Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook

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

• 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