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Personal Relationships and Intimacy in the Age of Social Media

Cristina Miguel author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:20th Nov '18

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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.

“This book could be useful for those looking at social media relationships both online and offline.” (Rustie Anglin, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 51 (1-2), January-June, 2019)

ISBN: 9783030020613

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 454g

133 pages

1st ed. 2018