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Intimacy among strangers

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Summary, in English

Mobile telephone calls in public places often entail the revelation of intimate details about the caller's life to strangers. This article reports some results of the authors eavesdropping on mobile phone calls in public places and also takes the first step into analysis of the fascinating mix of visibility and inaccessibility, intimacy and alienation that is the mobile telephone call in a public place. The article discusses how this intimacy among strangers may be understood using Goffman´s concepts of impression management, involvement shields and civil inattention.

Publishing year

2001

Language

English

Pages

309-316

Publication/Series

Journal of Mundane Behavior

Volume

2

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Millersville University

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • educational sciences
  • sociologi
  • civil inattention
  • sociology
  • impression management
  • public places
  • mobile phones
  • intimacy
  • utbildningsvetenskap
  • Goffman
  • mobiltelefoni

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1529-3041