LocalitàRoom BZ C4.01(ex C4.03), Universitätsplatz 1 - Piazza Università, 1, 39100 Bozen-Bolzano

Contatto Roberta Raffaetà

10 lug 2019 14:30-16:00

Living mobile: exploring the role of digital media for transnational/mobile families

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LocalitàRoom BZ C4.01(ex C4.03), Universitätsplatz 1 - Piazza Università, 1, 39100 Bozen-Bolzano

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Contatto Roberta Raffaetà

This talk explores the possibilities for a research agenda investigating the potential role of digital media (smartphones, laptops and other mobile devices) for families whose members are separated by time and distance due to commuting and other forms of mobile labour. The speakers review key literature in migration that provides evidence of the significant role of digital media for transnational families to ‘feel connected’ and to remain ‘in touch’. They then examine literature on FIFO (fly-in, fly-out), DIDO (drive-in, drive-out) and BIBO (bus-in, bus-out) workers in the Australian resource extraction industry that tends to emphasise the problematic nature of work that involves long-distance commuting for workers and their families. They argue that by bringing together these bodies of scholarship and by examining the intersections between transnational families and FIFO families, we are better placed to understand the strategies, opportunities and challenges associated with using digital media to sustain family life, care and intimacy at a distance for other kinds of mobile families, whose experience of familyhood is characterised by periods of absence and separation.