Hi all, I'm very pleased to announce that my first book "Personal relationships and intimacy in the age of social media" is out today!! https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030020613#aboutBook The back cover summary: The book examines how intimate relationships are built, negotiated and maintained through social media. The study takes a cross-platform approach, analysing three social media platforms of different genres - Badoo, CouchSurfing and Facebook - and exploring two interactive forces that shape the way people communicate through social media: the platforms architecture and policies, and actual practises of use. Combining analysis of the political economy of social media with users perspectives of their own practises - as well as exploring the tensions between the two - the book provides a detailed picture of intimacy as a complex structure of continuity and change. This is an important and timely book in which Cristina Miguel produces a sensitive and eloquent assessment of the leading debates surrounding changing intimacy practices online. Underpinned by original empirical material, Miguel produces a compelling analysis to explain the role played by social media platforms within intimate encounters and sustaining personal relationships in digital culture. Throwing new light on the intimate experience of social media users, Personal Relationships and Intimacy in the Age of Social Media makes a major contribution to the field of intimacy studies. -Deborah Chambers, Newcastle University, UK And a 20% discount code for the month of December: PM18TWENTY4? Best wishes, Dr. Cristina Miguel Senior Lecturer Leeds Business School Leeds Beckett University, RB465 , City Campus, Leeds LS1 3HE Email: C.Miguel@leedsbeckett.ac.uk Tel: 0113 81 25766 To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to:- http://disclaimer.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/disclaimer/disclaimer.html