Personal Relationships and Intimacy in the Age of Social Media

✍ Scribed by Cristina Miguel

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing,Palgrave Pivot
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 140
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines how intimate relationships are built, negotiated and maintained through social media. The study takes a cross-platform approach, analysing three social media platforms of different genres – Badoo, Couchsurfing and Facebook – and exploring two interactive forces that shape the way people communicate through social media: the platforms’ architecture and policies, and actual practises of use. Combining analysis of the political economy of social media with users’ perspectives of their own practises – as well as exploring the tensions between the two – the book provides a detailed picture of intimacy as a complex structure of continuity and change.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Introduction (Cristina Miguel)....Pages 1-13
Intimacy Frameworks in the Context of Social Media (Cristina Miguel)....Pages 15-36
Intimacies of Digital Identity (Cristina Miguel)....Pages 37-58
Social Media Platforms as Intimacy Mediators (Cristina Miguel)....Pages 59-80
The Political Economy of Networked Intimacy (Cristina Miguel)....Pages 81-102
Meeting People Online (Cristina Miguel)....Pages 103-123
Conclusions: Networked Intimacy (Cristina Miguel)....Pages 125-133

✦ Subjects

Cultural and Media Studies; Social Media; Culture and Technology; Media and Communication