How the Internet enables intimacy
In her speech “How the Internet enables intimacy”, Stefana Broadbent identifies a new phenomenon in a modern social communications. Nowadays, with progression with modern communications channels such as email, cell phones, social media and instant messages, the communication between the closest friends and relatives penetrates the domains of people’s lives that had previously imposed isolation - schools, hospitals, workplaces, offices and factories. Ms. Broatbent gives this phenomenon a name of “democratization of intimacy”. Technology revolution in communication channels and emergence of mobile phones, smartphones, instant messengers and social media like Facebook, greater penetration of broadband, 3G and 4G ...
