Personal Connections in the Digital Age (Revised) (DMS - Digital Media and Society) - Hardcover

Baym, Nancy K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745670334 ISBN 13: 9780745670331

Publisher: Polity, 2015

Synopsis

The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of relationships. In this new edition of her engaging book, Nancy Baym provides frameworks for thinking critically about the roles of digital media in personal relationships - a data-grounded primer on how to make sense of these changes in relational life.

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Review:

"New communications technologies are always hyped by some people and denounced by others. Nancy Baym's brilliant book explodes myths and challenges stereotypes. Her clear-sighted and penetrating analysis provides the mental toolkit needed to reach a more nuanced view of the social impact of digital media."
Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist

"In this lucid yet learned book, Nancy Baym covers a breadth of analysis on whether and how the internet and mobile communication are reconfiguring our identities and personal relationships. While recognising the many continuities in our social life from offline to online, she also notes some signs of optimism, showing how we may yet build new, perhaps better, personal connections in the digital age."
Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science

About the Author:

Nancy K. Baym is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Visiting Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0745670334
• ISBN 13: 9780745670331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240