[ecrea] Out now: “Together While Apart? Mediating Relationships and Intimacy”

**Out now: “Together While Apart? Mediating Relationships and Intimacy”**
Special Issue of Networking Knowledge - Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN

This Special Issue seeks to explore how interpersonal relationships are 
mediated in contemporary contexts by highlighting emotive dimensions of 
mediated communication. By featuring theoretical propositions alongside 
empirical studies on mediations of everyday life, "Together While 
Apart?" highlights how mediated interactions are entangled with 
emotional processes of socialization and practices of connectivity, 
which take place within technical infrastructures that might afford or 
constrain certain practices.
We are proud to present research from a broad variety of cultural 
contexts, dealing with a range of different relationship practices like 
parenting in Britain, backpacking Westerners in South-East-Asia, young 
coupling in Singapore, Trans-experience in the US, performing 
para-social intimacy through Vine, and, not to be missed: the globally 
known <3, which French people apparently dislike.
*Edited by*
Patricia Prieto-Blanco (University of Brighton)
Maria Schreiber (University of Vienna)

Access all Articles here >>> 
http://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/issue/view/togetherWHILEapart

Video Abstracts >>> 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZaTpIQgZrD0pWMkT0BwS6Oe0dPM7nfXb

* Together While Apart? Mediating Relationships and Intimacy. An 
Introduction                                         Patricia 
Prieto-Blanco and Maria Schreiber

     * Algorithmic love: “Quit playin’ games with my <3 ”
Carolina Cambre 
                                                * “It seems like it has 
always been with us!”: Introducing media technology into children’s 
lives and family interpersonal relationships
Ksenia Frolova 

* The smartphone’s role in the contemporary backpacking experience 
Everin Silas, Anders Sundnes Løvlie and Rich Ling 

* Happy #monthsary babe! Vernacular readings and practices of 
monthsaries among young couplings on social media
Crystal Abidin 
                                                         * Mediated 
Storytelling Practices and Productions: Archival Bodies of Affective 
Evidences
Jamie A. Lee

                                         * ‘Let me be your TV’ 
(Phillips 1996, 1)
Elke Rentemeister
Access all Articles here >>> 
http://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/issue/view/togetherWHILEapart
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