@article{199c8bb8b7ad490d8af069abaacdeee2,
title = "Digital genealogies: Understanding social mobile media line in the role of Japanese families",
abstract = "This article explores the emergence of the dominant mobile social media platform in Japan, LINE. In particular, the article focuses upon its usage to maintain familial ties, especially between matriarchal connections. Drawing upon ethnographic work with 12 families over 3 years, this article seeks to provide a detailed and nuanced sense of how social mobile media is deployed intergenerationally.",
keywords = "Families, Japan, Mobile media, Social media",
author = "Kana Ohashi and Fumitoshi Kato and Larissa Hjorth",
note = "Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Australian Research Council Linkage with Intel, Locating the Mobile: locative media in households in Tokyo, Shanghai, and Melbourne (LP130100848). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2017.",
year = "2017",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1177/2056305117703815",
language = "English",
volume = "3",
journal = "Social Media and Society",
issn = "2056-3051",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "2",
}