Digital Intimacy: Young Women, Gendered Modernities and Aspirations in Inter-Asia
SOASThornhaugh Street, Russell Square
Wed 30 Sept · 17:15
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What does digital intimacy look like in Asia's most dynamic cities? Drawing on multi-sited research across Bangalore, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Singapore, this book explores how young women navigate technology, desire, and modern life without defaulting to Western frameworks. How do young women navigate intimacy in an age of digital ubiquity? This inter-Asia study adopts a qualitative approach to understand young women’s engagements with digital technologies in four major Asian metropolitan sites with accompanying discussions of media representations and policy documents relating to digital use. The four sites, Bangalore, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Singapore are important nodes within criss-crossing local, national, regional (Asian) and global configurations and circulations of culture, economy and technology. Our collaborative multi-sited research in Asia enables analysis of how such circulations of technology intersect with the lived experiences of young women situated within local/national contexts and histories without making the ‘West’ the default reference point. The book reveals how digital intimacy practices intersect with histories of gendered modernities and neoliberal transformations in these globalizing ‘aspirational’ cities.
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