Mediated Intimacies

Rikke Andreassen, PhD from University of Toronto, Canada (2005), Professor (mso) in Communication Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. She is a researcher and teacher in the fields of media, gender, race and sexuality. She has recently published the book Human Exhibitions: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays (2015), as well as co-edited the anthology Race and Affectivity: Studies from a Nordic Context (2015). Michael Nebeling Petersen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark. His research centres on culture, power and identity, and he is interested in the intersections between gender, sexuality, kinship, race and nation. His recent publications include: Becoming Gay Fathers through Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in Journal of Family Studies (2016) and Dad & daddy assemblages: Re-suturing the nation through transnational surrogacy, homosexuality, and Norwegian exceptionalism in GLQ (with Krolkke and Myong, 2016). Katherine Harrison, postdoc at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a researcher at the Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Her areas of expertise include feminist cultural studies of technoscience with particular reference to digital technologies, science and technology studies and normcritical perspectives on gender and the body. Tobias Raun, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Roskilde University. He has published widely within the areas of visual culture, internet studies, cultural studies and gender studies, most recently the book Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube (2016) and a forthcoming publication on transgender selfies in the edited collection Sex in the Digital Age (2017).

List of Figures, List of Contributors 1. Introduction - Michael Nebeling Petersen, Katherine Harrison, Tobias Raun and Rikke Andreassen Section 1: Communities and Activism 2. Something substantive enough to reach out and touch: The intimate politics of digital anti-rape activism - Debra Ferreday 3. Intimate communities: Hackerspaces, digital engagement and affective relations - Sarah R. Davies 4. Online community and new family scripts - Rikke Andreassen 5. Textures of intimacy: Witnessing embodied mobile loss, affect and heartbreak - Lin Pritz, Larissa Hjorth and Amparo Lasn 6. Edge Effect: New image formations and identity politics - Marco Bohr and Basia Sliwinska Section 2: Relationship Making and Maintenance 7. Innovations in intimacy: Internet Dating in an international frame - Christine Beasley, Mary Holmes, Katherine Harrison and Carolins Wamala Larsson 8. Infrastructures of intimacy - Susanna Paasonen 9. Temporal ephemerality, persistent affectivity: Circulation of intimacies on Snapchat - Jette Kofoed 10. Beyond engineered intimacy: Navigating social media platforms to manage intimate relationships - Christina Miguel 11. In with expectations and out with disappointment: Gay tailored social media and the redefinition of intimacy - Yin Zhang and John Nguyet Erni Section 3 - Integrating and Domesticating 12. Mediating intimacies through mobile communication: Chinese migrant mothers digital bridge of magpies- Yang Wang and Sun Sun Lim 13. Young children and digital media in the intimacy of the home: Perceptions and mediation - Rita Brito and Patrcia Dias 14. Connecting with the dead: Vernacular practices of mourning through photo-sharing on Facebook - Tobias Raun 15. Bleeding boundaries: Domesticating gay hook-up apps - Kristian Mller and Michael Nebeling Petersen Section 4: Becoming and Performing 16. Teen boys on YouTube: Representations of gender and intimacy - Claire Baileys 17. Technical intimacies and Otherkin becomings - Eva Zekany 18. Broadcasting the bedroom: Intimate musical practices and collapsing contexts on YouTube - Maarten Michielse 19. Fashion blogging as a technology of bodily becoming: The fluidity and firmness of digital bodies - Louise Yung Nielsen 20. My Friend Bubz: Building intimacy on YouTubes beauty community - Florencia Garcia-Rapp, Index