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Title:
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New tech, new ties : how mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion
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Authors:
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Richard Seyler Ling, Author
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2008
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-0-262-12297-9
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Format:
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xv, 224 p. / 24 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-221) and index.
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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HE9713
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Subjects:
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Cell phones
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Communication and culture
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Interpersonal communication--Technological innovations--Social aspects
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Description:
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The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone strengthens social bonds among family and friends. In New Tech, New Ties, Rich Ling examines how the mobile telephone affects both kinds of interactions - those mediated by mobile communication and those that are face to face. Ling finds that through the use of various social rituals the mobile telephone strengthens social ties within the circle of friends and family - sometimes at the expense of interaction with those who are physically present - and creates what he calls "bounded solidarity.
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Contents note:
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1. Mobile communication and ritual interaction : the plumber's entrance -- 2. ICT and tension between social and individual impulses -- 3. Durkheim on ritual interaction and social cohesion -- 4. Goffman on ritual interaction in everyday life -- 5. Collins and ritual interaction chains -- 6. Ritual as a catalytic event -- 7. Co-present interaction and mobile communication -- 8. Mobile telephony and mediated ritual interaction -- 9. Bounded solidarity : mobile communication and cohesion in the familiar sphere -- 10. The recalibration of social cohesion.
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Format :
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In print
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