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New Social Ties : Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society

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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.

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Palgrave Macmillan
1349430609 / 9781349430604
Paperback
12/10/2006
220 pages
140 x 216 mm, 261 grams