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This paper investigates an ethnographic understanding of family relationships across spaces and the management of discursive practices using a webcam. Through turn-by-turn analyses of video-recorded webcam-mediated conversations between Japanese families who live in the United States and their extended family members in Japan, I analyze how the reciprocal expectations of showing and watching each other’s spaces are woven into unfolding processes in webcam-mediated interactions. I specifically focus on the organizational features of a ‘show-and-narrate’ activity in which and through which aspects of everyday lives are introduced. I examine how show-and-narrate activities are discursively marked, how children’s interactional behaviors are structured, and how participants are socialized into this technologically mediated family space.
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Sunakawa, C. (2012). Japanese Family via Webcam: An Ethnographic Study of Cross-Spatial Interactions. In: Okumura, M., Bekki, D., Satoh, K. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7258. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32090-3_24
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