Abstract
Facebook provides various social benefits for my participants. However, it also concerns them by making intimacy problematic. In response they develop novel solutions to these problems. I seek to theorise these problems and solutions through mobilising appropriate conceptual frameworks. Three fields already prevalent in SNS scholarship help in this regard: ‘privacy’, ‘performance’, and ‘social capital’. Each provides a particular way of thinking through these issues. In what follows I tour through literature which explores these frameworks, suggesting points of critical synthesis which will be taken up in the empirical chapters to come.
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© 2013 Alex Lambert
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Lambert, A. (2013). Frameworks: Privacy, Performance, Social Capital. In: Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287144_3
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