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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ling, Richard Seyler
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Subjects:	Cell phones > Social aspects. Interpersonal communication > Technological innovations > Social aspects. Communication and culture.
Online Access:	Full text (Emerson users only) Full text (Emmanuel users only) Full text (NECO users only) Full text (MCPHS users only) Full text (Wentworth users only)

Table of 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.

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