Personal relationships and intimacy in the age of social media / Cristina Miguel.

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Personal relationships and intimacy in the age of social media / Cristina Miguel.

9783030020620 (electronic book)
3030020622 (electronic book)
3030020614
9783030020613

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

English

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HM742 .M54 2018

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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