Postdigital Intimacies: Relational Lives in the Networked Public-Private

Postdigital Intimacies: Relational Lives in the Networked Public-Private provides a unique and timely collection of research exploring postdigital intimacies, offering the reader original accounts of postdigital intimacies. Situated at the intersection of the increasing and ubiquitous normalisation of digital technology, cultures, algorithms, and AI in our relationships with ourselves and with others, the contributors explore the social, political and cultural implications of an interconnected, networked and algorithmic public-private. The book does so through sections that explore: postdigital feelings; postdigital connections and collectivities; postdigital violences and vulnerability; and postdigital kindship, domesticity and hospitality. Each chapter provides a different lens on these themes, and are informed by an orientation towards intersectional feminist, queer and anti-racist, postcolonial theory. They are built on a hope that research can – if not provide ‘future’ directions for research – then instead create more hopeful, affirmative, collective and prefigurative ones that are more equitable and socially just.