Titlebook: Social Media and Personal Relationships; Online Intimacies an Deborah Chambers Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publis

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Virtual Communities and Online Social Capital,f engagement have been viewed both optimistically and pessimistically. On the one hand, online social networks have been described as ‘virtual communities’ to highlight their socially beneficial qualities and as an indicator of renewed ‘community’. The rise of digital media has therefore generated h

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Digital Dating and Romance,nships but also for new ones. As Gershon states, ‘Facebook official’ status ‘has come to stand in for exclusivity’ (Gershon 2010: 83). Many people are uncomfortable about displaying their relationship status, so they leave it blank or, for example among adolescents, they might play jokes (such as selecting in a relationship with’ a friend’s dog).

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Self-Presentation Online,he ways in which sites are used by participants to present the self. It considers the techniques available to users for managing the public display of the personal and to navigate the uncertain and often risky boundaries between ‘personal’ and ‘public’.

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Home, Families and New Media,ttle et al. 2009; Madianou and Miller 2012). Recent research findings have identified some of the beneficial features of new media in fostering and enhancing social and emotional interactions within families, households and personal lives.

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Subjectivism, Material Synthesis and Idealismes, it does not follow that by merely thinking them we have a full grasp of the nature of things in themselves, as some important commentators claim we have. We must therefore distinguish between two kinds of conceiving of things in themselves: conceiving in the standard sense of ‘forming the notion