The skype paradox : Homelessness and selective intimacy in the use of communications technology
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 242762924
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1075/prag.27.3.06har
- Title of journal
- Pragmatics
- Article number
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- First page
- 447
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 1018-2101
- Open access status
- Not compliant
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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G - Pervasive Systems
- Citation count
- 1
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper shows why video-connections do not 'solve' problems of human communication and instead can make the moral consequences of such communication worse. Related to a $28,000 funding from Skype, it enabled an academic conference on video mediated communication. The consequences of using video to our interactions has largely been eschewed in the HCI literature, the focus being more on how to replicate the ‘subjective’ point of view through solving problems of parallax and similar. This is of profound interest to HCI and social scientists examining digital exclusion. It led to publication of a book, Skyping the Family (2019: Benjamins).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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