ABSTRACT
To summarize, the individual focus of communication technology use embodied in the changing experience of network and mobile sociality, which form the structural backdrop to personal communities, does not necessarily carry with it the dissolution of integrative social forms. Instead, they can crystallize in new ways of managing personal interactions that are experienced as a contemporary foundation of social cohesion. However, before capturing the technological aspect of these evolving social practices it is necessary to recognize that mediated forms of personal relationships coexist with those that are constituted in unmediated forms. Failure to acknowledge this intersection or coexistence limits the possibilities of a comprehensive analysis of the social cohesiveness that bonds the contemporary techno-mediated community together.
