A NETWORKED SELF AND LOVE We fall in love every day, with others, with ideas, with ourselves. Stories of love excite us and baffle us.This volume is about love and the networked self. It focuses on how love forms, grows, or dissolves. Chapters address how relationships of love develop, are sustained or broken up through technologies of expression and connection.Authors explore how technologies reproduce, reorganize, or reimagine our dominant rituals of love. Contributors also address what our experiences with love teach us about ourselves, others, and the art of living. Every love story has a beginning and an end. Technology does not give love the kiss of eternity; but it can afford love new meaning. Zizi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Communication Department at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media. She has collaborated with Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook and has participated in closed consultations with the Obama 2012 election campaign. She sits on the Committee on the Health and Well-Being of Young Adults, funded by the National Academies of Science, the National Research Council, and the Institute of Medicine, and has been invited to lecture about her work on social media in several universities and research institutes in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the United States. 15034-0425d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd i 15034-0425d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd i 3/12/2018 5:22:01 PM 3/12/2018 5:22:01 PM