New Tech, New Ties How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion

Name: New Tech, New Ties How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion
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ISBN: 9780262122979

ISBN-10: 0262122979

ISBN-13: 9780262122979

Edition: 2008

Authors: Richard Ling

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The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone strengthens social bonds among family and friends. With a traditional land-line telephone, we place calls to a location and ask hopefully if someone is there; with a mobile phone, we have instant and perpetual access to friends and family regardless of where they are. But when we are engaged in these intimate conversations with absent friends, what happens to our relationship with the people who are actually in the same room with us? 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…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/8/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990



Preface


Acknowledgements



Mobile Communication and Ritual Interaction


The Plumber's Entrance



ICT and Tension between Social and Individual Impulses



Durkheim on Ritual Interaction and Social Cohesion



Goffman on Ritual Interaction in Everyday Life



Collins and Ritual Interaction Chains



Ritual as a Catalytic Event



Co-Present Interaction and Mobile Communication



Mobile Telephony and Mediated Ritual Interaction



Bounded Solidarity


Mobile Communication and Cohesion in the Familiar Sphere



The Recalibration of Social Cohesion


Notes


Bibliography


Index