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On friendship between online equals

William Bülow, Cathrine Felix

pp. 21-34

There is an ongoing debate about the value of virtual friendship. In contrast to previous authorships, this paper argues that virtual friendship can have independent value. It is argued that within an Aristotelian framework, some friendships that are perhaps impossible offline can exist online, i.e., some offline unequals can be online equals and thus form online friendships of independent value.

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DOI: 10.1007/s13347-014-0183-6

Full citation:

Bülow, W. , Felix, C. (2016). On friendship between online equals. Philosophy & Technology 29 (1), pp. 21-34.

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