New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion

by Rich Ling

Book Overview

How cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.

The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone strengthens social bonds among family and friends. With a traditional land-line telephone, we place calls to a location and ask hopefully if someone is "there"; with a mobile phone, we have instant and perpetual access to friends and family regardless of where they are. But when we are engaged in these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262515040
• ISBN13: 9780262515047
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher