dc.contributor.author | Virnoche, Mary E. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-19T18:45:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-05-19T18:45:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001-04-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Social Thought and Research, Volume 24, Number 1&2 (2001), pp. 343-367 http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5179 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5179 | |
dc.description.abstract | Disclosures, secrets, and stranger associations have long intrigued social researchers. In this article I consider the transformation of stranger associations with the use of mediated communication. 1 consider how non-mediated and mediated forms of stranger associations vary based on characteristics such as synchronicity, distance, ease of break, permanency of break, and stranger shopping. In addition, I propose the concept of "strange making technologies"-those that createfor acquaintances and intimates that particular tension between remoteness and distance that Simmel identified as unique to the form of the stranger. Furthermore, I suggest that this strange making quality that is particularly strong in Internet communications has both the potential to deepen and dismantle already established relationships. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Department of Sociology, University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | Copyright (c) Social Thought and Research. For rights questions please contact Editor, Department of Sociology, Social Thought and Research, Fraser Hall, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045. | |
dc.title | THE STRANGER TRANSFORMED: CONCEPTUALZING ON AND OFFLINE STRANGER DISCLOUSURE | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.17161/STR.1808.5179 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |