Book | Chapter
Frameworks
privacy, performance, social capital
pp. 29-49
Abstract
Facebook provides various social benefits for my participants. However, it also concerns them by making intimacy problematic. In response they develop novel solutions to these problems. I seek to theorise these problems and solutions through mobilising appropriate conceptual frameworks. Three fields already prevalent in SNS scholarship help in this regard: "privacy", "performance", and 'social capital". Each provides a particular way of thinking through these issues. In what follows I tour through literature which explores these frameworks, suggesting points of critical synthesis which will be taken up in the empirical chapters to come.
Publication details
Published in:
Lambert Alex (2013) Intimacy and friendship on Facebook. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 29-49
Full citation:
Lambert Alex (2013) Frameworks: privacy, performance, social capital, In: Intimacy and friendship on Facebook, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 29–49.