Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook [Paperback]

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.1. Introduction 2. Discovering Intimacy on Facebook 3. Frameworks: Privacy, Performance, Social Capacity 4. Methodology 5. The Performance of Connection 6. Distant Intimacy 7. Prosthetic Intimacy 8. When Insecurity Looms 9. Negotiating Intimacy 10. Conclusion

This is a carefully written and compelling book on a contemporary subject matter. Theoretically rich and highly engaging, Lambert's focus on Facebook as a means to advance/remediate work on intimacy will undoubtedly draw interest from scholars, students and the general public. - Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA

Alex Lambert is a new media researcher and writer based at the University of Melbourne.