TV on Tuesday: How the Internet Enables Intimacy
Amanda Cey | January 26, 2010People have been concerned since the initial creation of social media that it will disconnect us – that the digital world will replace the “real” world and as such, relationships will suffer. Here, Stefana Broadbent argues the opposite. She’s an ethnographer who studies human interaction, and her research shows how communication tecnology is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules. What do you think – do you think the internet enables or prevents intimacy? How has it affected the relationships in your life?
