Mediated intimacies : connectivities, relationalities and proximities / edited by Rikke Andreassen, Michael Nebeling Petersen, Katherine Harrison and Tobias Raun.

"Social media, characterized by user-generated content, interactivity, participation and community formation, have gained much research attention in recent years. At the same time, intimacy, affectivity and emotions are increasingly growing as fields of study. While these two areas are often in...

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Other Authors: Andreassen, Rikke (Editor), Petersen, Michael Nebeling (Editor), Harrison, Katherine (Editor), Raun, Tobias (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Routledge studies in European communication research and education ; 13.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter Introduction: mediated intimacies / MICHAEL NEBELING PETERSEN, KATHERINE HARRISON,
  • part PART I Communities and activism
  • chapter 1 'Something substantive enough to reach out and touch': the intimate politics of digital anti-rape activism / DEBRA FERREDAY
  • chapter 2 Intimate communities: hackerspaces, digital engagement and affective relations / SARAH R. DAVIES
  • chapter 3 Online community and new family scripts / RIKKE ANDREASSEN
  • chapter 4 Textures of intimacy: witnessing embodied mobile loss, affect and heartbreak / LIN PRØITZ
  • chapter 5 Edge effect: new image formations and identity politics / MARCO BOHR
  • part PART II Relationship making and maintenance
  • chapter 6 Innovations in intimacy: internet dating in an international frame / CHRISTINE BEASLEY
  • chapter 7 Infrastructures of intimacy / SUSANNA PAASONEN
  • chapter 8 Temporal ephemerality, persistent affectivity: circulation of intimacies on Snapchat / JETTE KOFOED
  • chapter 9 Beyond engineered intimacy: navigating social media platforms to manage intimate relationships / CRISTINA MIGUEL
  • chapter 10 In with expectations and out with disappointment: gay-tailored social media and the redefinition of intimacy / YIN ZHANG AND JOHN NGUYET ERNI
  • part PART III Integrating and domesticating
  • chapter 11 Mediating intimacies through mobile communication: Chinese migrant mothers' digital 'bridge of magpies' / YANG WANG AND SUN SUN LIM
  • chapter 12 Young children and digital media in the intimacy of the home: perceptions and mediation / RITA BRITO
  • chapter 13 Connecting with the dead: vernacular practices of mourning through photo-sharing on Facebook / TOBIAS RAUN
  • chapter 14 Bleeding boundaries: domesticating gay hook-up apps / KRISTIAN MØLLER AND MICHAEL NEBELING PETERSEN
  • part PART IV Becoming and performing
  • chapter 15 Teen boys on YouTube: representations of gendifer and intimacy CLAIRE BALLEYS
  • chapter 16 Technical intimacies and Otherkin becomings EVA ZEKANY
  • chapter 17 Broadcasting the bedroom: intimate musical practices and collapsing contexts on YouTube MAARTEN MICHIELSE
  • chapter 18 Fashion blogging as a technology of bodily becoming: the fluidity and firmness of digital bodies / LOUISE YUNG NIELSEN
  • chapter 19 'My Friend Bubz': building intimacy as a YouTube beauty guru / FLORENCIA GARCÍA-RAPP.