When the ocean is not the final frontier. A (very) long distance relationship through ICT's

Abstract

This study aims to understand the new forms of long distance interpersonal relations that emerge as a result from innovations of information and communication technologies (ICT's). This project centres on an autoethnography of one of the researchers who travelled to Barcelona to undertake a doctorate, leaving his wife back home in Chile. The study focuses on the reconstruction of the processes involved in the production of a new form of long distance interpersonal relationship. On one hand, it reflects an interest in the very description of these new forms of social interaction, and on the other, on an interest in the processes that lead towards the stabilization/naturalization of technological innovations in daily life.