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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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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.
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Business School, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK
Cristina Miguel
About the author
Dr. Cristina Miguel is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Personal Relationships and Intimacy in the Age of Social Media
Authors: Cristina Miguel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02062-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02061-3Published: 20 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02062-0Published: 11 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 133
Topics: Social Media, Culture and Technology, Media and Communication