Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook theorises the impact of Facebook on our social lives through the lens of intimacy. Lambert constructs an original understanding of why people welcome public intimacy on Facebook and how they attempt to control it, asking the reader to re-imagine what it means to be intimate online.
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
