The Book
Personal Connections in the Digital Age is a book written by Nancy Baym about the role of digital media in personal relationships. Although there is no specific answer as to what digital media does to our personal relationships, Nancy explores the many possible outcomes that arise from using digital media, showing both the utopian and dystopian theories of digital media. Baym focuses on the mobile phone and the internet throughout the book when she refers to digital media and the roles they have in personal relationships. Baym doesn't pick a side and argue for that side, but rather shows a variety of perspectives, all of which are relevant, of ways in which digital media affect our personal relationships by using examples, theories, and studies. Although the book is only 155 pages, it is very dense and filled with tons of interesting information about digital media and the roles they play in our lives.
Nancy Baym is a professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas. She teaches a variety of courses about social media, research methods, and interpersonal communication. Nancy has written three books and had contributions to 28 articles since 1993. She received her B.A. in journalism and strategic communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986. She went on to achieving her A.M. in speech communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988. In 1994 she received her Ph.D in speech communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Below is a link to her wikipedia page as well as her website, where you can access her own blog, prior research, and even her twitter account.
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