Visualising intimacies: The circulation of digital images in the Trinidadian context

摘要: Abstract This article examines images circulated through mobile media to emphasise the emotion work invested into familial relationships that are defined by place. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Trinidad, contributes a cross-cultural perspective literature digital visual communication and family has typically focused peer-to-peer between youth or nuclear households predominantly Western contexts. The consequences of uses platforms strongly intertwined with category relationship (mother daughter, couples for example), their cultural inflections, hierarchies life-stages individuals. Digital functions navigate, maintain acknowledge varies across different platforms. more public over Facebook private circulation WhatsApp provide examples illustrate positive aspects intimacy constant contact as well ambivalent feelings obligation reciprocate compelled availability afforded media. advances understanding emotions, revealing how norms, ideals expectations familyhood practices often essentialised context-driven specific.