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New Social Ties
Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society
ISBN/EAN: 9780333984079
Umbreit-Nr.: 9046702
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: vii, 208 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 12.10.2006
Auflage: 1/2006
- Zusatztext
- 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.
- Kurztext
- Changing family, personal and social structures is a core topic within Sociology and Cultural Studies teaching and research with many full courses and modules offered at both undergraduate and postgraduate levelTopicality - the author's approach in focusing on 'friendship' ties, gender, and especially on the role of communication and new media in fostering relationshipsTheory and new research data - combines historical and theoretical analysis and description with a wealth of empirical evidence from first-hand research into both male and female networksIntrinsic importance - the break up of traditional social ties and the move towards more transient relationships seen as important for issues of care for the Other in society
- Autorenportrait
- 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 Practice of Cultural Studies. Her current research includes changing family values and sexual morality in a global context and media and journalism.