Connecting
How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age
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<p>Explores how we come to feel connected to those we have never met face-to-face.</p><p>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.</p>
| ISBNs | 9780791454343, 9780791488300, 0791488306 |
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| Language | English |