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New tech, new ties : how mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion / Rich Ling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ling, Richard Seyler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cell phones--Social aspects.
- Cell phones.
- Interpersonal communication--Technological innovations--Social aspects.
- Interpersonal communication.
- Communication and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-221) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612099304
- 9780262260930
- 026226093X
- 9781282099302
- 1282099302
- 9780262278416
- 0262278413
- 9781435628021
- 1435628020
- OCLC:
- 560599299
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