Abstract
The article critically examines how people use media when in romantic relationships. By ‘use’ we mean two things: the use of media discourses and the use of media technologies. The main findings are based on analysis of 42 discursive questionnaires and 14 semi-structured interviews consisting of almost 20 hours of recorded material.
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