Persistent and Pervasive Community New Communication Technologies and the Future of Community

摘要: Two affordances of digital communication technologies, persistent contact and pervasive awareness, are ushering in fundamental change to the structure community. These break from mobility narrative that has described community since rise urban industrialism, including accounts networked individualism a postindustrial or network society. In contrast images late modernity, which suggest will be maximized point where people nearly free constraints time, space, social bonds, persistent–pervasive renews opportunities premodern structure. As result persistence—a counterforce mobility—relationships contexts they formed less transitory than at any time modern history. Through ambient, lean, asynchronous nature media, awareness supplements surveillance with informal watchfulness typified preindustrial It provides for clo...