Friendship and Technology

This book explores the nature of technology - participatory media in particular - and its effects on our friendships and our fundamental sense of togetherness.

Autorentext

Tiffany Petricini is an assistant teaching professor of communication studies at Pennsylvania State Shenango in Sharon, PA. Her work focuses on media ecology, phenomenology, and communication ethics.

Zusammenfassung
This book explores the nature of technology participatory media in particular and its effects on our friendships and our fundamental sense of togetherness.

Inhalt

Introduction: Friendship as a Communicative Phenomenon 1 The Phenomenology of Encounter and its Relationship to Friendship 2 Particularity and Voice: Recognizing our Friends as Unique 3 Hermeneutic Presence: Dialogue and Digitization and the Implications for Friendship 4 Time and Space: Altered Dimensions of Friendship 5 Sunaisthesis: The Synecdochal Activity of Friendship Ethics 6 Better People, Better World: Friendship as a Communicative Good