[lbo-talk] "Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations, and Sociability: A Time Diary Study"

Eric Beck ersatzdog at gmail.com
Sun Mar 27 10:06:20 PDT 2011


On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:


> That sort of sounds like the stale debate, no?
>
> Is this post asocial? If I spend an hour doing stuff like this, am I really
> not interacting with friends? I'll buy that it's a different form of social
> interaction. But not that it's the defining opposite of social.

Yeah, I like how, as with all these studies, "the Internet" exists outside of sociability and affects but is never actually a part of the social ideal.



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