Connected' Presence

The Emergence of a New Repertoire for Managing Social Relationships in a Changing Communication Technoscape

Bibliographic Data

ID4475658
AuthorsC Licoppe (0000-0002-0777-0599, France Telecom R&D, 38/40 avenue du Général Leclerc, 92131 Issy les Moulineaux, France, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume22
Issue1
Pages135-156
Publication date2004-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d323t
OpenAlexW2101419948
LanguageEN
Citations received415
References cited30

The aim of this research is to understand how the transformation of the communication technoscape allows for the development of particular patterns in the construction of social bonds. It provides evidence for the development of a 'connected' management of relationships, in which the (physically) absent party gains presence through the multiplication of mediated communication gestures on both sides, up to the point where copresent interactions and mediated distant exchanges seem woven into a single, seamless web. After reviewing some of the current social-science research, I rely on empirical studies of the uses of the home telephone, the mobile phone, and mobile text messaging in France to discuss how this particular repertoire of 'connected' relationships has gradually crystallized as these technologies have become widespread and as each additional communication resource has been made available to users. I also describe how such a 'connected' mode coexists with a previous way of managing 'mediated' relationships, in which communication technologies were thought to substitute or compensate for the rarity of face-to-face interactions

Computer-mediated communication · Face (sociological concept · Face-to-face interaction · Gesture · Human–computer interaction · Linguistics · Mobile phone · Mode (computer interface · Phone · Repertoire · Resource (disambiguation · Social relation · Sociology · Telecommunications · The Internet · World Wide Web · Communication · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology

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