Skype

by Longhurst, Robyn

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 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 -- Space -- 3. 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.