Zizi Papacharissi (editor) - A Networked Self and Love

A NETWORKED SELF AND LOVE

We fall in love every day, with others, with ideas, with ourselves. Stories of love excite us and baffle us. This volume is about love and the networked self. It focuses on how love forms, grows, or dissolves. Chapters address how relationships of love develop, are sustained or broken up through technologies of expression and connection. Authors explore how technologies reproduce, reorganize, or reimagine our dominant rituals of love. Contributors also address what our experiences with love teach us about ourselves, others, and the art of living. Every love story has a beginning and an end. Technology does not give love the kiss of eternity; but it can afford love new meaning.

Zizi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Communication Department and Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and University Scholar at the University of Illinois System. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media. She has published nine books, including Affective Publics, A Private Sphere, A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites (Routledge, 2010) and over 60 journal articles, book chapters and reviews. She is the founding and current editor of the open access journal Social Media and Society .

Each volume in this series develops and pursues a distinct theme focused on the concept of the Networked Self. The five volumes cover the broad range of sociocultural, political, economic, and sociotechnical issues that shape and are shaped by the (networked) self in late modernitywhat we have come to describe as the anthropocene.

A Networked Self: Identity, Community and Culture on Social Network Sites

A Networked Self and Platforms, Stories, Connections

A Networked Self and Love

A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death

A Networked Self and Human Augmentics, Artificial Intelligence, Sentience

Growing upon the initial volume, A Networked Self: Identity, Community and Culture on Social Network Sites , published in 2010, the five volumes will form a picture of the way digital media shape contemporary notions of identity.

Edited by Zizi Papacharissi

First published 2018
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Papacharissi, Zizi, editor.
Title: A networked self and love/edited by Zizi Papacharissi.
Description: New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. | Series: A networked self
Identifiers: LCCN 2017053662 |
ISBN 9781138722538 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138722552 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Online social networks. | Information technologySocial
aspects. | Love. | Interpersonal communication. | Identity (Psychology)
Classification: LCC HM742 .N487 2018 | DDC 302.30285dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017053662

ISBN: 978-1-138-72253-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-72255-2 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-19347-2 (ebk)

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To Si, who showed me love