Archives of Sadness: Sharing Bereavement and Generating Emotional Exchange Between Strangers on YouTube
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Talaei Kamalabad, Golchehreh
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Dobson, Amy Shields
Robards, Brady
Carah, Nicholas
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Focusing on the significant life events of death and grief, YouTube is examined in this chapter as a social media forum in which intimacy is generated between strangers in often fleeting gestures of outreach and kindness. This chapter argues that ‘intimate publics’ constitute a particular shift in the relationship between strangers as anonymity is normatively disentangled from a behavioural code of impersonality. This historically evolving shift in the relationship between strangers is one of the personalised intimacies in modes of address and in the types of subjects/topics publicly exchanged and documented between strangers. Using Mateus’ concept of extimacy (2010), this paper argues that social media sharing prefigures intimacy as extimacy—an orientation towards self-exposure in the outside world of known and unknown others.
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Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media
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Human society