Personal relationships and intimacy in the age of social media /
[Book]
Cristina Miguel.
Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
1 online resource (xi, 133 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Intimacy frameworks int he context of social media -- Intimacies of digital identity -- Social media platforms as intimacy mediators -- The political economy of networked intimacy -- Meeting people online -- Conclusions : networked intimacy.
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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.
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Personal relationships and intimacy in the age of social media.