A Good Way to Talk. A Comparative Analysis of Communication Choices in China, Denmark and the US

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The article presents a comparative analysis of how people manage ways of communicating with their social ties. It thereby makes a qualitative contribution to the social ties literature (Granovetter, 1973), which is dominated by quantitative approaches. Specifically, the article maps different criteria that people consider when they combine the affordances (Hutchby 2001) of various types of communication in their interaction with different ties. The qualitative analysis is based on ethnographic fieldwork in China, Denmark and the US, adopting and adapting a shared interview-diary-interview method in each field site (authors, 2019) Despite apparent sociocultural and infrastructural differences between the national contexts, we find that people, guided by universal aspects of sociality, share five criteria, namely efficiency, sensibility, ephemerality, insistency, and availability, that ground their everyday communications with strong and weak ties.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftInformation, Communication & Society
Vol/bind25
Udgave nummer15
Sider (fra-til)2317-2332
ISSN1369-118X
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022

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