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Digital Media Practices in Households: Kinship Through Data

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 205 pp.

Series: MediaMatters

ISBN 978-94-6298-950-4 (print); 978-90-4854-206-2 (ebook)

CC BY-NC-ND

"In this book, we have investigated the evolving intergenerational media practices over three years to reflect on the quotidian (and often invisible) forms of care at a distance enacted as part of contemporary Digital Kinship. As we have explored, within different cultural contexts we are seeing diverging forms of intergenerational perceptions and practices around media and care. Over the three years, we witnessed the growth of self-tracking health apps which are being taken up in diverse intergenerational ways. As we note, understanding intergenerational care at a distance is about complicating care beyond medical notions of health and social services." (Conclusion, page 187)