Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Mobile Communication and Ritual Interaction: The Plumber's Entrance -- 2 ICT and Tension between Social and Individual Impulses -- 3 Durkheim on Ritual Interaction and Social Cohesion -- 4 Goffman on Ritual Interaction in Everyday Life -- 5 Collins and Ritual Interaction Chains -- 6 Ritual as a Catalytic Event -- 7 Co-Present Interaction and Mobile Communication -- 8 Mobile Telephony and Mediated Ritual Interaction -- 9 Bounded Solidarity: Mobile Communication and Cohesion in the Familiar Sphere -- 10 The Recalibration of Social Cohesion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.