Digital Media Practices in Households

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. Kana Ohashi is a postdoc fellow at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan. Jolynna Sinanan is a senior research fellow at in the School of Media and Communication at University of Sydney, Australia. Heather Horst is Professor and Director of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia. Sarah Pink is Professor and Director of the emerging technologies lab at Monash University, Australia. She is Visiting Professor at Halmstad University, Sweden and Loughborough University, UK, and Guest Professor at Free University, Berlin, Germany. Fumitoshi Kato is a Professor at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan. Baohua Zhou is a Professor and Assistant Dean at the School of Journalism, Fudan University. He is Director of the new media communication master program and associate director of Media and Public Opinion Research Center at Fudan University.

• Acknowledgements List of Figures Chapter 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 1: DIGITAL KINSHIP Chapter 2: Platform Genealogies Japan: LINE: A Post 3/11 Social Media China: WeChat Melbourne: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Locating the Platforms Across the Sites: Paralinguistics (Emojis/Stamps/Stickers) Chapter 3: Friendly Social Surveillance Understanding Contemporary Surveillance: A Familial Model Care at a Distance: Examples of Families and Friendly Surveillance *Melbourne *Tokyo *Shanghai Cultural Understandings of Friendly Surveillance SECTION II: PLAYFUL KINSHIP Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 6: Personal Visual Collecting and Self-Cataloguing Sharing and Non-sharing, Group Archive or Self-catalogue *Tokyo *Melbourne *Shanghai Conclusion: Sharing and Non-?sharing Chapter 7: Visual Generational Genres Co-present Eating: Sharing Food Moments Co-present Mobility: Sharing Travel Experiences Conclusion SECTION IV: CO-FUTURING KINSHIP Chapter 8: Re-imagining Digital Care and Health Mundane Mobile Games as Quotidian Digital Health Applified and Datafied: Quantified Self and Digital Health Feeling Data Chapter 9: Quotidian Care at a Distance Informal Care Digital Care WeChat and Informal Care Careful Apps in Melbourne Conclusion Chapter 10: Conclusion Continuity and Discontinuity Implications for Digital Media Practices in Households Index