List of illustrations. Acknowledgements. CHAPTER ONE: New forms of personal connection. CHAPTER TWO: Making New Media make sense. CHAPTER THREE: Communication in digital spaces. CHAPTER FOUR: Communities and Networks. CHAPTER FIVE: New relationships, new selves? CHAPTER SIX: Digital media in relational development and maintenance. CONCLUSION: The myth of cyberspace. REFERENCES.
Nancy Baym is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas
"Combining a wealth of scholarship with illustrative anecdotes, Personal Connections in the Digital Age offers anaccessible, chatty, and cogent account of how new communicationstechnologies affect interpersonal communication and relationships.Perhaps the greatest strength of Personal Connections is itssteadfast refusal to accept dominant narratives or simpleexplanations for the relationships we carry on in digital forms,while providing a stunningly clear introduction to these complexsocial and technological dynamics." Elizabeth Ellcessor, University of Wisconsin Madison,USA "Combining in-depth knowledge of the topic based on decades ofBaym's own and others' research with a clear, concise andstraightforward writing style that makes it a joy to read, this isthe kind of accessible book that many academics would love to havewritten." Times Higher Education "Lively and thought-provoking throughout, this book challengesthe myth that cyberspace' dramatically transforms personalconnections by revealing, instead, the complex and subtle ways inwhich people manage social interaction online and offline inresponse to the affordances of the various modes of communicationavailable." Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and authorof Children and the Internet "Something is happening. Do you know what it is? Nancy Baymdoes, with a book bristling with ideas and authority. Filled withclear, lively writing, she both surveys and advances the field. Ilearned so much." Barry Wellman, University of Toronto "Baym provides us a clear, concise, and thought-provokingdiscussion of the role of new digital media our interpersonal andsocietal relationships. She creates a welcome blend of her own andothers' research, the affordances and capabilities of new media,historical and technical contexts of the telegraph through theInternet, stable as well as changing societal norms, and her ownInternet experiences." Ronald E. Rice, University of California, SantaBarbara
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