Program
The full program for Digital Intimacies 9 is now available here in pdf format
Day 1 – Thursday 14th December 2023
8:30 to 9:00 – Registration
9:00 to 10:00 – Welcome and Keynote
10:00 to 10:15 – Break
10:15 to 12:00 – Session 1: Solidarity, Resistance, Love
- AI, algorithms and linguistic subterfuge on TikTok – Erynn Young
- Love amongst the ruins: Reflections on a 💕✨Towards a Positive Internet✨💕 workshop – Aleesha Rodriguez, Naomi Smith, and Clare Southerton
- Share an Orange With Me: Quotidian Hope and Relational Imaginaries in Tumblr and TikTok’s Web Weaving – Niamh White
- Iranian humor influencers and digital resistance on Instagram – Samaneh Koohestani
- Growing out of the online ruins of the Depp v Heard trial – Lucinda Nelson
12:00 to 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 to 2:45 – Session 2: Influencers, Advertising, and Consumer Culture
- Mr Beast’s Giant Hole – Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness
- A critical exploration of identity through digital advertising on social media platforms – Lauren Hayden
- The Nesting Strategies of e-Commerce Wanghong: Promotional Temporalities in Online Shopping Festivals on Chinese Platforms – Ruohan Li and Crystal Abidin
- Barbenheimer Summer: The Hottest on Record – Anna P. Wald
- Making Social Media Makeovers: Chinese Women’s Affective and Discursive Constructions of Cosmetic Surgery on RED – Xiaowei Liang
2:45 to 3:00 – Break
3:00 – 4:30 – Session 3: Interspecies Encounters: From Pets to Bots
- Multispecies Justice in ‘Smartified’ Urban Ruins – Hira Sheikh
- “We make them our kin”: Older adult’s sharing rituals of animal images in Australia – Caitlin McGrane, Peta Murray, and Larissa Hjorth
- Future/Pets: Intimacies with animal robots – Megan Rose
- The robotic ruination of restaurant service – Chris Chesher and Justine Humphry
Day 2 – Friday 15th December 2023
9:00 to 10:00 – Welcome & Keynote
10:00 to 10:15 – Break
10:15 to 12:00 – Session 4: Public and Private
- Eternity in a millisecond – Nikhil Dharmaraj
- (In)visibly queer: British South Asian Instagrammers – Priya Sharma
- When Personal Data Isn’t: Toward a Concept of Entangled Data – Tama Leaver
- Material publics: small museums and digital collections as disruptive heritage spaces – Lisa Enright
- Traces in ruins: methodological challenges of working with digital resonances – Suneel Jethani and Dale Leorke
12:00 to 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 to 2:45 – Session 5: Death, Aging, and the Archive
- Living in the web’s ruins: exploring affective experiences and encounters in web archives – Kieran Hegarty
- The Heaven’s Gate Cult Website as a Study in Internet Abandonment – Oscar Nearly
- Aging bodies, aging technologies: Making care and making do – Lisa Vonk
- Contrasting life / death: Instagram self-portraits at New York City’s 9/11 Memorial – Amanda Burgess
2:45 to 3:00 – Break
3:00 to 4:30 – Session 6: Emotional Labour, Care, and Dating
- Versions of Intimacy: Chatting To And About CarynAI – Leah Henrickson
- Exploring selfie-editing practices with young people: contextualising narratives of self(ie)-awareness, self-care, and mental health in postfeminist neoliberal social contexts – Amy Shields Dobson
- Identity and love – How Brazilian teenagers try to fashion normalcy through social media in a context of precarity – André Cardozo Sarli
- Trusting a Dating App: A study on Bumble’s disruptions and negotiations in India – Benson Rajan
- Only a man can talk with a man”: Divisions of emotional labour between performers and ghost-writers in live sexual entertainment – Hanne Stegeman
Location
The entire conference takes place at the QUT Gardens Point campus, S Block, Level 12 in the Owen J. Wordsworth room (lift access available). For a map of the campus as well as directions, see the QUT campus map.