Social networks are ubiquitous in the lives of adolescents. This work systematically reviewed
all studies which investigated the relationship between subjective well-being and the social�…

One of the most striking changes in personal life during late modernity is the use of social
media for conducting personal relationships. These changes entail a growing significance in�…

Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time,
certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second�…

A recurrent theme in the literature on transnational mobility–and particularly that pertaining
to the young and/or highly skilled–is the individualised nature of such movement, as people�…

The Internet provides new opportunities for accessing and giving support following perinatal
loss and in this article we report on a project concerned to explore the use of social�…

Presenting qualitative and quantitative findings on the lived experiences of around seven
hundred young adults from Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and mixed-faith�…

This article asks whether a crisis of intimacy exists in the digital era to provoke an enquiry
into the extent to which social media are transforming or transformed by personal�…

In this paper we explore some of the negative aspects of friendship. In so doing we do not
seek to join the debate about whether or not friendships are more or less important than�…

Postfeminism in Context studies the representation of women in Australian popular culture
over the past three decades to locate postfeminism in a specific time and place. Margaret�…

Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marx's theory of
alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book develops an anti-methodological�…