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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821460203321

Autore

Ling Richard Seyler

Titolo

New tech, new ties : how mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion / / Rich Ling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008

ISBN

0-262-26093-X

1-282-09930-2

9786612099304

0-262-27841-3

1-4356-2802-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/33

Soggetti

Cell phones - Social aspects

Interpersonal communication - Technological innovations - Social aspects

Communication and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

How cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.