Review on the monograph Digitization of Love: In Search of the Intimate Other, author Senior Assistant Professor, PhD Niya Neykova

Authors

  • Svetla Koleva Institute of Philosophy and Sociology , Bulgarian Academy of Sciences image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60060/MLg.2025.18.129-133

Keywords:

love, intimate experience, digitalization, generational changes

Abstract

Review of Nia Neykova’s monograph Digitization of Love: In Search of the intimate Other (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Publishing House “Prof. Marin Drinov”, 2025, 231 p., ISBN 978-619-245-516-3; DOI: 10.7546/D.Love.2025).Through an interdisciplinary analysis of the changes in love and intimacy of the digitally socialized generation of young people in Bulgaria, the book opens the scientific debate to the ongoing value, normative, behavioral, identity transformations in contemporary Bulgarian society as part of global processes.

Author Biography

  • Svetla Koleva, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

    Svetla Koleva, D.S.S., is a Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Sociological Problems”. Her research interests include the history of sociology, the epistemology of the social sciences, political sociology, and the sociology of education. She is the author of the monographs Sociology as a Project: Scientific Identity and Social Challenges in Bulgaria, 1945–1989 (2005); Sociology in Bulgaria Through the Eyes of Generations (Interviews with Bulgarian Sociologists) (2012); Knowledge as Value, Cognition as Recognition (2015); and Totalitarian Experience and Knowledge Production: Sociology in Central and Eastern Europe, 1945–1989 (2018).

Published

2025-12-10

Issue

No. 18 (2025): Media and Silence

Section

Book reviews

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