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Auteur(s) : Baym, Nancy K.
Titre(s) : Personal connections in the digital age [Texte imprimé] / Nancy K. Baym
Publication : Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2010
Description matérielle : vi, 184 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Collection : Digital media and society
Lien à la collection : Digital media and society series
Comprend : New forms of personal connection ; Making new media make sense ; Communication in
digital spaces ; Communities and networks ; New relationships, new selves? ; Digital
media in relational development and maintenance ; Conclusion : The myth of cyberspace.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-176) and indexes
The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings
of our selves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects
on our lives. This timely and vibrant book provides frameworks for thinking critically
about the roles of digital media in personal relationships. Rather than providing
exuberant accounts or cautionary tales, it offers a data-grounded primer on how to
make sense of these important changes in relational life. The book identifies the
core relational issues these media disturb and shows how the ways we talk about them
echo historical discussions about earlier communication technologies. Chapters explore
how we use mediated language and nonverbal behavior to develop and maintain communities,
social networks, new relationships, and to maintain relationships in our everyday
lives. It combines research findings with lively examples to address questions such
as whether mediated interaction can be warm and personal, whether people are honest
about themselves online, whether relationships that start online can work, and whether
using these media damages the other relationships in our lives. Throughout, the book
argues for approaching these questions with firm understandings of the qualities of
media as well as the social and personal contexts in which they are developed and
used. Personal Connections in the Digital Age will be required reading for all students
and scholars of media, communication studies, and sociology, as well as all those
who want a firmer understanding of digital media and everyday life--Publisher
Sujet(s) : Relations humaines
Internet -- Société
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780745643311 (hbk.). - ISBN 0745643310 (hbk.). - ISBN 9780745643328 (pbk.).
- ISBN 0745643329 (pbk.)
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