Personal Relationships and Intimacy in the Age of Social Media [electronic resource] /
Miguel, Cristina.author.
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.
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Intimacy Frameworks in the Context of Social Media.-Chapter 3 Intimacies of Digital Identity -- Chapter 4 Social Media Platforms as Intimacy Mediators -- Chapter 5 The Political Economy of Networked Intimacy -- Chapter 6 Meeting people online -- Chapter 7 Conclusion: Networked Intimacy.
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.
Social media.
Culture.
Technology.
Communication.
Social Media.
Culture and Technology.
Media and Communication.