Social Media and Personal Relationships : Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)

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.