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Intimacy and friendship on Facebook

Alex Lambert

Abstract

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.

Details | Table of Contents

Introduction Alex Lambert

pp.1-7

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287144_1

Discovering intimacy on Facebook Alex Lambert

pp.8-28

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287144_2

Frameworks

privacy, performance, social capital

Alex Lambert

pp.29-49

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287144_3

Methodology Alex Lambert

pp.50-56

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287144_4

The performance of connection Alex Lambert

pp.57-76

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287144_5

Distant intimacy Alex Lambert

pp.77-94

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287144_6

Prosthetic intimacy Alex Lambert

pp.95-114

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287144_7

When insecurity looms Alex Lambert

pp.115-144

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287144_8

Negotiating intimacy Alex Lambert

pp.145-175

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287144_9

Conclusion Alex Lambert

pp.176-184

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287144_10

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2013

Pages: 201

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-137-32284-5

ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-28714-4

Full citation:

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