Open AccessUp Close and Personal, But Not Close Enough: Review of Samantha Holland (ed.), Remote Relationships in a Small World
Author(s) -
Sarah Cefai
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
cultural studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1837-8692
pISSN - 1446-8123
DOI - 10.5130/csr.v16i1.1458
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , sociology , project commissioning , resource (disambiguation) , empiricism , publishing , media studies , empirical research , library science , epistemology , social science , computer science , art , philosophy , literature , computer network , mathematics , pure mathematics
One
of
the
central
aims
of
this
book
is
to
establish
life
online
as
a
legitimate
and
sociologically
significant
area
of
study.
To
this
end
the
book
provides
a
genuinely
wide
range
of
original
essays,
each
of
which
focuses
on
a
discretely
defined
empirical
site.
The
collection’s
empiricism
is
impressively
buttressed
by
well‐located
literature
reviews and
the
provision
of
detailed
notes
on
methodology. This
makes
for
an
excellent
teaching
resource,
as
an
introduction
to
the
field
and
a
‘how
to’ guide
for
those
unfamiliar
with
the passages
of
qualitative
research.
It
is
also
a
useful
research
tool
for
those
wanting
to
survey
the
field
and
access
an
up‐to‐date
bibliography