed that the rewards received by participants are guidance, companion, consolation, attention, surprise, understanding, problem solving, friend to talk, and acceptance from parents. Meanwhile, the costs experienced by participants are jealousy, understanding, quarrel, worry, time, partner’s selfishness, miserable and laziness, and hurt. Participants communicate the rewards by being straightforward and the others using an illocutionary speech act whereas they communicate costs by 1) being straightforward, 2) being in silence until the partner realizes it and asks the cause, or 3) try to calm it theirself first and then say it when necessary.Keywords: rewards, costs, social exchange, romantic relationship
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