New Tech, New Ties - How Mobile Communication is Reshaping Social Cohesion : How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion

Preface ix Acknowledgements xiii Mobile Communication and Ritual Interaction: The Plumber's Entrance 1(22) ICT and Tension between Social and Individual Impulses 23(18) Durkheim on Ritual Interaction and Social Cohesion 41(16) Goffman on Ritual Interaction in Everyday Life 57(16) Collins and Ritual Interaction Chains 73(10) Ritual as a Catalytic Event 83(10) Co-Present Interaction and Mobile Communication 93(24) Mobile Telephony and Mediated Ritual Interaction 117(42) Bounded Solidarity: Mobile Communication and Cohesion in the Familiar Sphere 159(16) The Recalibration of Social Cohesion 175(14) Notes 189(16) Bibliography 205(18) Index 223