Gan2021
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Gan2021 |
| Author(s) | Yumei Gan |
| Title | Capturing love at a distance: Multisensoriality in intimate video calls between migrant parents and their left-behind children |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Video calls, Intimacy, Intimate relationships, Video analysis, Multisensoriality |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality |
| Volume | 4 |
| Number | 3 |
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| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.7146/si.v4i3.128148 |
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Abstract
Studies have shown that multisensorial interactions are an important medium for achieving love and intimacy. Nevertheless, the question remains: How do people constitute their “love at a distance” when they can only interact with each other over a video call, in which certain sensorial resources (e.g., touch, smell, and taste) are not available? Drawing from two years of video-based fieldwork involving recordings of habitual calls among the members of migrant families, I consider the application of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA)-informed video analysis to investigating intimate relationships constructed through remote means. I present an innovative method of video recording that allows me to analyze the interactional resources toward which participants orient themselves in their calls. I illustrate this approach with data analysis to demonstrate the relevance of video to examining intimacy at a distance. This article proposes that a distinct contribution of video-based research to the discipline lies in its ability to capture how people use their embodied and sensorial interactions to form intimacy across distances.
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