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Maria’s Bag
Maria’s Bag

Author(s): Patricia Prieto-Blanco
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Communication studies, Sociology
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: Irish-Spanish families; photographic exchanges; phatic community;

Summary/Abstract: Shared photographs transmit a sense of place (Agnew, 2011) that allows for (dis)affection to be transmitted. Social co_presence and intimacy are generated when photographs are shared within a particular group, which could be called the phatic community (Prieto-Blanco, 2010). It is at this stage, at this level of kinship that the how and what of sharing is determined. The empirical work carried out with Maria and ten more Irish-Spanish families living in Ireland corroborates this likeness and hints at a communicative function that is activated by photographic exchanges – namely, the phatic.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 81-85
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English