Email and the Everyday

Stories of Disclosure, Trust, and Digital Labor

Esther Milne

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MIT Press
02 July 2024

Computing: general

"An exploration of how email is experienced, understood, and materially structured as a practice spanning our everyday domestic and work lives.

An exploration of how email is experienced, understood, and materially structured as a practice spanning our everyday domestic and work lives.

Despite its many obituaries, email is not dead. As a global mode of business and personal communication, email outstrips newer technologies of online interaction; it is deeply embedded in our everyday lives. And yet-perhaps because the ubiquity of email has obscured its study-this is the first scholarly book devoted to email as a key historical, social, and commercial site of digital communication in our everyday lives. In Email and the Everyday, Esther Milne examines how email is experienced, understood, and materially structured as a practice spanning the domestic and institutional spaces of daily life.

Email experiences range from the routine and banal to the surprising and shocking. Drawing on interviews and online surveys, Milne focuses on both the material and the symbolic properties of email. She maps the development of email as a technology and as an industry; considers institutional uses of email, including ""bureaucratic intensity"" of workplace email and the continuing vibrancy of email groups; and examines what happens when private emails end up in public archives, discussing the Enron email dataset and Hillary Clinton's infamous private server. Finally, Milne explores the creative possibilities of email, connecting eighteenth-century epistolary novels to contemporary ""email novels,"" discussing the vernacular expression of ASCII art and mail art, and examining email works by Carl Steadman, Miranda July, and others."

By: Esther Milne
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262552660
ISBN 10: 0262552663
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 02 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Esther Milne is Associate Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.