Intimacy among strangers
Författare
Summary, in English
Mobile telephone calls in public places often entail the revelation of intimate details about the caller's life to strangers. This article reports some results of the authors eavesdropping on mobile phone calls in public places and also takes the first step into analysis of the fascinating mix of visibility and inaccessibility, intimacy and alienation that is the mobile telephone call in a public place. The article discusses how this intimacy among strangers may be understood using Goffman´s concepts of impression management, involvement shields and civil inattention.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2001
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
309-316
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Mundane Behavior
Volym
2
Issue
3
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Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Millersville University
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- educational sciences
- sociologi
- civil inattention
- sociology
- impression management
- public places
- mobile phones
- intimacy
- utbildningsvetenskap
- Goffman
- mobiltelefoni
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1529-3041