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Technology & Engineering Social Aspects

Click and Kin

Transnational Identity and Quick Media

edited by May Friedman & Silvia Schultermandl

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
May 2016
Category
Social Aspects, Telecommunications, Marriage & Family, General, Cultural
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487500009
    Publish Date
    Apr 2016
    List Price
    $70.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487519964
    Publish Date
    Apr 2016
    List Price
    $30.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487509989
    Publish Date
    May 2016
    List Price
    $28.95

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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.

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Silvia Schultermandl is an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Graz in Austria.

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