Logging in and Getting Off: Login, Labor, Literature, and the Subject of the Net

Baldwin, Sandy

doi:10.1353/sym.2009.0009

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“…To be clear, the embodied experience of intimacy need not involve physical copresence. Although some suggest that emotional connectedness is less possible in contexts involving computer‐mediated communication, for example, (Collins, ; Illouz, ), others argue that intimacy is achievable across time and space, and even through the seemingly alienating medium of the internet (Baker, ; Baldwin, ; Lambert, ). Although intimacy does not require physical copresence, it does involve some kind of emotional, embodied experience of copresence.…”

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A new framing for an old sociology of intimacy

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2017

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The concept of intimacy has long permeated theories of social life, and its use within sociology has produced conceptual confusion rather than coherence. Overlapping with concepts of emotions and communities, intimacy both binds modern life together and offers a respite from its affective "coldness." This paper offers a framework for the concept of intimacy and outlines the dimensions along which to organize future empirical work. Building on sociological, psychological, and queer theoretical approaches, I propose four such dimensions: affect, knowledge, mutual action, and norms. The degree of overlap between these four dimensions suggests a continuum between "strong" and "weak" intimacies. These conceptual refinements enable empirical specification, particularly in the study of close relationships like friendships.

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A new framing for an old sociology of intimacy

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Logging in and Getting Off: Login, Labor, Literature, and the Subject of the Net

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