Personal connections in the digital age

Personal connections in the digital age

by Baym, Nancy K.

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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 identi…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Personal connections in the digital age / Nancy K. Baym.

Summary

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Polity Press
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0745656196, 9780745656199, 9780745695952, 0745695957
  • oclc:ocn885336736
  • LC Classification:HM742
  • Dewey Decimal:303.4833

Table of Contents

Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: New forms of personal connection; Chapter 2: Making new media make sense; Chapter 3: Communication in digital spaces; Chapter 4: Communities and networks; Chapter 5: New relationships, new selves?; Chapter 6: Digital media in relational development and maintenance; Conclusion: the myth of cyberspace; References; Index of names; General Index.

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Subjects

Cell phones -- Social aspects Internet -- Aspect social Internet -- Social aspects Interpersonal relations Interpersonal relations -- Technologica… Online social networks -- Psychological… Réseaux sociaux (Internet) -- Aspect ps… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General

Writers

Baym, Nancy K.

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