Mobile Communication - Bringing Us Together and Tearing Us Apart (Hardcover)

This volume brings together scholars from around the world to consider how mobile communication is both bringing us together and destroying our sense of social cohesion. There is no question that uses of technology can lead to increased cohesion within personal communities. However, as social networks become inundated with mobile communication users, the contributors argue, they may become isolated and social division can take hold. Mobile Communication covers a wide range of topics, including the replacement of co-present interaction with mediated contact; analysis of mobile-based cohesion and gender; the role of media choice and its effect on the quality as well as quantity of social cohesion; mobile communication and communities of interest; and mobile communication, cohesion, and youth. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of mobile use and its impact on social cohesion are also considered. There are chapters on caravan couples in Australia, factory workers in China, young couples in Germany, citizens in Slovenia, and sports clubs in Ireland. There is also research on drunken calls between university students in the U.S., calls among international students in Switzerland who strive to keep in contact, and communications by immigrant women in Melbourne, Australia.

General

Imprint:	Transaction Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2011
First published:	May 2011
Editors:	Rich Ling • Scott W. Campbell
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With printed dust jacket
Pages:	360
ISBN-13:	978-1-4128-1861-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4128-1861-3
Barcode:	9781412818612

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