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Social Media and Personal Relationships

Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship
By:D. Chambers
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230364172
eText ISBN:9781137314444
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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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.