New Social Ties: Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society

by Deborah Chambers

Book Overview

Deborah Chambers draws on the metaphor of friendship as a strategy for exploring contemporary changes in informal social ties. She traces the shift from fixed and permanent ties of family, neighbourhood and community to fluid and transient ties typified by computer mediated communication.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333984080
• ISBN13: 9780333984086
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"