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Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,819
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Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook (Hardcover): A. Lambert

Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook (Hardcover)

A. Lambert

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'I'll Facebook you ' We utter these words so casually, yet they signify subtle changes in the nature of intimacy. Facebook has become richly woven through everyday life. It is our default medium for transforming new acquaintances into hopefully more intimate friendships. In a previous age, certain social relationships would 'slip away'; now Facebook allows us to capture them in virtual space. We sustain intimate bonds on the move and over great distances of space and time. Yet, we assemble a collage of different personae, each offering a different kind of intimacy, each a potential danger. Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook theorises the impact of Facebook on our social ties and identities through the lens of intimacy. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, Lambert argues that Facebook is intensifying the social labour needed to sustain and protect interpersonal intimacy, contributing to a state of 'intensive intimacy'. He addresses central questions regarding public intimacy: Does publishing our intimacies enrich our interpersonal lives or is it indicative of a more narcissistic, confessional culture? Facebook demands a novel, dynamic understanding intimacy in a world where the contours of privacy are eroding.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2013
First published: March 2013
Authors: A. Lambert
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-28713-7
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
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LSN: 1-137-28713-6
Barcode: 9781137287137

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