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Personal Connections in the Digital Age

ISBN: 9780745643328 | 0745643329
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 6/29/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of our selves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. This timely and vibrant book provides frameworks for thinking critically about the roles of digital media in personal relationships. Rather than providing exuberant accounts or cautionary tales, it offers a data-grounded primer on how to make sense of these important changes in relational life.The book identifies the core relational issues these media disturb ... MORE
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List of illustrationsp. vii
Acknowledgementsp. viii
New forms of personal connectionp. 1
New media, new boundariesp. 2
Plan of the bookp. 6
Seven key conceptsp. 6
Digital mediap. 13
Who uses new digital media?p. 17
Making new media make sensep. 22
Technological determinismp. 24
Social construction of technologyp. 39
Social shaping of technologyp. 44
Domestication of technologyp. 45
Communication in digital spacesp. 50
Mediation as impoverishmentp. 51
Putting social cues into digital communicationp. 59
Digital communication as a mixed modalityp. 63
Contextual influences on online communicationp. 66
Summaryp. 70
Communities and networksp. 72
Online communityp. 73
Networksp. 90
Engagement with local communityp. 92
Summaryp. 97
New relationships, new selves?p. 99
New relationships onlinep. 100
Identityp. 105
Authenticity and relationshipp. 119
Summaryp. 120
Digital media in relational development and maintenancep. 122
Building relationships with people we met onlinep. 124
Mediated relational maintenancep. 131
Uncertain normsp. 143
Summaryp. 148
Conclusion: the myth of cyberspacep. 150
Referencesp. 156
Index of namesp. 177
General indexp. 181
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Nancy K. Baym is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at University of Kansas


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