Richard Harper

List of John Benjamins publications in which Richard Harper is involved.

Titles

Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life

Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe

This collection is one of the first in-depth studies of video calling in family and domestic life. It explores the reasons that people themselves provide to explain their video calling, investigates how these reasons make that calling accountable and how, in turn, these reasons come to be things… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 103] 2019. v, 177 pp. | open access

Skype and domestic settings: Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality

Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe

Special issue of Pragmatics 27:3 (2017) v, 174 pp. | open access

Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe 2019 Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life, Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter

Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Jill Palzkill Woelfer 2019 The Skype paradox: Homelessness and selective intimacy in the use of communications technology Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life, Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe (eds.), pp. 147–174 | Chapter

Harper, Richard, Sean Rintel, Rod Watson and Kenton O’Hara 2019 The ‘interrogative gaze’: Making video calling and messaging ‘accountable’ Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life, Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe (eds.), pp. 19–49 | Chapter

Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe 2017 Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality: A special issue of Pragmatics Skype and domestic settings: Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality, Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe (eds.), pp. 301–318 | Introduction

Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Jill Palzkill Woelfer 2017 The Skype paradox: Homelessness and selective intimacy in the use of communications technology Skype and domestic settings: Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality, Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe (eds.), pp. 447–474 | Article

Digital technologies are likely to be appropriated by the homeless just as they are by other segments of society. However, these appropriations will reflect the particularities of their circumstances. What are these appropriations? Are they beneficial or effective? Can Skype, as a case in point,… read more

Harper, Richard, Sean Rintel, Rod Watson and Kenton O’Hara 2017 The ‘interrogative gaze’: Making video calling and messaging ‘accountable’ Skype and domestic settings: Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality, Harper, Richard, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe (eds.), pp. 319–350 | Article

This paper identifies salient properties of how talk about video communication is organised interactionally, and how this interaction invokes an implied order of behaviour that is treated as ‘typical’ and ‘accountably representative’ of video communication. This invoked order will be called an… read more

Page, Ruth, Richard Harper and Maximiliane Frobenius 2013 From small stories to networked narrative: The evolution of personal narratives in Facebook status updates Narrative Inquiry 23:1, pp. 192–213 | Article

This article addresses the emergence of networked narration found in Facebook updates. Drawing on anthropological approaches to co-tellership (Ochs & Capps, 2001), we trace how storyworlds are co-constructed by multiple narrators via the communicative affordances which have developed in the… read more

Harper, Richard 2000 Getting to grips with information: Using sociological case materials to aid the design of document technologies Information Design Journal 9:2/3, pp. 195–206 | Article

Interaction modalities with document technologies have, until recently, been quite limited. Current advances have led to the emergance of a host of new techniques for navigation, marking and annotation, and these are allowing users of documents to get to grips with documents more effectively than… read more