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Mobile Technology in Romantic Communications: Affordances and Practices of (Dis)connection

Student: Nikitina Anastasia

Supervisor: Evgenia Nim

Faculty: Faculty of Creative Industries

Educational Programme: Journalism (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2020

The research presents a new productive insight regarding the issue of mediatization of love and communicative affordances of mobile media. It contributes to to the scholarly conversation about media technology and human intimacy by offering an exploration of mobile media practices of connection and disconnection and affordances that enable those practices. The results of the present research indicate the significant role that mobile media plays in the lives of participants and underscore, how it can change the perception of human intimacy. The methods employed in this study include quantitative survey and in-depth semi-structured interviews.

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