Social Media and Personal Relationships

Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-230-36417-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 3796 g

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contributes to dramatic changes in our ideas about personal relationships, through themes of self, youth, families, digital dating and online social capital.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chambers, D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Technologically Mediated Personal Relationships 3. Conceptualising Intimacy and Friendship 4. Self Preservation Online 5. Social Media and Teenage Friendships 6. Home, Families and New Media 7. Digital Dating and Romance 8. Virtual Communities and Online Social Capital 9. Mediated Intimacies

Über Autor(innen)

Deborah Chambers is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. Her research areas intersect sociology and media & cultural studies. Her publications include Representing the Family; New Social Ties: Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society; and A Sociology of Family Life: Change and Diversity in Intimate Relations.