Social Media and Personal Relationships [electronic resource] : Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship /
Chambers, D.author.
This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contributes to dramatic changes in our ideas about personal relationships, through themes of self, youth, families, digital dating and online social capital.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Technologically Mediated Personal Relationships; 3 Conceptualising Intimacy and Friendship; 4 Self-Presentation Online; 5 Social Media and Teenage Friendships; 6 Home, Families and New Media; 7 Digital Dating and Romance; 8 Virtual Communities and Online Social Capital; 9 Mediated Intimacies; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contributes to dramatic changes in our ideas about personal relationships, through themes of self, youth, families, digital dating and online social capital.
Culture.
Sociology.
Families.
Families-Social aspects.
Social groups.
Family.
Communication.
Cultural studies.
Sociology of Culture.
Sociology, general.
Family.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Media Studies.
Cultural Studies.