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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">Dear All, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">Digital Intimacies: interrogating the interface between intimate lives and calculative digital media platforms</span></b><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">University of Queensland (Brisbane), December 12 and 13, 2016</span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black"><a href="https://m.facebook.com/events/508840302646554?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&aref=0&ref=page_internal">https://m.facebook.com/events/508840302646554?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&aref=0&ref=page_internal</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">Please send abstracts to Nicholas Carah at
</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="mailto:n.carah@uq.edu.au"><span style="color:windowtext">n.carah@uq.edu.au</span></a><span style="color:black"> by August 31, 2016.</span></span></i></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">Following last December’s Digital Intimate Publics symposium at UQ we are again hosting a small, single-panel, two day symposium that continues our efforts to navigate the interplay between intimate
lives and the logics of digital media. </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">We are very pleased to announce that Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser (USC Annenberg School of Communication) will join us as a keynote speaker. Professor Banet-Weiser’s work on feminist theory, popular
culture, authenticity, ambivalence and brand culture has set out many of the questions and issues we aim to explore over these two days.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">From ephemeral everyday image play on Snapchat, to hook-up and dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, to the exploration of bodies, affects and identities on Tumblr, to the depiction of domestic life
by Instagram influencers, intimate lives are being performed, recorded, analysed and commodified through the digital.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">Digital media platforms can be understood as engineering projects that seek to calibrate and modulate human capacities driven by the commercial demands of sponsoring brands. They publicise and promote
certain kinds of intimacies and bodies. Young, female, and heteronormative bodies are more likely to be made visible by the commercially-driven technical architecture of digital media. At the same time, these digital spaces are also sites where ‘nondominant’
people and bodies flourish as ‘‘a porous, affective scene of identification among strangers that promises a certain experience of belonging and provides a complex of consolation, confirmation, discipline, and discussion about how to live as an x’ (Berlant
2008, p. viii). </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">In this juxtaposition we encounter the ambivalent nature of intimacy and publicity on digital media: a site of promise and a site for the emergence of new logics of control. Our intimate and everyday
lives are lived in relation to the calculative, algorithmic and promotional logic of digital media systems. Careful attention to the entanglements between lived experience and the media architecture that is a material fact of everyday life is critical in an
era where the sensory and analytic capacities of media are expanding dramatically alongside the living out of our intimate lives.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">Sarah Banet-Weiser (2012) argues that ambivalence is a critically important affect in the interplay between ourselves and commercial media and brand culture. This ambivalence is in part the product
of life lived in a media and cultural formation that thrives on the creative, critical and affective capacities of users.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">With this in mind we are seeking papers that explore the interface between the intimate and the calculative:</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">How do digital media calibrate and commodify the human capacity to affect one another?</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">What kinds of calculations do users make about the algorithmic brokering of visibility and attention by digital media platforms?
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">What possibilities are generated by the ambivalent entanglement between users and the digital?</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">We welcome scholars of digital culture who are engaging with ideas about intimacy, publicity, publics, promotional culture, brands and digital media.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">Convened by Amy Dobson (UQ), Nicholas Carah (UQ), and Brady Robards (UTAS)</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">Timeline: Abstracts of 300 words due August 31, 2016 with notifications of accepted papers sent by September 30.</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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