Skype: Bodies, Screens, Space

Robyn Longhurst is Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic and Professor of Geography at University of Waikato. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography and Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Gender and Geography. Robyn has published on issues relating to digital media, pregnancy, mothering, sexuality, ‘visceral geographies’, masculinities, and body size and shape.

• List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements 1 Why Skype, why now? Feeling my way Milestones for Skype Where to from here? 2 Queer phenomenology: from writing tables to digital screens Getting orientated Spinning outwards Bodies Screens Space3 Interviewing: face-to-face and on Skype The participants Feeling the interviews Shifting senses Internet sources or ‘vulgar geographies’4 Selves, others, objects and space The self in the box The difference gender makes ‘Theatres of composition’ 5 Families, friends and loved ones Across the generations Special occasions ‘Sinking’ into the spaces of Skype 6 Skype for work: ‘A bit weird’ Job interviews Meetings and collegial communications ‘Disorientations’ 7 Skype sex: ‘Queer effects’? Katie’s story Real sex and contrived sex Generational difference? 8 Reorientating bodies and spaces Lines of sight/site Back to writing tables and digital screens Bibliography Index

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