Rural Isolation – Can Computer-Mediated Communication Help?

Autor:	Stella Mills
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Isolation (health care) business.industry 05 social sciences Internet privacy Religious studies 050109 social psychology Loneliness medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Landline Computer-mediated communication medicine.symptom business Social psychology 050107 human factors
Zdroj:	Rural Theology. 14:12-24
ISSN:	2042-1273 1470-4994
DOI:	10.1080/14704994.2016.1154724
Popis:	Rural communities are often isolated and their inhabitants may suffer from one or more of the different genres of isolation, even leading to loneliness. This article explores the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) as a tool for relieving isolation. A light framework is developed from the literature which associates the different genres and their associated characteristics of isolation with the possible usage of CMCs and this framework is examined, using semi-structured interviews, within a small tightly knit church community on a northerly island in the UK. The findings suggest that there is a place for visual CMCs for helping to alleviate isolation from family and close friends, but the (landline) telephone is still the most used CMC. Interestingly, email is seen as a more formal means of communication and is used less for personal communication.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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