Digital Intimacies 4, 2018 Conference Schedule
Conference hashtag: #digint18
Wednesday, Dec 5th
9.00: Welcome.
9.15-10.30 Keynote: Jessica Ringrose
#INeedFeminism and Queering Instagram: Exploring the Affective Counter Publics, Trans-Platform Vernaculars and Posthuman Pedagogies of Youth Digital Gender Activisms
10.30-11.00 Morning Tea
11.00-12.40: Session 1, Care, support, distress.
[Chair: Son Vivienne.]
Paul Byron: Who cares? Everyday intimacies and digital support
Dominic Yeo: Silent cries for help in Facebook: Examining the intimate voices of troubled youths through their anonymous distress communication on social media
Amy Dobson: Reading Public(s of) love and care?(Over)sharing, (non)agency, and queer(er) world building on social media
Ingrid Richardson & Larissa Hjorth: Digitally Mediated Intimacies, Companion Animals, and Careful Surveillance
12.40-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.10: Session 2: Datafied Bodies.
[Chair: Shaka McGlotten]
Belinda Middleweek: ‘Intimate Others’ and ‘seamful’ engagements: An ethnographic study of sex robot enthusiasts in The Doll Forum
Misha Kavka: The Intimate Syntaesthesia of Mukbang
Brady Robards and Ben Lyall: Confessional data selfies and intimate digital traces
Son Vivienne: Code-switching genders in practice and theory
3.10-3.40 Break
3.40-5.00 Session 3: Gender Performativity and Porousness.
[Chair: Amy Dobson]
David Myles, Jean Burgess, Martin Blais: Gay Dating App Reviews and Their Potential for Understanding Sexuality & Gender Performance Online
David Farrugia: Masculinity, Homosocial Camaraderie and Value Creation on the Digital Gaming Platform Twitch
Madison Magladry: Fitspiration or Fitsploitation? Postfeminism, Digital Media and Authenticity in Women’s Fitness Culture
5.00 (-7.30ish): Welcome Drinks, The Creative Quarter
Thurs Dec 6th
9.30-10.30 Keynote: Shaka McGlotten
"Streaking"
10.30-11.00 Morning Tea
11.00-12.40: Session 4, Platformed Intimacy & Influence(rs).
[Chair: David Farrugia]
Tama Leaver: Virtual Influencers and Real Connections
Indigo Holcombe-James: It ‘folds up space’: cultural platforms and practices of intimate connectivity on Instagram
Emily van der Nagel: Sunset posts and the intimate strategies of platforms
Crystal Abidin: Squishy babies, Soft dads, and Exploding ovaries: Brand biographies and ‘fan mothering’ practices around celebrity babies
12.40-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.10: Session 5, Morality and Spirituality.
[Chair: Tama Leaver]
Duc Dau: Texts, Paratexts, and Digital Christian Spaces of Intimacy
Matthew Wade: Platform Advocacy for Life Itself: Intimate narratives of moral worthiness in crisis crowdfunding, and some implications of commodifying ‘virtue’ in times of suffering
Earvin Cabalquinbto: “Visa is expensive but if it’s the love of your life then it’s worth it, right?”
Elaine Xu: Networked Intimacy in Online Illness Narratives and Charitable Fundraising
3.10-3.40 Break
3.40-5.00: Session 6. Relational Connections and disconnections. |
[Chair: Jessica Ringrose]
Katie Ellis: #hotinawheelchair: reclaiming the stare
Kyra Clarke: Messaging, Flirting? Exploring digital representations of intimacy in teen film
Josie Reade: Keeping it raw on the ‘gram: Intimacy beyond the highlight reel
5.00 (-7.30ish): Book Launches—Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media (launched by Jessica Ringrose) and Going Postal: More than ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ (launched by Baden Offord), Creative Quarter.
Friday Dec 7th
10.00-11.40 Session 7. Digital childhoods and youth.
[Chair: Brady Robards]
Donell Holloway: Digitally embodied interactive play: Social robots and children
T.J. Thomson: Instagram and AU Youth Privacy
Kate Mannell: ‘We called the group #cookie’: Mobile group chats as ritual interaction among young adults
[?] Alice-Maree Raitt: Sponsorship & YouTube; How Intimacy is affected when Microcelebrities make sponsored content.
Nawaz Kochra and Mathew Martin: Communication of Digital Intimacies and Entertainment in the Usage of Dating Applications in Mobile Phones
11.40-12.00 Wrap Up/ Close
12.00 - 1.00 Lunch
1.00 - 5.00 Meetings rooms available for group discussions, planning, writing, etc. [Ideas/plans for these will be discussed on day 1 of the conference.]
(Papers: 25 mins = 15-20 mins presentation + 5-10 minutes discussion.)
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