Postdigital Intimacies: Relational Lives in the Networked Public-Private

The first full-length study to explore, analyze, and critically engage with intimacy in a world where the digital is embedded in everyday life.

Postdigital Intimacies is a timely collection of research into the complex interplay between digital and nondigital relationships. From vibey social media experiences to shared activism, access to online mental health care, and exposure to harm, the book reveals the social, political, and cultural implications of intimacy in a blurry public-private.

Jessica Ringrose is a professor of sociology of gender and education, and codirector of the Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity at University College London (UCL). She is the author of Teens, Social Media and Image Based Abuse. Amy Shields Dobson convenes the digital and social media program at Curtin University on Whadjuk Boodjar. They are the author of Postfeminist Digital Cultures, coauthor of Media and Society, and coeditor of Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media. Jamie Hakim is a senior lecturer in media and cultural studies at King’s College, London. He is the author of Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture and coauthor of Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis. As part of the Care Collective, he has also coauthored The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence. Shaka McGlotten is a professor of media studies and anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY, where they also serve as the chair of the gender studies program and the cochair of media studies. They are author of Dragging: Or, In the Drag of a Queer Life and Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality and coeditor of Black Genders and Sexualities and Zombies and Sexuality. Adrienne Evans is a professor of gender and culture in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University, UK. She is coauthor of Sexiness, Digital Feeling, Postfeminism and Health, and Postfeminism and Body Image.