Communication of Love
Subtitle: Mediatized Intimacy from Love Letters to SMS. Interdisciplinary and Historical Studies
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9783837624441
Subjects: Love; Interpersonal communication; Love-letters
Description: "By the end of the twentieth century certain new media had established themselves which have profoundly changed communication among lovers. SMS and email in particular have created new relational forms and forms of intimacy. From declarations of love on talk shows to televised dating games and marriage quiz shows, television offers a panoply of wildly popular theatrical communications of love. Does the neglecting of traditional communication media, such as love letters and the telephone, cause the intermingling of intimacy with the public sphere and hence the abrogation of it? From the disciplines of sociology, history, cultural and media studies and linguistics, this book offers answers to this question by analyzing and discussing new media from various perspectives"--Provided by publisher.