[ecrea] Digital Intimacies 3.0: Connections & Disconnections

*Digital Intimacies 3.0: Connections & Disconnections - Call for Papers*
November 13-15, 2017

RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

Abstracts due: June 30

Convenors: Jenny Kennedy (RMIT), Brady Robards (Monash), and Tania Lewis 
(RMIT)

Keynotes: Prof. Kath Albury (Swinburne) and more to be announced

Digital media have come to occupy a central role in the mediation, 
recording, and remembering of intimate lives: from geolocative traces, 
romantic relationships on Facebook, private Snapchats, pictures of 
newborns on Instagram, and hook-ups on Tinder or Grindr, to shared 
survival stories of assault and sexual violence on Reddit.

Going beyond the logic of connectivity and sharing that dominates much 
of the research into digital media, Light (2014) has drawn attention to 
the various ways in which digital media can also operate as sites of 
disconnection. As digital traces of lives mediated in digital spaces 
bleed and permeate, echoes of intimacies are regularly resurfaced: 
untagged photos, archived emails, unfriended people, deleted apps. These 
traces evidence episodes of disconnection as much as connection.

- What can the study of digital media reveal about disconnections in our 
intimate lives?
- In what ways do digital media shape both our connections and 
disconnections?
- What questions are raised about what (or who) we delete and how we 
remember?
- What is the role of automation in intimate connections and disconnections?

Following the success of the first two Digital Intimacies symposia, held 
at UQ and hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities 
(IASH), convened by Amy Dobson, Nic Carah, and Brady Robards, this year 
we are bringing the event to Melbourne, to be hosted at RMIT by the 
School of Media and Communication.

The single stream symposium will run for two days, November 13 + 14, 
2017. This year, there will be an optional third day (November 15) of 
collaborative workshops. The idea here is to capture the energy from the 
symposium and provide space for collaborative work and further discussions.

We are again calling for paper abstracts on the themes of digital media 
and intimate lives, with particular interest around the theme of 
connection and disconnection.

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words to (jenny.kennedy /at/ rmit.edu.au) 
<mailto:(jenny.kennedy /at/ rmit.edu.au)> by June 30, 2017. We will send 
notifications of acceptances out by mid-July. We are hoping to make this 
a low-cost event, especially for students, but there may be a small 
registration fee to cover costs.

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