Social Media and Personal Relationships

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Deborah Chambers

   Pages 1-20

3. Technologically Mediated Personal Relationships

   • Deborah Chambers

   Pages 21-39

4. Conceptualising Intimacy and Friendship

   • Deborah Chambers

   Pages 40-60

5. Self-Presentation Online

   • Deborah Chambers

   Pages 61-81

6. Social Media and Teenage Friendships

   • Deborah Chambers

   Pages 82-101

7. Home, Families and New Media

   • Deborah Chambers

   Pages 102-120

8. Digital Dating and Romance

   • Deborah Chambers

   Pages 121-141

9. Virtual Communities and Online Social Capital

   • Deborah Chambers

   Pages 142-161

10. Mediated Intimacies

    • Deborah Chambers

    Pages 162-174

11. Back Matter

    Pages 175-211

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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.

• capital
• communication
• digital
• Familie
• media
• New Media
• online
• social capital
• social media
• society

"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

• University of Newcastle, UK

  Deborah Chambers

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.