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<p>Dear colleagues, <br>
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<p>A reminder about this event tomorrow:</p>
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April 2021, 10am-12pm GMT – online.</span></p>
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of the AHRC Postdigital Intimacies series. </span><br>
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;letter-spacing:.4pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Digital
culture has regularly been understood as facilitating new
intimate connections.
But there is a growing recognition that we should pay attention
to moments
where intimacy is repudiated, ruptures, breaks down, or appears
to fail, or
when intimacy produces nuanced feelings of hostility, anger or
boredom.</span>
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;letter-spacing:.4pt">In this
first symposium in the series,
we draw attention to such failure. Our speakers highlight the
way such failure
is located in power structures, structured by gender, race and
sexual identity.
Their talks will explore new forms of extremism forged through
the connective
spread and contagion of online networks, as well as injury and
repair.</span>
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letter-spacing:.4pt">Debbie Ging, Associate Professor of Media
Studies in the
School of Communications, Dublin City University, Ireland. </span></b>
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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Blackpilled: Incels, evolutionary
psychology and the
failed intimacies of neoliberal capitalism</span></p>
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letter-spacing:.4pt">Jessica Ringrose, Professor of Sociology
of Gender and
Education at the University College London Institute of
Education, UK.</span></b></p>
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and Digital
Culture at the University of Kent, UK.</span></b></p>
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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Understanding online sexual
harassment and image
based sexual abuse: Changing the conceptual frames around youth
digital sexual
cultures</span></p>
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letter-spacing:.4pt">Amy Dobson, Lecturer in Digital and
Social Media at Curtin
University, Australia.</span></b></p>
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publics </span></p>
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links to our
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures">http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Latest:
Book (open access): A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/</a>
Chapter (open access): ‘Postdigital Politics’, in Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder, eds, Aesthetics of the Commons:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419">https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419</a>
Video: 'Can We Unlearn Liberal Individualism: Gary Hall in Conversation with Carolina Rito About A Stubborn Fury: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQiRCib_AU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQiRCib_AU</a>
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