Exploring the concept of presence, the study delves into various communication forms such as letters, postcards, and emails. It examines the interplay between the content of these communications and the material and technological frameworks that support them. By analyzing how presence operates as both an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy, the work offers insights into the dynamics of networked communication practices.
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.