The article is being published in the new American Sociological Review. Both JSTOR and IngentaConnect carry ASR. I'm fairly convinced that the internet is a response to a felt need for connection that has been lacking since the 1970s "get an education and leave home to get a job far away from anyone and everything you've ever known" commuter mentality that I hope has reached its apex. The internet, in my mind, is a way to reconnect, after years of many of us not even knowing our neighbors' names. :-D. Deanya On Friday, June 23, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Mark Bell wrote:
interesting study....sort of. I doubt it even mentions online social relationships or concurrent online/rl relationships. It almost sounds to me to be from some pro-nuclear family agenda (he golden days in the 50's hen we had the Murphy's over to play cards and we actually talked). For instanced how many of you would i be contacting in the 80's? I feel more connected than ever to people. But then I'm a nerd =)
Anyone have a copy of the real study?
On 6/23/06, Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org> wrote:
It would be interesting to see how this fits into the whole "being alone together" argument within a technology context....for example, someone who doesn't want to be around people but who socializes happily in a MMORPG environment or spends hours upon hours on AIM or IRC.