The Digital Bind
Constant Connectivity and the Reconfiguring of Family, Work, and Friendship
Series: Studies in Mobile Communication;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 11 July 2025
- ISBN 9780197798591
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 17x156x235 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English 678
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Short description:
What has constant connectivity meant for social life? In The Digital Bind, Jeffrey Boase examines how the mobile devices we use daily has reshaped family, work, and friendship. Building on a new theoretical approach, Boase reveals the challenges and opportunities of constant connectivity as well as the profound relationship between technology and society.
MoreLong description:
As mobile devices continue to evolve--from basic phones designed solely for calling to more sophisticated smartphones and wearable devices--what remains constant is that the portability of these devices creates new possibilities for social connectivity. By lowering our social dependence on place, mobiles open up the timing of our availability, enabling the technological reality of constant connectivity for much of the world's population. What has constant connectivity meant for social life? How have relationships adapted and changed as mobile devices become more complex?
In The Digital Bind, Jeffrey Boase explores the social implications of constant connectivity for family, work, and friendship. Using a new theoretical lens called the "configuration approach," Boase shows how complex technological and social arrangements explain why individuals often draw on a multitude of apps and devices to stay connected. He presents a comprehensive empirical study that reveals three common practices of connection: media situatedness, the division of media, and temporal boundaries. These practices help individuals manage the challenges and opportunities of constant connectivity, while at the same time deeply binding the digital to the social. By combining historical context, theoretical insights, and rigorous empirical research, The Digital Bind offers a comprehensive account of how the apps and devices that we use to navigate contemporary social life have become embedded into our lives and our relationships.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Connectivity in context
1. The social implications of constant connectivity
2. The configuration approach
3. Social configurations
4. Technological configurations
Part II: Practices of connection
5. Discovering practices of connection
6. Three common practices of connection
7. At work
8. With family
9. With friends
10. The digital bind
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
