Imagining We in the Age of I

<p><strong>Winner MeCCSA Edited Collection of the Year</strong><strong> MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards 2022</strong></p><p>In the early twenty-first century shifts in gender and sexuality work and mobility patterns and especially technology have provoked interest in perceived threats to social bonding on a global scale. This edited collection explores the fracturing of couple culture but also its persistence.</p><p>Looking at a variety of media sites—including film television popular print fiction new media and new technologies—this volume’s diverse range of contributors examine how mediated scenes of intimacy proliferate while real-life experiences are cast in a newly uncertain light. The collection thus challenges a latent but growing tendency towards perceptions of romantic decline in a variety of cultural contexts and with attention to the impact of COVID-19. </p><p>This is an accessible and timely collection suitable for scholars in gender studies media cultural studies and communication studies.</p>