Augmented Communication: The Effect of Digital Devices on Face-to-Face Interactions - Hardcover

Pinner, Richard S.

 
9783030020798: Augmented Communication: The Effect of Digital Devices on Face-to-Face Interactions
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3030020797 ISBN 13: 9783030020798
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot, 2019

Synopsis

This book explores the ways in which handheld networked devices can be used to enhance and augment interpersonal communication. The author examines in depth how the addition of visual and multimodal input, access to online search engines and the inclusion of participants from distant geographical locations (either synchronously or asynchronously) affects our face to face interactions. Presenting research data from several years of autoethnographic observation, this balanced work reveals the consequences, both positive and negative, of technology-dependent forms of discourse. In doing so, this sociolinguistic perspective fills a gap in the current literature and indicates possible future directions for the study of augmented communication. It will appeal in particular to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and digital humanities.




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About the Author

Richard S. Pinner is Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at Sophia University, Japan.

From the Back Cover

This book explores the ways in which handheld networked devices can be used to enhance and augment interpersonal communication. The author examines in depth how the addition of visual and multimodal input, access to online search engines and the inclusion of participants from distant geographical locations (either synchronously or asynchronously) affects our face to face interactions. Presenting research data from several years of autoethnographic observation, this balanced work reveals the consequences, both positive and negative, of technology-dependent forms of discourse. In doing so, this sociolinguistic perspective fills a gap in the current literature and indicates possible future directions for the study of augmented communication. It will appeal in particular to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and digital humanities.


Richard S. Pinner is Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at Sophia University, Japan.

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Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3030020797
ISBN 13 
9783030020798
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
144