Negotiating conviviality
Subtitle: the use of information and communication technologies by migrant members of the Bay Community Church in Cape Town
By: Paula Louise Hay
Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Mankon, Cameroon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9789956792726
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Interpersonal communication; Case studies; Information technology; Immigrants; Internal migrants
Description: This book is an ethnographic study of a group of migrants in Cape Town from Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It seeks to understand how migrants overcome structural exclusion by forming and maintaining convivial relationships through the Bay Community Church and how this is facilitated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The book argues that ICTs are implicated in the negotiation of conviviality. ICTs allow for a negotiation of intimacy and distance; although their functions may facilitate more contact than is desired or further distance those already separated physically.