Care through digital connections: enacting elder care through everyday information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Indian transnational families Institute of Tropical Medicine
What becomes of elder care when family members are scattered across vast geographic distances? Based on ethnographic fieldwork with families of nurses from Kerala, South India, this thesis explores how care may be reshaped in a transnational context. Specifically, I ask how everyday information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as mobile phones and webcams, participate in elder care at a distance. Drawing on the theoretical approach of ...