Mary Chayko

Connecting (eBook, PDF)

How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791488300
• Artikelnr.: 60501713

Autorenporträt

Mary Chayko is Assistant Professor and Chair of Sociology at the College of St. Elizabeth.