ABSTRACT
The people of the Sands and the Yacht Club see each other in the street and socialize in each other’s private spaces-they communicate in person and electronically. Goffman (1969: 140) says of communication systems that they consist of “the channels, relays, nets, transmitters, receivers, signals, codes, schedules. . . . by which, in a given organizational setting, the regular flow of explicitly formulated information is maintained.” Twenty-first-century organizations communicate everything from regulations to special events by mail, fax, phones, websites, and Facebook.
