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New Social Ties

Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society

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  • © 2006

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  1. Deborah Chambers

    1. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Deborah Chambers
    Pages 1-12

  3. Changing Ideas about Social Ties

    • Deborah Chambers
    Pages 13-32

  4. Freedom and Choice in Personal Relationships

    • Deborah Chambers
    Pages 33-49

  5. Hegemonic Masculine Identities and Male Bonds

    • Deborah Chambers
    Pages 50-70

  6. Feminine Identities and Female Bonds

    • Deborah Chambers
    Pages 71-91

  7. The Decline and Rise of ‘Community’

    • Deborah Chambers
    Pages 92-112

  8. Network Society

    • Deborah Chambers
    Pages 113-132

  9. Virtual Intimacy and Online Sociality

    • Deborah Chambers
    Pages 133-153

  10. The Politics of Social and Personal Relationships

    • Deborah Chambers
    Pages 154-168

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 169-208
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About this book

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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  • University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Deborah Chambers

About the author

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.

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