Download or read book New Social Ties written by Deborah Chambers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deborah Chambers draws on the metaphor of friendship as a strategy for exploring contemporary changes in informal social ties. She traces the shift from fixed and permanent ties of family, neighbourhood and community to fluid and transient ties typified by computer mediated communication.