Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together and Tearing Us Apart

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Rich Ling, Scott W. Campbell
Transaction Publishers, 31 dec 2011 - 358 pagina's
Mobile Communication covers a wide range of topics. These include the replacement of co-present interaction with mediated contact and analysis of mobile-based cohesion and gender. The authors also explore the role of media choice and its effect on the quality as well as quantity of social cohesion. Other topics include mobile communication and communities of interest; and mobile communication, cohesion, and youth. This volume brings together scholars from around the world to consider how mobile communication both builds and destroys our sense of social cohesion. There is no question that uses of technology can lead to increased cohesion within personal communities. For example, this volume includes research on caravan couples in Australia, factory workers in China, young couples in Germany, citizens in Slovenia, and sports clubs in Ireland. It also includes research on drunken calls between university students in the US, calls of international students in Switzerland and communications between immigrant women in Melbourne, Australia. However, the contributors also argue that as social networks become inundated with mobile communication users, these users may become increasingly isolated and social division can ensue.

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Acknowledgments
A Precursor to Public
A Case Study
Phones in Beijing 61
The Unexpected
Mobile Phone Use and Social
Extended Sociability and Relational Capital
Network and Mobile Sociality in Personal
Learning from
Youth Culture
Interpersonal Communication beyond Geographical
Their Impact on Social Cohesion 293
Connecting and Disconnecting through
About the Contributors 331
Index 339
Copyright

Theres an Offline Community on the Line 211

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Rich Ling is professor at the IT University of Copenhagen and is also a sociologist at Telenor’s research institute near Oslo, Norway. Previously, he was Pohs Visiting Professor of Communication at the University of Michigan. He is the author of New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication is Reshaping Social Cohesion,and The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone’s Impact on Society. Scott W. Campbell is associate professor of communication studies and Pohs Fellow of Telecommunications in the department of communication studies at the University of Michigan. His research has been published in the journals Communication Education, Communication Monographs, International Journal of Communication, Journal of Applied Communication Research, New Media & Society, and others.

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