Author : Cristina Miguel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030020620
Personal Relationships and Intimacy in the Age of Social Media by Cristina Miguel Pdf
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.