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New Social Ties: Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society
Deborah Chambers
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Description for New Social Ties: Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBA; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 264.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333984086
SKU
V9780333984086
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Ref
99-15
About Deborah Chambers
DEBORAH CHAMBERS is Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, where she teaches social and cultural theory and media analysis. She is the author of Representing the Family, joint author with Linda Steiner and Carole Fleming of Women and Journalism and joint author with Richard Johnson, Parvati Raghuram and Estella Tincknell of The ... Read more
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