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- Title
- Bonds and bridges: mobile phone use and social capital debates
- Author(s)
- Wilken, Rowan
- Abstract
- The purpose of this chapter is to examine the points of intersection between mobile phone use and social capital theory. The chapter examines the available mobile phone literature and explores the extent to which mobile phones work to strengthen existing social ties (so-called strong links) and facilitate broader contacts outside a user's immediate social sphere (so-called weak links).
- Publication type
- Book chapter
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- Mobile communication: bringing us together and tearing us apart / Rich Ling and Scott W. Campbell (eds.), chapter 7, pp. 127-149
- Publication year
- 2011
- FOR Code(s)
- 200101 Communication Studies; 200212 Screen and Media Culture
- Keyword(s)
- Mobile phones; Social capital
- Publisher
- Transaction Publishers
- ISBN
- 9781412818612, 1412818613
- Publisher URL
- http://www.transactionpub.com/title/Mobile-Communication--978-1-4128-1861-2.html
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2011 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey..
- Peer reviewed
