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New Social Ties

Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society

Deborah Chambers author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:12th Oct '06

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New Social Ties cover

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.

ISBN: 9780333984086

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

208 pages