| New and emerging modes of mobile phone communication building on voice and text such as photographs, email, internet, social networks and geo-tagging are emphasising the increasing complexity, combinations of communication and issues of mode selection within extended conversations. Such choice and selection appears to be related to both emotional and situational context and be part of a much larger identity and relationship ‘play’. This in turns begs the question whether the significance of these activities goes beyond individual items of communication to the ‘core’ of relationships, bonds or ties and may be better described as something ‘beyond’ communication- in this paper the author suggests and defines the term ‘Mo-Bonding’ as being a useful descriptor of this phenomena. |