Digital Intimacies Symposium 2026
An international gathering of scholars exploring the intersections of digital media, intimacy, and everyday life. Keynotes, panels, and workshops across two days.
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ECR Workshop: Publishing and Networking in Digital Intimacies Research
A half-day online workshop for early career researchers in the field, covering publication strategies, grant writing, and building collaborative networks across disciplines.
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Queer Connections: LGBTQIA+ Intimacies in Networked Publics
An interview-based project on how LGBTQIA+ communities build intimacy, care and visibility across social media and niche networked publics.
Members: Eve Ng, Rosie Nelson
Read moreIntimate Data: Dating Apps and the Datafication of Desire
A cross-national study of how dating and hook-up platforms shape intimate self-presentation, consent and the datafication of desire among young adults.
Members: Brady Robards, Marco Scarcelli
Read moreRecent Publications
Email brady.robards@monash.edu or cosimomarco.scarcelli@unipd.it to add your publications here.
Dating Apps and the Architecture of Intimate Life: Algorithms, Affect and the Datafied Self
Members: Marco Scarcelli
New Media & Society
View publicationDigital Intimacies: Sex, Relationships and Cultures Online
Members: Brady Robards, Marco Scarcelli, Eve Ng
Routledge
View publicationLGBTQIA+ Youth, Online Communities and the Politics of Digital Belonging
Members: Rosie Nelson, Brady Robards
Journal of Youth Studies
View publicationMisinformation, Emotional Contagion and Intimate Publics: How Rumour Spreads Through Networked Relationships
Members: Eve Ng
In: Quandt, T. & Boberg, S. (Eds.), Misinformation and the Media Ecosystem. Palgrave Macmillan.
View publicationYoung People, Sexting and Online Cultures: Navigating Risk and Intimacy in the Digital Age
Members: Eve Ng, Rosie Nelson
Palgrave Macmillan
View publicationIntimacy, Surveillance and the Quantified Relationship: Tracking Love in the Age of Wearables
Members: Brady Robards
In: Chambers, D. & Holloway, S. (Eds.), Digital Cultures and Everyday Life. Routledge.
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