Digital Media Practices in Households - Kinship Through Data

Informationen zum Autor Larissa Hjorth is a digital ethnographer, artist, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Design & Creative Practice Platform at RMIT University, Australia. She is a Visiting Professor at the Center for Co*Design at Osaka University, Japan. Klappentext How are intergenerational relationships playing out in and through the digital rhythms of the household? Through extensive fieldwork in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne, this book ethnographically explores how households are being understood, articulated and defined by digital media practices. It investigates the rise of self-tracking, quantified self and informal practices of care at distance as part of contemporary household dynamics.

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• Authors: Larissa Hjorth, Larissa Ohashi Hjorth, Heather Horst, Fumitoshi Kato, Kana Ohashi, Sarah Pink, Jolynna Sinanan, Baohua Zhou
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2020
• EAN: 9789462989504
• ISBN: 978-94-62-98950-4
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Mediamatters
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society