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Social Media and Personal Relationships: Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship 2013th Edition
Author(s): D. Chambers (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 21 Feb. 2013
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 227 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230364179
- ISBN-13: 9780230364172
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“There is much to recommend this book in the way it synthesises the research of leading digital scholars and the extent it draws on the theoretical frameworks of Bauman, Beck, Giddens, Goffman and many others to help us understand the effects of digital media on our personal and public lives.” Information, Communication and Society
About the Author
Deborah Chambers is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. Her research areas intersect sociology and media & cultural studies. Her publications include Representing the Family; New Social Ties: Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society; and A Sociology of Family Life: Change and Diversity in Intimate Relations.
