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.
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