Social Media and Personal Relationships: Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship

by Deborah Chambers

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230364179
• ISBN13: 9780230364172
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"