ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|19 pages
Channel Navigation in Interpersonal Communication
Contemporary Practices and Proposed Future Research Directions
chapter 5|24 pages
Connection, Conflict, and Communication Technologies
How Romantic Couples Use the Media for Relationship Management
chapter 8|27 pages
Technologically Enhanced Dating
Augmented Human Relationships, Robots, and Fantasy
chapter 9|17 pages
Mobilizing the Biopolitical Category
Problems, Devices, and Designs in the Construction of the Gay Sexual Marketplace
