Personal Relationships and Intimacy in the Age of Social Media

By Cristina Miguel

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030020614
• ISBN13: 9783030020613
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"