Email and the Everyday

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.