“Come On, Put Viber, We Can Drink Coffee Together”: Performing (Im)mobile Intimacy in Turbulent Times Among Aging Migrants

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Abstract This paper critically examines how elderly people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse(CALD) backgrounds in Victoria, Australia use visual-based platforms navigating the lockdown Melbourne, Australia. Based on conducting remote interviews among 15 participants 2020, findings show digital practices as integral to forge maintain cultural identities social connectedness. Using mobilities perspective interrogate behaviours, I coin term ‘(im)mobile intimacy’ articulate a sense of closeness enabled, felt negotiated through modes movements stasis with online platforms. contend that differential mediated immobilities are informed by social, contextual, technological factors, revealing textures affective relational dimensions enacting mobile intimacy. In sum, locating both environments, this sheds light (re)production exclusion during COVID-19 pandemic.

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عنوان ژورنال: Communication, Culture & Critique

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['1753-9129', '1753-9137']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac011