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Introduction published In: Skype and domestic settings: Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality
Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe
[Pragmatics 27:3] 2017
► pp. 301–318

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Introduction

Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality

A special issue of Pragmatics

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Published online: 16 October 2017
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Article outline
  • 1.Background
  • 2.Perspectives on mediated communications
  • 3.The need for a different approach
  • 4.Evidence from within
  • 5.The purpose of this special issue
  • References
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