A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Infrastructures of intimacy
Authors: Susanna Paasonen
Editors: Rikke Andreassen, Michael Nebeling Petersen, Katherine Harrison, Tobias Raun
Publication year: 2018
Book title : Mediated Intimacies: Connectivities, Relationalities and Proximities
First page : 103
Last page: 116
Number of pages: 14
ISBN: 978-1-138-63186-1
eISBN: 978-1-315-20858-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315208589-10
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/26920509
What was two decades ago a special, knowing and ultimately rare added layer of communication in the form of mundane social arrangements made through email, webcam sessions, newsgroup exchanges or internet relay chat (IRC), exchanges in and through networked media have, especially with the ubiquity of social media services and the mobile internet, become elementary components of social communication. Connections are constantly made, maintained and severed in Tinder matches, flirtatious Facebook interactions, sexual Snapchat sessions, Skype conversations, vitriolic Twitter exchanges and confessional WhatsApp messages.
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