Intimacy among strangers

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Abstract

Mobile telephone calls in public places often entail the revelation of intimate details about the caller's life to strangers. This article reports some results of the authors eavesdropping on mobile phone calls in public places and also takes the first step into analysis of the fascinating mix of visibility and inaccessibility, intimacy and alienation that is the mobile telephone call in a public place. The article discusses how this intimacy among strangers may be understood using Goffman´s concepts of impression management, involvement shields and civil inattention.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)309-316
JournalJournal of Mundane Behavior
Volume2
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 2001

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Free keywords

  • educational sciences
  • sociologi
  • civil inattention
  • sociology
  • impression management
  • public places
  • mobile phones
  • intimacy
  • utbildningsvetenskap
  • Goffman
  • mobiltelefoni

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