Santhosh S., Prashanth V.
Interpersonal communication denotes an exchange of information between at least two individuals, carried out in order to coordinate thinking, behavior, or specific action between the communication partners. In Digital Era, Technology Mediated Communication (TMC) is literally altering the process of interpersonal communication and evolving a new way of mediation by which people attempt to understand one another both verbally and nonverbally. It’s very rare to look around and not see people texting, processing their email, or checking their Facebook status using smart phones, laptops, or iPads and in some of the most unusual places. This study is an attempt to analyse the relational closeness and does self-disclosure of new media create gap inrelational closeness, additionally the study tries to explore the space given for interpersonal communication among urban families.
Interpersonal Communication, Digital Era, Relational Closeness, New media