Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook

Zusatztext "This is a carefully written and compelling book on a contemporary subject matter. Theoretically rich and highly engaging! Lambert's focus on Facebook as a means to advance/remediate work on intimacy will undoubtedly draw interest from scholars! students and the general public." - Zizi Papacharissi! University of Illinois-Chicago! USA Informationen zum Autor Alex Lambert is a new media researcher and writer based at the University of Melbourne. Klappentext Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook theorises the impact of Facebook on our social lives through the lens of intimacy. Lambert constructs an original understanding of why people welcome public intimacy on Facebook and how they attempt to control it, asking the reader to re-imagine what it means to be intimate online. Zusammenfassung Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook theorises the impact of Facebook on our social lives through the lens of intimacy. Lambert constructs an original understanding of why people welcome public intimacy on Facebook and how they attempt to control it! asking the reader to re-imagine what it means to be intimate online. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Discovering Intimacy on Facebook 3. Frameworks: Privacy, Performance, Social Capacity 4. Methodology 5. The Performance of Connection 6. Distant Intimacy 7. Prosthetic Intimacy 8. When Insecurity Looms 9. Negotiating Intimacy 10. Conclusion

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Discovering Intimacy on Facebook 3. Frameworks: Privacy, Performance, Social Capacity 4. Methodology 5. The Performance of Connection 6. Distant Intimacy 7. Prosthetic Intimacy 8. When Insecurity Looms 9. Negotiating Intimacy 10. Conclusion

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"This is a carefully written and compelling book on a contemporary subject matter. Theoretically rich and highly engaging, Lambert's focus on Facebook as a means to advance/remediate work on intimacy will undoubtedly draw interest from scholars, students and the general public." - Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA

Product details

• Authors: A Lambert, A. Lambert, Alex Lambert, Alexander Lambert, LAMBERT ALEXANDER
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2013
• EAN: 9781137287137
• ISBN: 978-1-137-28713-7
• No. of pages: 201
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Communication, Family, computer science, Social groups, Sociology: family & relationships, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Media and Communication, Regional Studies, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, families, Information technology: general issues, Culture—Study and teaching, Families—Social aspects, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Popular Computer Science, control;Online;performance;privacy;security