Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook

Lambert, Alexander Townshend

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“…They contribute to what Lambert [44] characterises as 'a kind of gregarious group intimacy'. More and more frequently, this kind of extended domestic intimacy takes place in online environments.…”

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“…As researchers in cultural studies and internet studies focusing on the intersections of place, space, emotion and digital technologies have recently argued, digital media can provide a space in which people can exchange personal details, thoughts and feelings, become friends and develop feelings of intimacy: in some cases, without ever meeting face-to-face [43][44][45]. The focus groups revealed that the intimacy of friendship with other women based on shared experiences of mothering is important to many women, helping to shape mothers' sense of self as highly relational to other mothers and as members of a community of mothers, extending domestic life beyond the space of the home [46].…”

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‘It Just Gives Me a Bit of Peace of Mind’: Australian Women’s Use of Digital Media for Pregnancy and Early Motherhood

Lupton

2017

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A diverse range of digital devices and software are available to women to seek and share information and personal experiences about pregnancy and parenting. This article reports findings from a focus group study involving Australian women who were pregnant or had very young children. The participants were asked to recount their experiences of using digital media for pregnancy and parenting and what media they would like to see developed that were not yet available. The findings revealed that digital media were very important to the participants. They were using mobile apps, social media, content-sharing platforms and online discussion forums to connect with each other and with family members, post images and other information about their pregnancy and children, track their pregnancy or their children's behaviours and development, and learn about pregnancy, infants and childcare. Despite their frequent use of and reliance on digital media, few participants had begun to consider the implications of sharing personal information about themselves or their children online or by using apps to record details. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to the complexities of the intersections between information, emotional support, intimacy, personal data generation, sharing and privacy as they are conducted and experienced on the digital media used by women during these life stages.

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‘It Just Gives Me a Bit of Peace of Mind’: Australian Women’s Use of Digital Media for Pregnancy and Early Motherhood

Lupton

2017

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“…Through a brief descriptive outline drawn from commercial and popular examples, we then show how various digital resources are being used to create different forms of posthumous personhood. Finally, in our discussion, we situate these forms of digital posthumous personhood in relation to a wider discursive politics of social media (Lambert, 2013;Light, 2014;Light & Cassidy, 2014), which we suggest directly supports the maintenance of ongoing interactions with the dead online.…”

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“…Services like Deadsoci.al may be unable to support contextual and ongoing practices of intimacy and reciprocity that define a contemporary family or friendship (Lambert, 2013). However, these messages delivered from beyond the grave will retain some agency and be able to call upon a particular form of posthumous personhood.…”

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Posthumous personhood and the affordances of digital media

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“…Gross and Acquisti (2005) argue that online social networks breed a new kind of intimacy, in which users regularly share personal information widely and with many people. Lambert (2013) calls this new kind of intimacy "group intimacy," and suggests that it is replacing traditional notions of intimacy -which are more interpersonal in nature. Geser (2008) goes as far as saying that intimacy is completely destroyed in online settings, because users are discouraged from revealing information privately and selectively to their various contacts.…”

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Strangers You May Know: Social Surveillance and Intimacy Online

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Watts²

iConference 2016 Proceedings

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Online social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn regularly use People You May Know (PYMK) algorithms to encourage connectivity among their users. We argue that these algorithms have the unintended effect of making users' interactions more visible, which can deter them from being intimate online. To test this theory, we analyze data from a large online social network that lets users buy and exchange electronic greeting cards (eCards) with each other over the network. We find that users are more likely to buy eCards when they have more connections, but less likely to buy them when they have formed connections to friends of friends. We attribute the latter effect to the increased visibility that comes with connecting to friends of friends, which PYMK algorithms encourage. We find no effect of users' friends connecting to each other, suggesting that the PYMK effect has to do with promoting surveillance by relative strangers rather than with increasing network density more broadly.

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Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook

Cited by 55 publications

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‘It Just Gives Me a Bit of Peace of Mind’: Australian Women’s Use of Digital Media for Pregnancy and Early Motherhood

‘It Just Gives Me a Bit of Peace of Mind’: Australian Women’s Use of Digital Media for Pregnancy and Early Motherhood

Posthumous personhood and the affordances of digital media

Strangers You May Know: Social Surveillance and Intimacy Online

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