Abstract
Digital Intimacies, Young People and Everyday Life is an international conference dedicated to exploring how young people’s intimate, affective, and sexual lives are being reshaped within contemporary digital environments. The event brings together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to discuss how platforms, social media, smartphones, and digital cultures contribute to transforming everyday practices, gender identities, sexualities, friendships, romantic relationships, care, and forms of togetherness.
The conference focuses particularly on the experiences of teenagers and young adults, examining how digital technologies are embedded in everyday life and how they create spaces for possibility, negotiation, and experimentation, as well as new tensions, vulnerabilities, and inequalities. Through keynote lectures, roundtables, and parallel sessions, the event offers a space for international dialogue on theoretical approaches, research methodologies, and empirical findings in the fields of digital intimacies, youth media studies, and gender and sexuality studies. The keynote speakers are Jessica Ringrose (UCL) and Paul Byron (STU).
Organised within the framework of the Di.G.I.T. – Digital practices, Gender and Intimacy in Teens’ everyday life project, the conference aims to foster critical discussion on young people’s digital practices and on the role of media in shaping contemporary forms of intimacy.
