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

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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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Book Title: New Social Ties
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society
Authors: Deborah Chambers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627284
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-98407-9Published: 12 October 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-98408-6Published: 12 October 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62728-4Published: 12 October 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 208
Topics: Family, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Anthropology, Social Theory, Gender Studies, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

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