Communication of Love

Mediatized Intimacy from Love Letters to SMS. Interdisciplinary and Historical Studies

Eva Wyss author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transcript Verlag

Published:27th Nov '14

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Communication of Love cover

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. Contributions by Eva Illouz, Joachim R. Höflich, Friedrich Krotz, Helga Kotthoff, Karl Lenz, Sabine Maasen, and others.

Besprochen in: tv diskurs, 74 (2015), Lothar Mikos

ISBN: 9783837624441

Dimensions: 23mm x 15mm x 2mm

Weight: 539g

326 pages