Robyn, You said: "I am especially interested in if there is there something qualitatively different about the "real-time" video communication offered by Skype - hearing, and seeing the lived flesh of the "real" person and space on the screen - rather than just written, text and phone communication, that is changing everyday familial geographies and relationships?" I wanted to draw your attention to my work about online interview research using real-time technologies, including Skype/videoconferencing/video calls as well as multi-channel web conferencing tools that allow for both face-to-face exchange and shared whiteboards for other kinds of visual exchange (i.e. generating drawings or diagramming images of research phenomena, viewing images or media, etc.). I've been looking at those questions about how different platforms allow for not only different kinds of exchange but also different kinds of data. Online Interviews in Real Time, from Sage, may be of interest to you. (It is know an e-book on Amazon as well.) This sounds like a very interesting project, and I would love to hear more about it-- feel free to contact me off-list. Janet Janet Salmons Ph.D. Capella University School of Business and Vision2Lead, Inc. Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at #einterview Now available on Kindle! Online Interviews in Real Time and Cases in Online Interview Research PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943 jsalmons@vision2lead.com