Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxviii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media: Towards Theorising Public Lives on Private Platforms  (Amy Shields Dobson, Nicholas Carah, Brady Robards)....Pages 3-27
 Publicising Privacy, Weaponising Publicity: The Dialectic of Online Abuse on Social Media  (Michael Salter)....Pages 29-43
 Software Intimacies (Social Media and the Unbearability of Death)  (Grant Bollmer)....Pages 45-58
 Snapshots of Afterlife: The Cultural Intimacies of Posthumous Camera Phone Practices  (Larissa Hjorth)....Pages 59-74
 Remembering Through Facebook: Mediated Memory and Intimate Digital Traces  (Brady Robards, Sian Lincoln, Benjamin C. Pinkard, Jane Harris)....Pages 75-91
 Sexting, Intimate and Sexual Media Practices, and Social Justice  (Amy Shields Dobson)....Pages 93-110
Front Matter ....Pages 111-111
 Digital Masculine Disruptions: Intimate Webcam Forums and the Challenge to Heterosexual Normativities  (Rob Cover)....Pages 113-127
 ‘This Dapper Hotty Is Working That Tweed Look’: Extending Workplace Affects on TubeCrush  (Adrienne Evans, Sarah Riley)....Pages 129-144
 Effervescence, Resonance and Emotive Practice on Social Media: Public Expressions of Heartbreak Among Young Filipino Twitter Users  (Jozon A. Lorenzana)....Pages 145-160
 ‘We’re All Gonna Make It Brah’: Homosocial Relations, Vulnerability and Intimacy in an Online Bodybuilding Community  (Mair Underwood)....Pages 161-176
 ‘It’s Nice to See You’re Not the Only One with Kinks’: Presenting Intimate Privates in Intimate Publics on Tumblr  (Matthew Hart)....Pages 177-191
 Between Firefighting and Flaming: Collective and Personal Trans* and Gender-Diverse Social Media  (Son Vivienne)....Pages 193-209
Front Matter ....Pages 211-211
 ‘There Are Literally No Rules When It Comes to These Things’: Ethical Practice and the Use of Dating/Hook-Up Apps  (Paul Byron, Kath Albury)....Pages 213-229
 Speaking to the Other: Digital Intimate Publics and Gamergate  (Amanda Elliot)....Pages 231-245
 Ambivalent Intimacies: Entangled Pains and Gains Through Facebook Use in Transnational Family Life  (Earvin Charles Cabalquinto)....Pages 247-263
 Oversharing Is the Norm  (Jenny Kennedy)....Pages 265-280
 Archives of Sadness: Sharing Bereavement and Generating Emotional Exchange Between Strangers on YouTube  (Margaret Gibson, Golie Talaie)....Pages 281-297
Back Matter ....Pages 299-304