This book offers new insights into transnational family life in today's digital age, exploring the
media resources and language practices parents and children employ toward maintaining …

The transnational circulation of intimate care is increasingly mediated by digital
communications. Research conceptualizing long-distance emotional intimacy in terms of …

In the era of big data, the rapid development of information technology has made the sharing
of data and information more free, bringing convenience to the public, but at the same time …

Through the smartphone, the production and circulation of digital visual media have become
as costless and accessible as audio and text-based communication. It would be challenging …

With more than 2 billion users, WhatsApp is one of the most important mobile technologies
in the world. Accordingly, scholarly interest in WhatsApp has grown in recent years …

Older adults in Japan, one of the most ageing countries in the world, are starting to adopt the
smartphone. What does this mean for friendship, gendered labour, multigenerational living …

Experiences of migration and the creation and maintenance of transnational networks have
arguably become more diverse with the advent of digital technologies. In this chapter, we …

This paper critically examines how elderly people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
(CALD) backgrounds in Victoria, Australia use visual-based platforms in navigating the …

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Tajikistan–the region where migration to Russia
has become almost the only stable source of livelihood–this article contributes to a growing …

Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in
Tajikistan, one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world. Moving beyond …