Friendship and Technology A Philosophical Approach to Computer Mediated Communication

• Main Author: Petricini, Tiffany
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2022; Routledge; Knowledge Unlatched GmbH; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Research in Communication Studies
• Subjects: Anthropology; Aristotle’s Moral Philosophy; Communication studies; communication theory; Communicative Common Environment; Communicative Phenomenon; Cultural and media studies; Differential & developmental psychology; Digital Orality; digital relationships; ethics; Ethics and moral philosophy; Exploratory Affective Exchange; Family & Relationships; Final Unity; Football Game; friends; Friendship; Friendship Ethics; Friendship Loss; Friendship Termination; Good Life; Groups and group theory; Interdisciplinary studies; Interpersonal Communication; Interpersonal Media & Communication; Interpersonal Processes & Communication; Kinship & Community; Mathematics; Mathematics and Science; Media studies; mediated communication; Nonfiction; Ong’s Notion; participatory media; Phenomenological Distance; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy of Human Nature; Proximal Barriers; Psychology; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Schutz’s Work; Social and cultural anthropology; Social and political philosophy; Social Penetration Theory; Social, group or collective psychology; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Technology; Technology-Social aspects; Telematics; The Arts; togetherness; Topics in philosophy; Von Heyking; Young Men; Proximal Barriers; Good Life; Von Heyking; Communicative Phenomenon; Offline Contexts; digital relationships; togetherness; ethics; mediated communication; Social Penetration Theory; Friendship Loss; Phenomenological Distance; Repeated Encounters; Communicative Common Environment; interpersonal communication; Young Men; Ong’s Notion; Friendships End; Football Game; Exploratory Affective Exchange; philosophy; friends; Aristotle’s Moral Philosophy; Schutz’s Work; communication theory; Digital Orality; Final Unity; participatory media; Friendship Termination; Transcendental Reduction; Actual Reach; Friendship Ethics
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003188810
• ISBN: 1000543218; 9781000543216; 9781032037516; 1032037512; 9781032037493; 1032037490; 9781000543223; 9781003188810; 1003188818; 1000543226; 9781032000000

This book explores the nature of technology – participatory media in particular – and 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. This book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003188810/friendship-technology-tiffany-petricini