Cover
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Meet Rika
Methods
Digital Kinship as Intimate Mundane Co-presence
Friendly Surveillance and Care at a Distance
Kinship Across Three Cities, Generations and Cultures
Shanghai
Tokyo
Melbourne
Structure of the Book
Section I . Digital Kinship
2. Platform Genealogies
Japan: LINE: A Post 3/11 Social Media
China: WeChat
Melbourne: Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram
Locating the Platforms Across the Sites: Emojis/Stamps/Stickers
3. Friendly Social Surveillance
Understanding Contemporary Surveillance: A Familial Model
Melbourne
Tokyo
Shanghai
Cultural Understandings of Friendly Surveillance
Section II. Playful Kinship
4. Digital Gifts and Rituals
The Cultural Dimensions of Gifts and Rituals
Digital Gifts and Domestic Care
Digital Gifts as Intimate Co-presence
Keeping While Giving
Conclusion: Gifts of Presence/Presents
5. Playful Haptics in Families
Reading Gestures
Haptic Play and Screens
Haptic Rhythms
Haptic Play Poetry
Haptic Play Cadences (Co-present Frequency)
Conclusion: Playful Encounters
Section III. Visualizing Kinship
6. Personal Visual Collecting and
Self-Cataloguing
The Politics of Collecting: Sharing and Non-sharing, Group Archive or Self-catalogue
Tokyo
Melbourne
Shanghai
Conclusion: Sharing and Non-sharing
7. Visual Generational Genres
Co-present Eating: Sharing Food Moments
Co-present Mobility: Sharing Travel Experiences
Conclusion
Section IV. Co-futuring Kinship
8. Re-imagining Digital Care and Health
Mundane Mobile Games as Quotidian Digital Health
Applified and Datafied: Quantified Self and Digital Health
Feeling data
Conclusion
9. Quotidian Care at a Distance
Informal Care
Digital Care
WeChat and Informal Care
Careful Apps in Melbourne
Conclusion
10. Conclusion
Continuity and Discontinuity
Implications for Digital Media Practices in Households
Author Biographies
Index