Erving Goffman's work on interaction in everyday life focuses joint spatio-temporal and face-to-face situations denies the constitution of social via mediatized interaction. In contrast, we argue that shared immersive media such as Social Virtual Reality enable intense, delocalized forms co-present interactions constitute closeness intimacy. By discussing Goffman context current works open up h...

Objective: Many theorists agree that intimacy is a multidimensional concept and intimacy attitude components are different from intimate behavior components. This research aimed to determine the components of intimacy attitude in university students. Methods: Based on revised intimacy attitude scale (IAS-R) which was originally developed by Amidon et al. (1983), intimacy attitude components ...

Objectives: Intimacy is a construct that has received limited attention in the Chinese context. This study aimed to validate the Intimacy Scale among older adults in residential care homes in Hong Kong. Method: Seventy-eight Chinese older adults were invited to respond to the Chinese version of the scale and other measurements validating the scale. Results: The scale demonstrated good internal ...

Intimacy usually involves the body. Its dependence on and the difficulties in transcending this are explored by discussing some of the problems those with neurological impairment have in this regard. These impairments are considered in relation to intimacy with one’s own body, with others and with the world. Intimacy is also often expressed through touching, and work on the neural basis for the...

English Abstract: Kenya is a frontier market for ‘financial technology’, or FinTech. This industry – which merges mobile telephony and digital data with commercial lending has grown spectacularly, millions of Kenyans borrowing household, emergency, expenses. industry’s frenzied growth been fuelled by not merely the pursuit profit, but also decidedly more developmental aspiration, namely inclusi...

By examining female streamers’ everyday interactions with their viewers and experiences as showroom livestreamers (xiuchang zhubo) in China’s livestreaming industry, this article adopts—but also re-examines—the premises of relational labour order to investigate the gendered power relations involved sector. Based on semi-structured in-depth interviews livestreamers, we argue that work is conting...

The ability to capture customer needs and to tailor the provided solutions accordingly, also defined as customer intimacy, has become a significant success factor in the B2B space in particular for increasingly "servitizing" businesses. Providers aim at achieving competitive advantages, such as cross-selling and customization by leveraging customer relationships and customer knowledge. However,...