Digital Subjectivity and Mediated Intimacy

In this two-day event, we look towards creating an assemblage of ideas, concepts, thoughts and equivalences between a number of projects. The starting point for this assemblage is the TubeCrush project, funded by the British Academy, which aimed to tap into a web of concerns, including but not limited to: contemporary masculinity, the city, digital media, the sharability of images, urban workplaces, intimate relationship and privacy and consent.

Taking our cue from the project, the work presented over these two days will ‘call at a number of stations’, exploring how these concerns have influenced others’ work and how they have come to shape other projects. In doing so, we hope to create two days that will ‘scale out’, rather than ‘scale up’, and provide connections between research in a way that is exploratory and relational.

Included in the two days, and based on our own experiences and those of some of our speakers, are workshops that will speak to academic concerns about how research in gender and feminist studies can engage with the public and with impact.

November 22nd

Location: EC1-29, Engineering Building, Coventry University

11.00-11.15 Introduction and welcome, Gary Hall

11.15-12.15 TubeCrush as Connected Intimacy, Adrienne Evans and Sarah Riley

12.15-1.15 Life so Instagrammable: Looking, showing and other image sharing practices on social media, Katrin Tiidenberg

1.15 - 2.00 Lunch

2.00 -3.30 Exploring Public Space with LEGO® with Oliver Wood and Adrienne Evans

3.30-4.30 Nomadic urbanity and critical inquiry, Ali Madanipour

4.30 – 5.00 Next stop

November 23rd

Location: The Tank, The Hub, Coventry University

10.30-11.00 Moving forward – responses

11.00-12.00 Mind the gap: Technological attachments and interstitial time, Sharif Mowlabocus

12.00-1.00 Affective economies of gendered value: Exploring idealised feminine embodiment in public advertising,

Jessica Ringrose and Kaitlyn Regehr

1.00-2.00 Lunch

2.00-3.30 Open market and open space technology with Sarah Riley and Adrienne Evans

3.30 - Coffee/networking/closing discussion