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.

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1 Postdigital intimacies: an introduction
Adrienne Evans, Shaka McGlotten, Jamie Hakim, Amy Shields Dobson and Jessica Ringrose

Part I: Postdigital feelings

2 The vibe factory: intimacy, affective capitalism and digital media
Maria Gemma Brown, Nicholas Carah and Amy Shields Dobson

3 Boring intimacies: #BoredVibes and the affective public-private
Tina Kendall

4 Intimate matters: privacy and security and networked mental health support
Marjo Kolehmainen

5 Sinéad O’Connor, ‘bipolar’ celebrity and mediated intimacies: towards a mad feminist temporal politics
Debra Ferreday

Part II: Postdigital connections and collectivities

6 Postdigital intimacies and digital feminist activism
Estefanía Reyes and Kaitlynn Mendes

7 Affect, Black diaspora, and postdigital: moving towards a theory of Black digital relational intimacies
tèmítópé lasade-anderson

8 Queer social media imaginaries and relational becoming amongst sapphic youth
Niamh White

9 (Dis)embodied feminist rage and the affective economies of postdigital visibility
Xumeng Xie

Part III: Postdigital violences and vulnerabilities

10 Bypassing consent? A postdigital platform affordance methodology for exploring youth experiences of Snapchat
Jessica Ringrose

11 Sexual harm and image sharing: rethinking and reimagining gender, power and intimacy with and for adolescent boys
Emily Setty

12 Sexting risk and negotiations of consent in masculinity identity construction
Rikke Amundsen

13 The deepfake, the screenshot and the leak: vulnerable visibilities of the body in postdigital intimacies
Emily van der Nagel

14 Nude image sharing and image-based sexual abuse on Netflix’s Sex Education and HBO’s Euphoria
Tanya Horeck

Part IV: Postdigital kindship, domesticity and hospitality

15 Postdigital queer kinship: intimacy, choice and the market
Rikke Andreassen and Ulrika Dahl

16 ‘Home is where the data is’: what is at stake in the trade in data-households?
Alison Winch

17 Migrant domestic women workers’ cartographies of care: a postdigital feminist scoping review
Zoe Hurley

18 If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it: self-tracking and intimacy in wearable tech
Lindsay Balfour

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