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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.