A Good Way to Talk. A Comparative Analysis of Communication Choices in China, Denmark and the US
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A Good Way to Talk. A Comparative Analysis of Communication Choices in China, Denmark and the US. / Pagh, Jesper; Zeng, Fiona Huijie; Lai, Signe Sophus.
In: Information, Communication & Society, Vol. 25, No. 15, 2022, p. 2317-2332.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - A Good Way to Talk.
T2 - A Comparative Analysis of Communication Choices in China, Denmark and the US
AU - Pagh, Jesper
AU - Zeng, Fiona Huijie
AU - Lai, Signe Sophus
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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. The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. doi:10.1086/225469], which is dominated by quantitative approaches. Specifically, the article maps different criteria that people consider when they combine the affordances [Hutchby, 2001. The communicative affordances of technological artefacts. In Conversation and technology, from the telephone to the Internet (pp. 13–33). Polity Press] of various types of communication in their interaction with different social 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 (Lai, S. S., Pagh, J., & Zeng, F. H. (2019). Tracing Communicative Patterns. Nordicom Review, 40(s1). https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-001.). 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 both strong and weak ties.
AB - 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. The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. doi:10.1086/225469], which is dominated by quantitative approaches. Specifically, the article maps different criteria that people consider when they combine the affordances [Hutchby, 2001. The communicative affordances of technological artefacts. In Conversation and technology, from the telephone to the Internet (pp. 13–33). Polity Press] of various types of communication in their interaction with different social 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 (Lai, S. S., Pagh, J., & Zeng, F. H. (2019). Tracing Communicative Patterns. Nordicom Review, 40(s1). https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-001.). 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 both strong and weak ties.
U2 - 10.1080/1369118X.2021.1934067
DO - 10.1080/1369118X.2021.1934067
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 2317
EP - 2332
JO - Information, Communication & Society
JF - Information, Communication & Society
SN - 1369-118X
IS - 15
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