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TY - GEN
T1 - Everyday dwelling with WhatsApp
AU - O'Hara, K.
AU - Massimi, M.
AU - Harper, R.
AU - Rubens, S.
AU - Morris, J.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In this paper, we present a study of WhatsApp, an instant messaging smartphone application. Through our interviews with participants, we develop anthopologist Tim Ingold's notion of dwelling, and discuss how use of WhatsApp is constitutive of a felt-life of being together with those close by. We focus on the relationship "doings" in WhatsApp and how this togetherness and intimacy are enacted through small, continuous traces of narrative, of tellings and tidbits, noticings and thoughts, shared images and lingering pauses; this is constitutive of dwelling. Further, we discuss how an intimate knowing of others in these relationships, through past encounters and knowledge of coming together in the future, pertain to the particular forms of relationship engagements manifest through the possibilities presented in WhatsApp. We suggest that this form of sociality is likely to be manifest in other smartphone IM-like applications.
AB - In this paper, we present a study of WhatsApp, an instant messaging smartphone application. Through our interviews with participants, we develop anthopologist Tim Ingold's notion of dwelling, and discuss how use of WhatsApp is constitutive of a felt-life of being together with those close by. We focus on the relationship "doings" in WhatsApp and how this togetherness and intimacy are enacted through small, continuous traces of narrative, of tellings and tidbits, noticings and thoughts, shared images and lingering pauses; this is constitutive of dwelling. Further, we discuss how an intimate knowing of others in these relationships, through past encounters and knowledge of coming together in the future, pertain to the particular forms of relationship engagements manifest through the possibilities presented in WhatsApp. We suggest that this form of sociality is likely to be manifest in other smartphone IM-like applications.
KW - Communication
KW - Dwelling
KW - Instant Messaging
KW - Mobile phones
KW - SMS
KW - Texting
KW - WhatsApp
KW - Computer supported cooperative work
KW - Interactive computer systems
KW - Message passing
KW - World Wide Web
KW - Instant messaging
KW - Housing
U2 - 10.1145/2531602.2531679
DO - 10.1145/2531602.2531679
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450325400
SP - 1131
EP - 1143
BT - CSCW '14 Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
PB - ACM
CY - New York
ER -