202202

Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2013

201 Pages

ISBN 978-1-137-32284-5

Intimacy and friendship on Facebook

Alex Lambert

Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook theorises the impact of Facebook on our social lives through the lens of intimacy. Lambert constructs an original understanding of why people welcome public intimacy on Facebook and how they attempt to control it, asking the reader to re-imagine what it means to be intimate online.

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Lambert, A. (2013). Intimacy and friendship on Facebook, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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Frameworks

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Methodology

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50-56

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The performance of connection

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57-76

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Distant intimacy

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77-94

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Prosthetic intimacy

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When insecurity looms

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115-144

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Negotiating intimacy

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145-175

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Conclusion

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