How to Use This
Digital Intimacies Syllabus 1.1
Basic Info
| Category |
Info |
| Draft Date |
December 19, 2024 |
| Launch Date |
February 11, 2025 |
| Contributor |
Norah Chow (University of Kentucky) |
| Schedule |
15 weeks (excluding 1-week break) |
| Structure |
Linear |
Syllabyus Structure
| Category |
Theme |
| Basics |
1. Course Introduction |
| Basics |
2. Technology, Platform, Celebrity, and Participation |
| Basics |
3. What Do We Talk About When We Talk About (Digital) Intimacy? |
| Framework |
4. Connection, Infrastructure, and Touch |
| Framework |
5. Affective Network and Networked Affect |
| Framework |
6. Texture, Modality, and Everydayness |
| Framework |
7. Transformative Intimacy and Digital Worldin |
| Key Topics |
8. Dating, Sexting, and Mobile Intimacy |
| Key Topics |
9. Activism, Feminism, and Counterpublics |
| Key Topics |
10. Archive |
| Key Topics |
11. Sex Work |
| Key Topics |
12. Toxic Technocultures |
| Key Topics |
13. Health, Care, and Wellbeing |
| Key Topics |
14. Death, Mourning, and Grief |
| Assignment |
15. Presentation |
Inside Each Module
| Category |
Description |
| Mandatory Reading |
Graduate-level readings for the week. |
| *Further Reading |
Recommended readings for that module. |
| *Advanced UG Version |
Undergraduate-level readings for the week. |
| Rationale |
Why this module and why these readings. |
*May not appear in every module in this version.