A Networked Self and Love

✍ Scribed by Zizi Papacharissi (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

We fall in love every day, with others, with ideas, with ourselves. Stories of love excite us and baffle us. This volume is about love and the networked self. It focuses on how love forms, grows, or dissolves. Chapters address how relationships of love develop, are sustained or broken up through technologies of expression and connection. Authors explore how technologies reproduce, reorganize, or reimagine our dominant rituals of love. Contributors also address what our experiences with love teach us about ourselves, others, and the art of living. Every love story has a beginning and an end. Technology does not give love the kiss of eternity; but it can afford love new meaning.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Calling the Irrational Unmanageable Neoliberal Self
3 Channel Navigation in Interpersonal Communication: Contemporary Practices and Proposed Future Research Directions
4 Interpersonal Dynamics in Online Dating: Profiles, Matching, and Discovery
5 Connection, Conflict, and Communication Technologies: How Romantic Couples Use the Media for Relationship Management
6 Social Media and Subjective Well-Being: A Relational Perspective
7 Break-Ups and the Limits of Encoding Love
8 Technologically Enhanced Dating: Augmented Human Relationships, Robots, and Fantasy
9 Mobilizing the Biopolitical Category: Problems, Devices, and Designs in the Construction of the Gay Sexual Marketplace
10 "How Angels are Made": Ashley Madison and the Social Bot Affair
11 Disruptive Joy: #BlackOutDay's Affirmative Resonances
12 Am I Why I Can't Have Nice Things? A Reflection on Personal Trauma, Networked Play, and Ethical Sight
13 On Love and Touch: The Radical Haptics of Gestational Surrogacy
14 What's Love Got to Do With It?
Index