Friendship and Technology

Abstract

This book explores the nature of technology-participatory media in particularand its effects on our friendships and our fundamental sense of togetherness.Situating the notion of friendship in the modern era, the author examines the possibilities and challenges of technology on our friendships. Taking a media ecology approach to interpersonal communication, she looks at issues around phenomenology, recognition of friends as unique, hermeneutics in a digital world and mediated communication, social dimensions of time and space, and communication ethics.Examining friendship as a communicative phenomenon and exploring the ways in which it is created, sustained, managed, produced, and reproduced, this book will be relevant to scholars and students of interpersonal communication, mediated communication, communication theory and philosophy, and media ecology.

Exploring Online-to-Offline Friendships: A Netnographic Study of Interpersonal Communication, Trust, and Privacy in Online Social Networks

“…Specifically, the sign is meant to sound and gesture. Written language can be considered dialogue in exceptional circumstances (Petricini, 2022).…”

“…Second dialogue as reciprocally interpretive space. In friendship, the interpretive process is reciprocal and ever-changing (Petricini, 2022). It means that "It is not that I must reveal myself to, or see myself in, the other, to any great extent, but that in friendship, I am distinctively receptive both to other's interests and to their way of seeing me (Cocking & Kennett, 1998).…”

History and Sociology of Science During the Crisis and Transitional Periods of Social Development

“…Therefore, know ledge society can be better described by so ciology than by economics [7, p. 278]. These theore tical refl ections were developed in number of studies concerning the infl uence of informa ti on and com munication technologies on a prac tice of scho larly research and infrastructu ral changes in science, particularly on transformation of the system of science communica ti on, intensity of information fl ows, changes in forms of leadership and assessment of con t ri bution into science D. W. Braben [8], E. For s berg, L. Geschwind, S. Levander, W. Wermke [9], K. Bjоrkdahl, A. Santiago, F. Duharte [10], transformations of scientifi c ethos L. Ryzhko, V. Onoprienko, T. Bes salova [11], B. J. Macfarlane [12], V. Onoprienko [13], changes in the principles of interaction bet ween scien ce and society, also education A. T. Petricini [14], Carmen Martinez-Vargas [15], S. Hennessy [16], M. Bucchi, B. Trench [17], the impact of technologies on social processes S. Maa sen, S. Dickel, C. Schneider [18], K. Rommetveit [19].…”