Revealing intimacy through digital media

Introduction

“…Shifting our gaze to dimensions closer to the everyday experiences of individuals, we can identify further changes that have reconfigured our way of being together in an increasingly connected world. The use of resources that digital media provide creates spaces for self-expression and allows users to make sense of their daily lives and forms of social action (Scarcelli & Mainardi, 2019). Physical and digital spaces, therefore, become part of a continuum (boyd, 2007) in which the distinctions between real and virtual, and between online and offline, lose their most rigid meanings.…”