From 'Perpetual Contact' to Contextualized Mobility: Mobile Phones for Social Relations in Chinese Society

Autor:	Elaine J. Yuan
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Cultural Studies business.industry Communication media_common.quotation_subject Internet privacy Advertising Social relation ComputingMilieux_GENERAL Cohesion (linguistics) Etiquette Negotiation Mode (music) Interpersonal ties Mobile phone Sociology Mobile telephony business media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. 5:208-225
ISSN:	1751-3065 1751-3057
DOI:	10.1080/17513057.2012.670714
Popis:	This study charts culturally shaped mobile communication in Chinese society. It finds that Chinese mobile users maintain an open network of contacts comprising not only private relations but work relations and peripheral social ties. Mobile phones are used to define and negotiate in-group membership, maintain social cohesion through mediated rituals, observe relational hierarchies, and preserve social harmony through the use of mobile etiquette defined along spatial, temporal and contextual dimensions. To the extent that mobile phones play into the particularistic, indirect and high-context patterns of Chinese social interaction and relation-oriented cultural norms, the Western mode of “perpetual contact” amongst private relations gives way to a contextualized mobility of diffuse personal ties.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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