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

Author: Richard Seyler Ling
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone strengthens social bonds among family and friends. 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 of various social rituals the mobile telephone strengthens social ties within the circle of friends and  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Ling, Richard Seyler.
New tech, new ties.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008
(OCoLC)651753189
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Seyler Ling
ISBN: 9780262122979 0262122979
OCLC Number: 137331490
Description: xv, 224 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Rich Ling.
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How cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.  Read more...

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"I recommend this book to practitioners in the field of mobile communications." -- Eric W. Yocam, Computing Reviews

 
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