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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Dear Colleagues,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">We are very pleased to announce that Associate Professor
<a href="https://www.purchase.edu/live/profiles/460-shaka-mcglotten" id="LPlnk173636">
Shaka McGlotten</a> will be joining us as a keynote for Digital Intimacies 4, along with Professor
<a href="https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=JLRIN58" id="LPlnk611511">
Jessica Ringrose.</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Abstracts are due June 30; see details below, and we hope to see you there!</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">All best wishes,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Amy Dobson and Tama Leaver</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Digital Intimacies 4: Porousness & Permutations</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">December 5, 6 & 7, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Digital Intimacies is now in its fourth year and continues to bring scholars of digital culture together from across Australia
and beyond, across disciplines including media and communication, cultural studies, sociology, and gender studies. This year’s symposium is convened by Amy Dobson and Tama Leaver, and is hosted by Curtin University’s Centre for Culture and Technology and the
discipline of Internet Studies in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">As social media open up intimate lives and practices to public and semi-public gazes, we are in the midst of important
cultural contestations over the meaning of intimacy. How intimacy plays out in, and in relation to, the digital has become a prominent concern in scholarship of digital cultures, as well as in broader public debate. Intimacy is generally understood as to
do with the ‘personal’ and with ‘closeness’ — as describing feelings or relationships that are most ‘inward to one’s personhood’ (McGlotten, 2013). But, as much queer and social theory tells us, intimacy is also socially and culturally constructed and sanctioned,
defined by institutions, laws, and social and cultural norms and practices. Norms around various kinds of intimacies and intimate practices involving media increasingly play out online, and via social media platforms. Digital platforms are structured by a
‘like’ economy (Gerlitz and Helmond, 2013), by drives towards the quantification of self (Lupton, 2016), and algorithms, as well as algorithmic ‘imaginaries’ (Bucher, 2018; Carah and Angus 2018). Digital intimacy has been described in this context as a new
kind of social capital (Lambert, 2016), as well as new media ‘genre’ (Raun, 2018). Practices of certain kinds of intimacies via the digital are increasingly seen as vital to ‘successful’ and economically productive use of social media, especially for cultural
intermediaries and ‘internet celebrities’ (Abidin, 2018). Simultaneously, many forms of intimacy and communication are being encoded, aggregated, analysed and commercialized as forms of big data, provoking difficult and unsettling questions about new forms
of surveillance, influence, and control, as well as distinct lack of transparency around new practices and forms of governance, made publicly visible around recent Cambridge Analytica scandals (Andrejevic, 2013; Leaver, 2017). </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">We are calling for paper abstracts on the themes of digital media, digital cultures, and intimacy, with particular interest
in porousness and permutations of every kind; that is, papers that map the flow between boundaries – shifts and permeations of practice and understanding towards new forms, new configurations, and the unsettling existing norms in unexpected and as yet unnamed
ways.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Within these broadly understood boundaries of digital culture(s) and digital intimacies we invite particular exploration
of:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">* how existing structures, boundaries and norms of intimacy are constituted, reconstituted and made porous in terms of
identities, practices and platforms;</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">* how practices of intimacy via the digital can be challenged, changed and new permutations emerge in terms of the social,
cultural, and political; </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">* how ‘digital disruption’ (of various sorts) shapes, configures, constitutes and impacts intimacy of every kind.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">The single stream symposium will formally run for two days, December 5 and 6. Following the successful implementation at
last year’s symposium, an optional third day for more focused workshopping, writing, and project planning, driven by the intersections made visible during the two conference days, will be available of December 7th for those who wish to participate. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Keynote speakers:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Professor Jessica Ringrose,</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">
University College London; </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Associate Professor Shaka McGlotten</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">,
Purchase College, State University of New York.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Please submit
<b>abstracts of 250-300 words to </b></span><span style="color:#212121;background:white"><a href="mailto:digitalintimacies@gmail.com" target="_blank" id="LPlnk281769"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">digitalintimacies@gmail.com</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white"> by
June 30, 2018</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">. We will send notifications of acceptances out by the end of July. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">We are hoping to make this a low-cost event, especially for students, but there will be a small registration fee to cover
costs.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Intimacies is now in its fourth year and continues to bring scholars of digital culture together from across Australia and beyond, across disciplines including media and communication, cultural studies, sociology, and gender studies. This year’s symposium
is convened by Amy Dobson and Tama Leaver, and is hosted by Curtin University’s Centre for Culture and Technology and the discipline of Internet Studies in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry. As social media open up intimate lives and practices
to public and semi-public gazes, we are in the midst of important cultural contestations over the meaning of intimacy. How intimacy plays out in, and in relation to, the digital has become a prominent concern in scholarship of digital cultures, as well as
in broader public debate. Intimacy is generally understood as to do with the ‘personal’ and with ‘closeness’ — as d<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold";color:#AC8404">Lecturer | Department of Internet Studies<br>
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Digital Cultures: </span></i><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif">Femininity, Social Media, and Self-Representation</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#212121">.</span></i><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#212121">
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold";color:#AC8404;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Lecturer | Department of Internet Studies<br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold";color:#BF8F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">School of Media,
</span><b><span style="color:#BF8F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Creative Arts and Social Inquiry</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold";color:#BF8F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> (MCASI)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold";color:#AC8404;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:blue">Femininity, Social Media, and Self-Representation</span></a></i></span><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">.</span></i><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">New York: Palgrave Macmillan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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