Tiffany Petricini is an assistant teaching professor of communication studies at Pennsylvania State Shenango in Sharon, PA. Her work focuses on media ecology, phenomenology, and communication ethics.

"This book provides a unique perspective for readers to reexamine friendship in mediated settings. Those interested in the fields of interpersonal communication, mediated communication, communication theory and philosophy, and media ecology will find this book to be a fascinating read." - Miao Hao, International Journal of Communication

• Introduction: Friendship as a Communicative Phenomenon 1 The Phenomenology of Encounter and its Relationship to Friendship 2 Particularity and Voice: Recognizing our Friends as Unique 3 Hermeneutic Presence: Dialogue and Digitization and the Implications for Friendship 4 Time and Space: Altered Dimensions of Friendship 5 Sunaisthesis: The Synecdochal Activity of Friendship Ethics 6 Better People, Better World: Friendship as a Communicative Good

Tiffany Petricini is an assistant teaching professor of communication studies at Pennsylvania State Shenango in Sharon, PA. Her work focuses on media ecology, phenomenology, and communication ethics.

"This book provides a unique perspective for readers to reexamine friendship in mediated settings. Those interested in the fields of interpersonal communication, mediated communication, communication theory and philosophy, and media ecology will find this book to be a fascinating read." - Miao Hao, International Journal of Communication

• Introduction: Friendship as a Communicative Phenomenon 1 The Phenomenology of Encounter and its Relationship to Friendship 2 Particularity and Voice: Recognizing our Friends as Unique 3 Hermeneutic Presence: Dialogue and Digitization and the Implications for Friendship 4 Time and Space: Altered Dimensions of Friendship 5 Sunaisthesis: The Synecdochal Activity of Friendship Ethics 6 Better People, Better World: Friendship as a Communicative Good

Tiffany Petricini is an assistant teaching professor of communication studies at Pennsylvania State Shenango in Sharon, PA. Her work focuses on media ecology, phenomenology, and communication ethics.

"This book provides a unique perspective for readers to reexamine friendship in mediated settings. Those interested in the fields of interpersonal communication, mediated communication, communication theory and philosophy, and media ecology will find this book to be a fascinating read." - Miao Hao, International Journal of Communication

• Introduction: Friendship as a Communicative Phenomenon 1 The Phenomenology of Encounter and its Relationship to Friendship 2 Particularity and Voice: Recognizing our Friends as Unique 3 Hermeneutic Presence: Dialogue and Digitization and the Implications for Friendship 4 Time and Space: Altered Dimensions of Friendship 5 Sunaisthesis: The Synecdochal Activity of Friendship Ethics 6 Better People, Better World: Friendship as a Communicative Good