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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (243 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262278416
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New Tech, New TiesDDC classification:
  • 303.48/33
LOC classification:
  • HE9713.M43 2008
Online resources:
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.
Summary: How cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.
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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.

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

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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