Cabalquinto Earvin Charles B, Büscher Monika
Deakin University, Australia.
Lancaster University, UK.
Media Cult Soc. 2023 May;45(4):859-868. doi: 10.1177/01634437221119295. Epub 2022 Aug 16.
The COVID-19 pandemic has reconfigured every social, political, economic and cultural aspect of modern society. Millions of people have been stuck in lockdown within and across borders, national and regional terrains, in their homes and worse places. At this time of unprecedented change and 'stuckedness', digital communication technologies have served as a lifeline to forge and nurture communication, intimate ties and a sense of continuity and belongingness. But being stuck and simultaneously virtually mobile has brought many difficulties, tensions and paradoxes. In this paper we discuss first insights from a study with 15 members of the older Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) population in Victoria, Australia to explore experiences of being physically stuck and virtually mobile. We find practices of translocal care - ways of caring for distant others through digital technologies, has been made more complex by the pandemic and shaped by two dynamics: networked collective 'existential mobility', and a quantification of feeling that we call 'intimacy 5.0'.
新冠疫情重塑了现代社会的每一个社会、政治、经济和文化层面。数百万人被困在境内外、国家和地区的封锁之中，居家隔离，甚至处境更糟。在这个前所未有的变革与“被困”时期，数字通信技术成为了维系和培养沟通、亲密关系以及连续性和归属感的生命线。然而，被困同时又具备虚拟移动性带来了诸多困难、紧张局势和矛盾。在本文中，我们首先讨论对澳大利亚维多利亚州15名文化和语言多元（CALD）的老年群体成员进行研究所得出的初步见解，以探讨身体被困但具备虚拟移动性的经历。我们发现，跨地方关怀的实践——即通过数字技术关爱远方他人的方式，因疫情而变得更加复杂，并受到两种动态因素的影响：网络化集体的“生存流动性”，以及我们称之为“亲密关系5.0”的情感量化。
