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Emotion work via digital visual communication: A comparative study between China and Japan by Xinyuan Wang; Laura Haapio-Kirk is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Emotion work via digital visual communication: A comparative study between China and Japan about?
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 to be a contemporary ethnographer without engaging with digital practices which in Japan and China at least, tend towards being highly visual. Digital visual communication is recognised in literature as an effective and accessible form of communication, with an increasing number of studies in the field of digital anthropology, media studies and Internet studies exploring the consequences of digital images on social media. There is a pressing need to understand local forms of visual communication in the digital age, where the visual has become an essential part of daily communication. This article deals particularly with the rise of visual digital communication among older adults in China and Japan. Drawing on 16-month ethnographies conducted simultaneously between 2018 and 2019 in China and Japan, this article contributes to the discussion of visual communication in light of this semiotic shift happening online, which is then contextualised within people's offline lives. The ethnographies in both China a
Who reads Emotion work via digital visual communication: A comparative study between China and Japan?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Xinyuan Wang; Laura Haapio-Kirk
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences