Connecting - Couverture souple

Chayko, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791454347 ISBN 13 : 9780791454343

Editeur : SUNY Press, 2002

Synopsis

Explores how we come to feel connected to those we have never met face-to-face.

How do we become connected to people we have never met in person? From celebrities to faraway relatives, from favorite writers to thinkers to people we meet on-line, we form a host of subtle, invisible, but very real social connections with distant others. In Connecting, Mary Chayko investigates how physically separated people manage to create a sense of connectedness-a "meeting of the minds"-and feel undeniably, if unexpectedly, bonded. Through dozens of personal accounts, the book considers the social "fallout" of connecting with absent others-the benefits and hazards-on our societies, communities, relationships, and individual selves. The result is a comprehensive yet intimate look at social bonding as it is rarely recorded: an examination of the bonds and communities we form across great distances, and even across time, in the age of the Internet.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mary Chayko is Professor of Sociology at the College of Saint Elizabeth and the author of Connecting: How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age, also published by SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SUNY Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791454347
• ISBN 13: 9780791454343
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
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• Personne responsable: non disponible