New Social Ties

Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society
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Product description

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.

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  • ISBN13 9780230627284
  • Released 2006
  • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format Elektronisk medie
  • Language English