| Description |
vii, 201 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Forms of surveillance -- Surveillance as tacit routine -- Surveillance as indeterminate vision -- Self-conscious surveillance -- The contradictions of spying -- Estranged ties and the prosthetic intimacy -- First-hand Judgement -- 7.When Insecurity Looms -- Heterogeneous publicity: removing ties from time -- Amorphous risk -- Possessing the intimate self -- The desire not to see -- So cio-ontological insecurity -- Alienation through connection -- Where is the real world? -- Audience capture in an economy of attention -- 8.Negotiating Intimacy -- Organising connection -- Rules of identification -- Resources of identification -- Intimacy capital -- Relational capital -- Memory capital -- Cultural capital -- Performance context -- Subject form and matter -- Media used -- Social relationality -- Solo performances -- Dyadic performances -- Group-based performances -- Ego-propping -- Resultant sociality -- Remembering -- Esteem -- Playfulness |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Discovering Intimacy on Facebook -- Positioning Facebook -- Friends and lovers -- Intimate disclosures -- Public intimacy -- 2.Frameworks: Privacy, Performance, Social Capital -- Fuzzy privacy -- Awareness, concern, and agency -- Social privacy -- Cyber-Goffman: reconfiguring the sìtuation' -- Controlling the self and the situation -- The mediated self: acting without author -- Social capital and the moment of exchange -- 3.Methodology -- Participants -- Ethnographic and Grounded Theory methods -- 4.The Performance of Connection -- Dialogical focus -- Identification through the performance of connection -- Social capital in performances of connection -- Figurative private spatialisation -- 5.Distant Intimacy -- Facebook as t̀rans-mobile' space -- Defeating loss -- Mediated publicity and distant intimacy -- Occasional identification and the role of triggers -- Distance, identity drift, and conflict -- 6.Prosthetic Intimacy -- |
| Summary |
'I'll Facebook you!' We utter these words so casually, yet they signify subtle changes in the nature of intimacy. Facebook has become richly woven through everyday life. It is our default medium for transforming new acquaintances into hopefully more intimate friendships. In a previous age, certain social relationships would 'slip away'; now Facebook allows us to capture them in virtual space. We sustain intimate bonds on the move and over great distances of space and time. Yet, we assemble a collage of different personae, each offering a different kind of intimacy, each a potential danger. Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook theorises the impact of Facebook on our social ties and identities through the lens of intimacy. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, Lambert argues that Facebook is intensifying the social labour needed to sustain and protect interpersonal intimacy, contributing to a state of 'intensive intimacy'. He addresses central questions regarding public intimacy: Does publishing our intimacies enrich our interpersonal lives or is it indicative of a more narcissistic, confessional culture? Facebook demands a novel, dynamic understanding intimacy in a world where the contours of privacy are eroding. (Amazon website) |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| SUBJECT |
Facebook (Electronic resource) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007076967
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| Subject |
Friendship.
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Interpersonal relations.
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Intimacy (Psychology)
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Online social networks -- Psychological aspects.
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Online social networks.
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| LC no. |
2013013234 |
| ISBN |
9781137287137 (hbk.) |
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9781137322845 (paperback) |
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