[Air-l] Friendship/Kinship Articles

[Mary L. Gray]

Denise, I'm not sure if there's a book out yet, but Lori Kendall (at SUNY
Purchase and likely on the AIR list) did fantastic work on friendship and
masculinity in online environments.

I don't know the precise cite, but it's something like, "hanging out in the
virtual pub"

best,
mary
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Mary L. Gray <mlgray at ucsd.edu>
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
vox:    502/451.5003
mail:   PO Box 4004, Louisville, KY 40204
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~mgray
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> From: <denisecarter at denisecarter.net>
> Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:57:08 +0100
> To: <air-l at aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-l] Friendship/Kinship Articles
> 
> Does anyone know of any articles on friendship particularly (or kinship also).
> I am 'doing ethnography' in an online community (from a Social Anthropological
> viewpoint) and my data is driving me to
> look at friendship as perhaps a more flexible bond than kinship. In some
> cases friendship seems to be the precursor to the adoption of familial
> roles' as in ..."she's my cybermom". Strong friendship ties appear to be a
> major part of the social relations that are being negotiated in this
> particular online community. I didn't want to lose myself in trawling
> through all the kinship literature.
> 
> 
> thanks a lot
> Denise
> 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mary L. Gray <mlgray at ucsd.edu>
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
vox:    502/451.5003
mail:   PO Box 4004, Louisville, KY 40204
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~mgray
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


> From: <denisecarter at denisecarter.net>
> Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:57:08 +0100
> To: <air-l at aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-l] Friendship/Kinship Articles
> 
> Does anyone know of any articles on friendship particularly (or kinship also).
> I am 'doing ethnography' in an online community (from a Social Anthropological
> viewpoint) and my data is driving me to
> look at friendship as perhaps a more flexible bond than kinship. In some
> cases friendship seems to be the precursor to the adoption of familial
> roles' as in ..."she's my cybermom". Strong friendship ties appear to be a
> major part of the social relations that are being negotiated in this
> particular online community. I didn't want to lose myself in trawling
> through all the kinship literature.
> 
> 
> thanks a lot
> Denise
>