Research Catalog

Title

Communication of love : mediatized intimacy from love letters to SMS : interdisciplinary and historical studies / Eva Lia Wyss (ed.).

Publication

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2014]

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Additional Authors

Wyss, Eva Lia

Description

323 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.

Summary

"By the end of the twentieth century certain new media had established themselves which have profoundly changed communication among lovers. SMS and email in particular have created new relational forms and forms of intimacy. From declarations of love on talk shows to televised dating games and marriage quiz shows, television offers a panoply of wildly popular theatrical communications of love. Does the neglecting of traditional communication media, such as love letters and the telephone, cause the intermingling of intimacy with the public sphere and hence the abrogation of it? From the disciplines of sociology, history, cultural and media studies and linguistics, this book offers answers to this question by analyzing and discussing new media from various perspectives"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Cultural and media studies

Uniform Title

Cultural and media studies.

Alternative Title

Mediatized intimacy from love letters to SMS : interdisciplinary and historical studies

Subject

• Love in mass media
• Interpersonal communication
• Love-letters

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. Mediatized intimacy. Interdisciplinary and historical studies (abstracts) / Eva L. Wyss (Koblenz-Landau) -- Theoretical reflections on new intimacies. Of rationality and passions / Eva Illouz (Jerusalem) -- How love relationships begin. Communication patterns in change / Karl Lenz (Dresden) -- Intimacy in how-to books: the passion of self-change work / Sabine Maasen (München)/Stefanie Duttweiler (Frankfurt a.M.) -- Intimate communication on the Internet: how digital media are changing our lives at the microlevel / Friedrich Krotz (Bremen) -- Let's let the devil out! How the public deals with the private / Manfred Weinberg (Konstanz/Prag) -- Media of intimacy. Phones, letters, songs. Adolescent girls on the phone: the management of dating and social networking / Helga Kotthoff (Freiburg) -- The mobile phone: bringing the private into the public. Empirical notes on the situational arrangement of communicative behaviour / Joachim R. Höflich (Erfurt) -- Investigating love letters across time: semiotic, sociolinguistic and cognitive problems and perspectives / Alexander T. Bergs (Osnabrück) -- From the bridal letter to online flirting: changes in text type from the 19th century to the Internet era / Eva L. Wyss (Koblenz-Landau) -- Letters between home and the front: expressions of love in World War II "feldpost" letters / Clemens Schwender (Berlin) -- "Aesthetic brutality" and "boundless candor": mediation of love in the eighteenth-century letter / Folke-Christine Möller-Sahling (Boston) -- Affectionate titbits: postcards as medium for love around 1900 / Anett Holzheid (Siegen) -- Communicating a message of love through singing / Mahmoud A. Al-Khatib (Irbid) -- Imaginary and fictional intimacies. The media persona. Tectonics of the medial imaginarium / Holger Schulze (Berlin) -- Window-dressing: fetishistic transactions in fictional prose by Oskar Panizza and Thomas Mann / Claudia Lieb (Münster).

ISBN

• 9783837624441 (pbk.)
• 9783839424445 (online) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

897100285

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library