Portable Communities
(October 2008)
The Social Dynamics of Online and Mobile Connectedness Mary Chayko - Author
RUNNER-UP – 2009 Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award
Looks at the social implications of having constant access to others through cell phones, wireless computers, and other electronic devices.
“I blog, text, IM, email, and I don’t like to be without my cell phone or have to shut it off—even in a theater. Let’s put it this way, my ‘connections&r...(Read More)
Connecting
(August 2002)
How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age Mary Chayko - Author
Explores how we come to feel connected to those we have never met face-to-face.
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 manag...(Read More)
