Miller, V.A. (2008) New Media, Networking and Phatic Culture. Convergence: The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies, 14 (4). pp. 387-400. ISSN 1354-8565.
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Abstract
This article will demonstrate how the notion of ‘phatic communion’ has become an increasingly significant part of digital media culture alongside the rise of online networking practices. Through a consideration of the new media objects of blogs, social networking profiles and microblogs, along with their associated practices, I will argue, that the social contexts of ‘individualization’ and ‘network sociality’, alongside the technological developments associated with pervasive communication and ‘connected presence’ has led to an online media culture increasingly dominated by phatic communications. That is, communications which have purely social (networking) and not informational or dialogic intents. I conclude with a discussion of the potential nihilistic consequences of such a culture.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | blogging / database culture / microblogging / network sociality / phatic / post-social / social networking |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races T Technology > T Technology (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Social Policy Sociology and Social Research |
| Depositing User: | Vince Miller |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Apr 2009 09:11 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jul 2012 10:03 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/13028 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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