Ginsburg
“… while newly evolving concepts of being disabled emerge in such settings, they also resist articulating a shared identity based on collective coherence of experience, affect or diagnosis” (Ginsburg 2013)
mediated spaces of public intimacy
activism on the internet
Second Life as support group, social movement
Citation from PubMed
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Broadbent
synchronicity/asynchronicity
“the intensification of a small group of highly intimate relationships that have now managed to match the richness of their social connectedness with a richness of multiple communication channels” (Broadbent 2013)
personal nature of mobile communications
“strength of weak ties” – Granovetter; strong ties are maintained through a number of channels, while weak ties may use only one
accretion of communication channels, not replacement by an old one with a new one
