Postdigital Intimacies and the Networked Public-Private

数字文化已经与所有形式的亲密社会和个人生活密不可分，以至于无法感知。这带来了一系列全球性挑战，尤其是我们如何理解自己，它如何影响健康和福祉，我们如何了解数字文化，以及我们如何应对风险，安全挑战和这种背景下普遍存在的不平等。例如，监测和测量月经或怀孕等身体功能，人们在社交媒体上分享亲密关系的细节，以及我们在家中与人工辅助技术发展的亲密关系。这个网络提出了“后数字亲密关系”的新概念，作为理解公共和私人世界通过多个数字网络崩溃的起点。我们建议，这一概念提供了一个重要的方式来解决围绕重塑公共和私人的知识差距，提供了一个基本的概念，学者可以创建新的帐户，有能力塑造重要的社会问题。该网络将为探讨五个相互关联的主题提供背景，每一个主题都将在一次专题讨论会上讨论。这些主题是：1.失败的亲密关系，看看我们如何生活和理解自己在敌对的数字环境（例如拖钓），当这种敌意感觉非常个人化，以及人们使用什么策略来保护自己和他人;2。视觉伦理/网络自我，调查视觉数字文化如何成为我们与自己和他人关系的正常部分（例如自拍），以及从这些实践中出现的新的伦理困境;3.有影响力的网络，研究媒体影响者和数字公司如何塑造我们的个人信仰、消费和理想，反之亦然，互联网如何塑造我们所看到的（例如搜索引擎）;4.（后）数字数据和关系，探索我们如何创建和共享信息，以及这如何塑造我们的“现实生活”的关系，并使隐私和安全的概念复杂化;5。公共/私人艺术，行动主义，自由主义，评估艺术家，文化生产者和从业者如何代表和创造性地回应公共和私人世界的方式已经成为intertwined.A网络解决的进一步贡献关注我们作为学者如何产生关于后数字亲密关系的知识，然后可以告知更广泛的社会和公众的理解和形状干预。作为回应，该网络的研讨会借鉴了世界领先的国际学者的贡献，他们在与不同的利益攸关方和用户群体合作方面享有盛誉，并为研究亲密关系提出了令人兴奋的新方法。该网络将利用这一专门知识，通过培训作为下一代知识生产者的早期职业研究人员，为新的想法和研究提供种子。因此，该网络代表了一个面向未来的感叹词，为下一代研究人员提供了有所作为的技能和技术，通过填补这些空白，该网络将对该领域做出重要贡献，并解决更广泛的公共讨论和私人关注的重大问题。

Digital culture has become inextricable from all forms of intimate social and personal life, to the point of being imperceptible. This creates a number of global challenges, not least in how we make sense of ourselves, how it effects health and wellbeing, how we learn about digital culture, and how we navigate the risks, challenges to security and the prevailing inequalities of such a context. Examples include the monitoring and measuring of bodily functions like menstruation or pregnancy, people sharing details of intimate relationships on social media, and the intimate relationships we develop with artificial assistant technology in our homes. This network proposes the novel concept of a 'postdigital intimacy' as a starting point for making sense of the collapsing of public and private worlds through multiple digital networks. We propose that this concept provides an important way of addressing gaps in knowledge around the reshaping of the public and private, providing an underlying concept upon which academics can create new accounts that have the capacity to shape important societal issues. The network will provide the context in which to inquire into five interrelated themes, each of which will be addressed in a symposia event. These themes are:1. Failed Intimacies, looking at how we live and make sense of ourselves in hostile digital environments (e.g. trolling) when such hostility feels deeply personal, and what strategies people use to defend themselves and others;2. Visual Ethics/Networked Selves, investigating how visual-digital culture has become a normal part of how we relate to ourselves and others (e.g. selfies), and the new ethical dilemmas that emerge from these practices;3. Influential Net-Works, examining how media influencers and digital corporations shape our personal beliefs, consumption and ideals, and conversely how the internet shapes what we see (e.g. search engines);4. (Post)digital Data and Relationships, exploring how we create and share information and how this shapes our 'real-life' relationships and complicates notions of privacy and security;5. Public/Private Art, Activism, Archavism, assessing how artists, cultural producers and practitioners have represented and creatively responded to the ways public and private worlds have become intertwined.A further contribution addressed by the network concerns how we as academics produce knowledge about postdigital intimacies that can then inform wider societal and public understandings and shape interventions. In response, the network's symposia draw on contributions from world-leading international scholars, who have an outstanding reputation for working with different stakeholders and user-groups and have also initiated exciting new methodological approaches for studying intimacy. The network will harness this expertise and seed new ideas and research through training early career researchers, who are the next generation of knowledge producers. Thus, the network represents a future-oriented interjection, priming that next generation of researchers with the skills and techniques to make a difference.By attending to these gaps, the network will be an important contribution to the field, as well as addressing issues of significant interest to wider public discussions and private concerns.