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Personal Relationships and Intimacy in the Age of Social Media

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Authors:
  1. Cristina Miguel

    1. Business School, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK

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  • Offers a timely contribution to Internet Studies and the growing field of digital relationships

  • Provides a detailed unpacking of classical and contemporary intimacy scholarship

  • Uses empirical data, combining interviews, participant observation and analysis of user profiles

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Cristina Miguel
    Pages 1-13

  3. Intimacy Frameworks in the Context of Social Media

    • Cristina Miguel
    Pages 15-36

  4. Intimacies of Digital Identity

    • Cristina Miguel
    Pages 37-58

  5. Social Media Platforms as Intimacy Mediators

    • Cristina Miguel
    Pages 59-80

  6. The Political Economy of Networked Intimacy

    • Cristina Miguel
    Pages 81-102

  7. Meeting People Online

    • Cristina Miguel
    Pages 103-123

  8. Conclusions: Networked Intimacy

    • Cristina Miguel
    Pages 125-133
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About this book

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.



Reviews

“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) “This is an important and timely book in which Cristina Miguel produces a sensitive and eloquent assessment of the leading debates surrounding changing intimacy practices online. Underpinned by original empirical material, Miguel produces a compelling analysis to explain the role played by social media platforms within intimate encounters and sustaining personal relationships in digital culture. Throwing new light on the intimate experience of social media users, Personal Relationships and Intimacy in the Age of Social Media makes a major contribution to the field of intimacy studies.” (Prof. Deborah Chambers, Newcastle University, UK)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Business School, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK

    Cristina Miguel

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Dr. Cristina Miguel is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, UK.

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