@book {253,
	title = {Friending: Real relationships in a virtual world},
	year = {2011},
	publisher = {InterVarsity Press},
	organization = {InterVarsity Press},
	address = {Downer Gove, IL},
	abstract = {The notion of friendship is under broad review. A highly mobile and increasingly busy society--rootless, some might argue--means that most of our relationships can{\textquoteright}t depend solely on face-to-face contact to flourish. The increasing prominence of the virtual landscape--where the language of friendship has been co-opted to describe relationships ranging from intimate to meaningless--requires that we become fluent in ever-expanding relational technologies. It{\textquoteright}s never been easy to be a friend, but it seems to be getting tougher by the nanosecond.In Friending, Lynne Baab collects the insights, hopes and regrets of people from across the spectrum of age and life circumstance and syncs them with the wisdom of the Bible. Using Colossians 3 and 1 Corinthians 13 as touchpoints, Lynne shows us how we can celebrate and strengthen our relational ties while continuing to practice the timeless discipline of friending in our time.},
	keywords = {Facebook, Friending, relationships, Virtual},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=GMgoD2xrM5EC\&printsec=frontcover$\#$v=onepage\&q\&f=false},
	author = {Baab, Lynn}
}
@inbook {493,
	title = {Interpersonal Life Online},
	booktitle = {Handbook of New Media},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {35-54},
	publisher = {Sage},
	organization = {Sage},
	address = {London },
	abstract = {Thoroughly revised and updated, this Student Edition of the successful Handbook of New Media has been abridged to showcase the best of the hardback edition. This Handbook sets out boundaries of new media research and scholarship and provides a definitive statement of the current state-of-the-art of the field. Covering major problem areas of research, the Handbook of New Media includes an introductory essay by the editors and a concluding essay by Ron Rice. Each chapter, written by an internationally renowned scholar, provides a review of the most significant social research findings and insights. </p>
},
	keywords = {life, Online, relationships},
	doi = {http://books.google.com/books?id=P9HkFWEwfFUC\&pg=PA35\&lpg=PA35\&dq=Interpersonal+Life+Online+Baym\&source=bl\&ots=RifQDaNx-L\&sig=F5ez-L-gK7kAFUYHezfmnzydiXU\&hl=en\&sa=X\&ei=em_eT8TKBKSI2gWQtMiFAg\&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBg$\#$v=onepage\&q=Interpersonal\%20Life\%20Online\%20Baym},
	url = {http://www.sagepub.com/mcquail6/PDF/062_ch04.pdf},
	author = {Baym, Nancy. K.}
}
@book {395,
	title = {Personal Connections in the Digital Age},
	year = {2010},
	publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.},
	organization = {John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of our selves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. This timely and vibrant book provides frameworks for thinking critically about the roles of digital media in personal relationships. Rather than providing exuberant accounts or cautionary tales, it offers a data-grounded primer on how to make sense of these important changes in relational life. The book identifies the core relational issues these media disturb and shows how the ways we talk about them echo historical discussions about earlier communication technologies. Chapters explore how we use mediated language and nonverbal behavior to develop and maintain communities, social networks, new relationships, and to maintain relationships in our everyday lives. It combines research findings with lively examples to address questions such as whether mediated interaction can be warm and personal, whether people are honest about themselves online, whether relationships that start online can work, and whether using these media damages the other relationships in our lives. Throughout, the book argues for approaching these questions with firm understandings of the qualities ofmedia as well as the social and personal contexts in which they are developed and used. Personal Connections in the Digital Age will be required reading for all students and scholars of media, communication studies, and sociology, as well as all those who want a firmer understanding of digital media and everyday life--Publisher.},
	keywords = {Connection, Digital, relationships},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books/about/Personal_Connections_in_the_Digital_Age.html?id=JRyOQAAACAAJ},
	author = {Baym, N.}
}
