Personal Relationships and Intimacy in the Age of Social Media
Cristina Miguel, "Personal Relationships and Intimacy in the Age of Social Media"
English | ISBN: 3030020614 | 2018 | 144 pages | EPUB, PDF | 613 KB + 2 MB
English | ISBN: 3030020614 | 2018 | 144 pages | EPUB, PDF | 613 KB + 2 MB
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.