Author
Putnam; EL
Year
2024
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
English
Pages
11
ISBN
978-1-45297-161-2
Last Update
21-Aug-2025
Keywords
Technology ; Science & Technology Studies ; Communication Studies
I said goodbye to my father over a WhatsApp video call in October 2019. He was connected to a ventilator and they were about to pronounce him deceased in an east coast U.S. hospital, as I sat in my home in Ireland over 3,000 miles away. It all happened so suddenly; I was unable to get a flight in time to be there in person for this moment. We had chatted regularly over WhatsApp before that day. Weekly, we would communicate through glitched video and broken sound, sharing the ins and outs of our daily lives. These once magical tools...
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