Modernity tends to produce ever new experiences of loneliness, which, however, remain abstract, invisible and thus non-negotiable in everyday experience. Television series, on the other hand, find concrete articulations of modern loneliness through their specific aesthetics, narratives, character constellations, dramaturgies, and sounds. Based on an interdisciplinary iconography of modern loneliness, Denis Newiak examines the televisual expressions of social isolation using the popular television series 13 Reasons Why, The Big Bang Theory and Bates Motel. The author Denis Newiak is a media, film and television scholar. He teaches media and communication theory at various universities and conducts research on expressions of loneliness in modern societies, the macrosocial functions of television, and representations of crises and disasters in cinema and TV series. His recent book "The Lonelinesses of Modernity: A Theory of Modernization as an Age of Isolation" examines how processes of modernization have shaped new forms of social isolation and explores their cultural manifestations across contemporary media and academic literature. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.

com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.