Two Modes of Maintaining Interpersonal Relations Through Telephone

From the Domestic to the Mobile Phone

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ID23168946
AuthorsC Licoppe (0000-0002-0777-0599, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages171-185
Publication date2017-07-28
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueMachines That Become Us (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203786826-13
OpenAlexW2907709294
ISBN9780203786826
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited1

The social sciences constantly over represent network society, overemphasizing the individual’s involvement in relationships. The theory of social networks, for example, is based largely on the idea of connected individuals who calculate their opportunities in a realm of relationships that defines their social capital. (Burt 1992; Lazega 1992; Forsé and Degenne 1994; Katz and Rice 2002). This type of theory is also at the center of discourse on organizations (Veltz 2000), including those of management consultants and theoreticians who, with more operational intents, believe in social flexibility and the network structures thought to maximize it. This thinking has also become a general subject of interest in sociology, forming a process of justification and equivalence between individuals. It also characterizes what Luc Boltanski has suggested calling the cité connexionniste: an individual motivated by a desire to be connected, fully equipped with a set of managed relationships that exist among fluctuating objectives and temporary plans. The individual’s greatness, then, lies in his capacity to jump from one project to the next and avoid getting stuck in a given position (Boltanski and Chiappello 1999).

Business · Computer network · Internet privacy · Interpersonal communication · Linguistics · Mobile phone · Mobile telephone · Phone · Telecommunications · Communication · Computer Science · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology

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