Communication of Love : : Mediatized Intimacy from Love Letters to SMS. Interdisciplinary and Historical Studies / / ed. by Eva L. Wyss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Al-Khatib, Mahmoud A.,; Bergs, Alexander T.,; Duttweiler, Stefanie,; Holzheid, Anett,; Höflich, Joachim R.,; Illouz, Eva,; Kotthoff, Helga,; Krotz, Friedrich,; Maasen, Sabine,; Möller-Sahling, Folke-Christine,; SCHULZE, HOLGER,; Schwender, Clemens,; Weinberg, Manfred,; Wyss, Eva L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Wyss, Eva L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur- und Medientheorie
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)

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.Contributions by Eva Illouz, Joachim R. Höflich, Friedrich Krotz, Helga Kotthoff, Karl Lenz, Sabine Maasen, and others.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION: Mediatized Intimacy. -- THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON NEW INTIMACIES -- Of Rationality and Passions -- How Love Relationships begin. Communication Patterns in Change -- Intimacy in How-To Books: The Passion of Self-Change Work -- Intimate Communication on the Internet: How Digital Media are Changing our Lives at the Microlevel -- Let’s Let the Devil Out! How the Public Deals with the Private -- MEDIA OF INTIMACY: PHONES, LETTERS, SONGS -- Adolescent girls on the phone: The management of dating and social networking -- The Mobile Phone: Bringing the Private into the Public. -- Investigating Love Letters Across Time: Semiotic, Sociolinguistic and Cognitive Problems and Perspectives -- From the Bridal Letter to Online Flirting: Changes in Text Type from the 19th Century to the Internet Era -- Letters Between Home and the Front: Expressions of Love in World War II “Feldpost” Letters -- “Aesthetic Brutality” and “Boundless Candor”: Mediation of Love in the Eighteenth-Century Letter -- Affectionate Titbits: Postcards as a Medium for Love around 1900 -- Communicating a Message of Love through Singing -- IMAGINARY AND FICTIONAL INTIMACIES -- The Medial Persona. Tectonics of the Medial Imaginarium -- Window-Dressing: Fetishistic Transactions in Fictional Prose by Oskar Panizza and Thomas Mann Claudia Lieb -- About the Authors