Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook [electronic resource] /
Lambert, A.author.
Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook theorises the impact of Facebook on our social lives through the lens of intimacy. Lambert constructs an original understanding of why people welcome public intimacy on Facebook and how they attempt to control it, asking the reader to re-imagine what it means to be intimate online.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Discovering Intimacy on Facebook; Positioning Facebook; Friends and lovers; Intimate disclosures; Public intimacy; 2 Frameworks: Privacy, Performance, Social Capital; Fuzzy privacy; Awareness, concern, and agency; Social privacy; Cyber-Goffman: reconfiguring the 'situation'; Controlling the self and the situation; The mediated self: acting without author; Social capital and the moment of exchange; 3 Methodology; Participants; Ethnographic and Grounded Theory methods; 4 The Performance of Connection
Dialogical focusIdentification through the performance of connection; Social capital in performances of connection; Figurative private spatialisation; 5 Distant Intimacy; Facebook as 'trans-mobile' space; Defeating loss; Mediated publicity and distant intimacy; Occasional identification and the role of triggers; Distance, identity drift, and conflict; 6 Prosthetic Intimacy; Forms of surveillance; Surveillance as tacit routine; Surveillance as indeterminate vision; Self-conscious surveillance; The contradictions of spying; Estranged ties and the prosthetic intimacy; First-hand judgement
7 When Insecurity LoomsHeterogeneous publicity: removing ties from time; Amorphous risk; Possessing the intimate self; The desire not to see; Socio-ontological insecurity; Alienation through connection; Where is the real world?; Audience capture in an economy of attention; 8 Negotiating Intimacy; Organising connection; Rules of identification; Resources of identification; Intimacy capital; Relational capital; Memory capital; Cultural capital; Performance context; Subject form and matter; Media used; Social relationality; Solo performances; Dyadic performances; Group-based performances
Ego-proppingResultant sociality; Remembering; Esteem; Playfulness; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook theorises the impact of Facebook on our social lives through the lens of intimacy. Lambert constructs an original understanding of why people welcome public intimacy on Facebook and how they attempt to control it, asking the reader to re-imagine what it means to be intimate online.
Facebook (Electronic resource)
Communication.
Families.
Families-Social aspects.
Computer science.
Cultural studies.
Social groups.
Family.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Media Studies.
Family.
Popular Computer Science.
Cultural Studies.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Regional and Cultural Studies.