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050			_aHT 9713 .L56 2008
100			_aLing, Richard Seyler _eauthor
245		0	_aNew tech, new ties : _bhow mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion / _cRichard Seyler Ling
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe MIT Press, _cc2008
300			_axv, 224 pages ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aPreface -- 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 Communications -- 8. Mobile Telephony and Mediated Ritual Interaction -- 9. Bounded Solidarity: Mobile Communications and Cohesion in the Familiar Sphere -- 10. The Recalibration of Social Cohesion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aThe message of this book is simple: the mobile phone strengthens social bonds among family and friends. With a traditional land-line telephone, we place calls to a location and ask hopefully if someone is "there"; with a mobile phone, we have instant and perpetual access to friends and family regardless of where they are. But when we are engaged in these intimate conversations with absent friends, what happens to our relationship with the people who are actually in the same room with us? 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 family--sometimes at the expense of interaction with those who are physically present--and creates what he calls "bounded solidarity." Ling argues that mobile communication helps to engender and develop social cohesion within the family and the peer group. Drawing on the work of Emile Durkheim, Erving Goffman, and Randall Collins, Ling shows that ritual interaction is a catalyst for the development of social bonding. From this perspective, he examines how mobile communication affects face-to-face ritual situations and how ritual is used in interaction mediated by mobile communication. He looks at the evidence, including interviews and observations from around the world, that documents the effect of mobile communication on social bonding and also examines some of the other possibly problematic issues raised by tighter social cohesion in small groups.Rich Ling is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor and Adjunct Research Scientist at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society.
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