Cider/Perry in Brazil

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910835454503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Euromonitor International Ltd
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico

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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970149203321
• Autore: Ling Richard Seyler
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008
• ISBN: 9786612099304; 9780262260930; 026226093X; 9781282099302; 1282099302; 9780262278416; 0262278413; 9781435628021; 1435628020
• 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.