Networked individualism - Answers synthesis between the affirmation of an individual centered culture
and the need and desire for sharing and co-experiencing
Social capital - Answers networks, relationships as resources
Emotional energy - Answers the process in which participants develop a mutual focus of attention and
become entrained in each other's bodily micro rhythms and emotions...
Mediatization - Answers use of media transforms interactions
Mediation - Answers interaction is conducted through media, using media changes the interaction
Subjectivity - Answers social reality is perceived by the individual
Intersubjectivity - Answers bridge from one person's subjective experience to another, we share the
world with other human beings
Communication - Answers the fundamental feature of social life
Consociates - Answers directly interact
Contemporaries - Answers share the world
Movable type - Answers key feature (Johannes Huterberg's printing press)
Mechanization - Answers movable type, print media (pamphlets, books, posters, newspapers, journals),
could reach broader audiences
Electrification - Answers telegraph, telephone, radio, film, television, from personal to mass
communication, simultaneous transmission of media across space, large media events
Digitalization - Answers digitalization of media: computer, internet, mobile phone, large platforms that
directly shape social life, increasingly banal space for the conduct of social life
Translocality - Answers linking of disparate places, Localities do not dissolve. As embodied human
beings, we have no choice but to act from a certain locality, even if the resources on which action from
that place relies are themselves distributed.
Temporal regularity - Answers scheduling, sequence, duration, location, rate of recurrence, social
constructed nature of some of these categories, public and private time, time as circular or
linear/progressive
Thick time - Answers shared temporal coordinates, simultaneous media events, working with colleagues
in office, synchronous lectures