Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. INTRODUCTION: Mediatized Intimacy. 7
4. THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON NEW INTIMACIES
5. Of Rationality and Passions 23
6. How Love Relationships begin. Communication Patterns in Change 37
7. Intimacy in How-To Books: The Passion of Self-Change Work 55
8. Intimate Communication on the Internet: How Digital Media are Changing our Lives at the Microlevel 79
9. Let’s Let the Devil Out! How the Public Deals with the Private 93
10. MEDIA OF INTIMACY: PHONES, LETTERS, SONGS
11. Adolescent girls on the phone: The management of dating and social networking 111
12. The Mobile Phone: Bringing the Private into the Public. 151
13. Investigating Love Letters Across Time: Semiotic, Sociolinguistic and Cognitive Problems and Perspectives 165
14. From the Bridal Letter to Online Flirting: Changes in Text Type from the 19th Century to the Internet Era 181
15. Letters Between Home and the Front: Expressions of Love in World War II “Feldpost” Letters 213
16. “Aesthetic Brutality” and “Boundless Candor”: Mediation of Love in the Eighteenth-Century Letter 237
17. Affectionate Titbits: Postcards as a Medium for Love around 1900 253
18. Communicating a Message of Love through Singing 275
19. IMAGINARY AND FICTIONAL INTIMACIES
20. The Medial Persona. Tectonics of the Medial Imaginarium 299
21. Window-Dressing: Fetishistic Transactions in Fictional Prose by Oskar Panizza and Thomas Mann Claudia Lieb 307
22. About the Authors 321