
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2014
Pages: 221-232
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349453108
Full citation:
, "Media love", in: Mediatized worlds, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014


Media love
intimacy in mediatized worlds
pp. 221-232
in: Andreas Hepp, Friedrich Krotz (eds), Mediatized worlds, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Abstract
When we fall in love, we connect to the other person in multiple ways. Many of these connections involve media. We go to the cinema together or we watch television, listen to music or play a computer game; we increasingly have photographs in common; we compare (consciously and unconsciously) our relationship with those we see in literature, film and television; and when we are not together, we use various media technologies to close down the space between us. This use of media allows our connection to intensify, and it is this intensification that in part allows others and ourselves to recognize that we are in love.1 Although we call this Media Love,2 we certainly do not think that media have successfully colonized contemporary practices of romantic love. Many aspects of a romantic relationship do not involve a direct connection with media. Nonetheless, our research shows that contemporary romantic practice has become entangled in, and almost unthinkable without, media. There can be little doubt that people increasingly, and actively, use media as part of the architecture and choreography of a romantic relationship.
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2014
Pages: 221-232
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349453108
Full citation:
, "Media love", in: Mediatized worlds, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014