Everyday dwelling with WhatsApp
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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.
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Facebook and WhatsApp could be used as a key component to understand how young people socialize through these applications.
“Facebook and WhatsApp (as WhatsApp could be considered a social media) could be used as a key component to understand how young people socialize through these applications [57].”
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- Authors
- O'Hara, K. P., Massimi, M., Harper, R., Rubens, S., & Morris, J.
- Affiliations
- Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) (GB)
- new experience limited, London, United Kingdom
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2014-02-15
- Pages
- 1131-1143
- OpenAlex
- W2159144235
- Cited by
- 304
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 59 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 32 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 3 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 18.25
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (publishedVersion)
- Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Digital Communication and Language
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Media and Digital Communication
- Keywords
- WhatsApp, instant messaging, dwelling, Tim Ingold, intimacy, togetherness, sociality, mobile application, narrative, relationships, everyday life
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