Michael Rübsamen
Studievägledare
Strangeness of twitter relations
Författare
Summary, in English
Mediated relationships built on distances essentially turns the persons within the relationships into strangers. As relations through distance forms, people who see themselves as friends still maintain a certain notion of strangeness to each other. This Is analyzed through the concept of the stranger as proposed by Georg Simmel. The relationship to the Stranger builds on a combination of distance/proximity, while at the same time seeing both differences and similarities.
This paper investigates and discusses relations in a liquid modernity, where a globalised and mediated world brings the possibility to form friendships over great distances. Drawing on the concept of mediated quasi-interaction and parasocial relationships, this paper challenges and discusses the relationships, and friendships, which forms within a globalised mediated sphere. How can we understand friendships and relations in a world where a not insignificant amount of relations form over distances? Does the distance and the strangeness between people actually mean that something in how we perceive relations and friendships has already changed?
Avdelning/ar
- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
Publiceringsår
2010
Språk
Engelska
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Ämne
- Media and Communications
Conference name
Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media
Conference date
2010-05-17
Conference place
Athens, Greece
Status
Unpublished