00000cab a22000001a 4500 UP-1685675941123975633 Buklod 20231008011921.0 a r |||| u| ta 200217s xx d | ||r ||||| || UPVTC eng Galam, Roderick G. author Communication and Filipino seamen's wives imagined communion and the intimacy of absence Roderick G. Galam. Quezon City Ateneo de Manila University June, 2012 pp.153-186 tables. "Seamen's wives know absence very well. Their lives are striated by it. Based on interviews with seamen's wives conducted in Ilocos Norte, this article investigates the communicative practices obtaining amid absence and separation, and the wives' activities that bring their husbands home and bring "home" to their husbands. It examines how new communication technologies, particularly the cellphone, have engendered new ways of becoming present and intimate. For seamen's families, cellphone-mediated intimacy creates a space of imagined communion, which becomes the locus of the reproduction of family and effective ties and is itself the result of these emotional and material activities." Seafaring life. Telecommunication. Cellular telephones. Neoliberalism. Transnational communication. Philippine studies : historical and ethnographic viewpoints 60, 2 (June 2012). Fi UPTAC UPTAC Article