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| == ⭐ intro (what is this text about) ==
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| ''Yet the autobiographical isn’t the personal. […]All sorts of narratives are read as autobiographies of collective experience. The personal is the general. Publics presume intimacy (Berlant, 2008).''
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| == ⭐ chapter 1 = Online Intimate Publics ==
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| Intimate publics were originally defined by Berlant as embodied spaces, even if built of strangers and centred around media and culture. To reimagine them in a body-less, digital space we first must understand their original conception.
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| Generally, intimate publics are scenes where personal, self, and political aspects are turned into commodities. These spaces can serve as arenas for pedagogical discourse, addressing normativity and normative intimate desires across diverse subject groups. Intimate publics function as settings that promise and deliver sentiments of belonging and solace. In simpler terms, they create an "experience of belonging" and encompass a mix of comfort, affirmation, guidance, and conversations about living a certain way (2008, p. viii).
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| For the scope of my thesis I am interested in how these dynamics of intimacy and publicness are being performed on a web-based infrastructure. When intimate publics are online they become radical, disruptive performances of togetherness. My claim does not go against the public construction of these virtual publics as ‘failed intimacies that disrupt the flow of a good life lived right, that is, a life that involves coupling and kids, or at least, coupling and consumption’ (McGlotten, 2013, p. 7). Instead I wish to lean into this dichotomy of "real" versus "virtual" intimacy as a means to imagine more fluid forms of connection and belonging. Forms that exist outside normative relational construction and behind, above and underneath institutions, states, nations, and the ideal of publicness (Berlant 1998, p. 284).
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| This becomes especially interesting when you start to look into who makes up these intimate publics online. In spaces of digression from normative society, closeness, vulnerability and understanding seem to grow parallel to anonymity. Diverse groups of individuals that deviate from the norm navigate through intimate publics to foster forms of insider acknowledgment and cultural self-growth. Despite or perhaps due to their devaluation by mainstream society, marginalised people create a sense of social belonging near the technologies that turn the physical world into a place of emotional investment and identification. They create online intimacies of the unbearable.
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| == ⭐ chapter 2 = Online Intimacies of the Unbearable ==
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| == ⭐chapter 3 = Unbearable Intimacy ==
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| == ⭐ conclusion ==
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| == ⭐ references ==
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| Adler, P.A. and Adler, P. (2008) ‘The Cyber Worlds of self-injurers: Deviant communities, relationships, and selves’, ''Symbolic Interaction'', 31(1), pp. 33–56. doi:10.1525/si.2008.31.1.33.
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| Andreassen, R. (2017) ‘New Kinships, new family formations and negotiations of intimacy via Social Media Sites’, ''Journal of Gender Studies'', 26(3), pp. 361–371. doi:10.1080/09589236.2017.1287683.
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| Berlant, L.G. (2008) ''The female complaint the unfinished business of sentimentality in American culture''. Durham: Duke University Press.
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| Lagerkvist, A. and Andersson, Y. (2017) ‘The grand interruption: Death online and mediated lifelines of shared vulnerability’, ''Feminist Media Studies'', 17(4), pp. 550–564. doi:10.1080/14680777.2017.1326554.
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| Mesch, G.S. (2011) ‘Minority status and the use of computer-mediated communication’, ''Communication Research'', 39(3), pp. 317–337. doi:10.1177/0093650211398865.
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| Schwartz, A. (2020) ‘Soft femme theory: Femme internet aesthetics and the politics of “softness”’, ''Social Media + Society'', 6(4), p. 205630512097836. doi:10.1177/2056305120978366.
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| Shields Dobson, A., Robards, B. and Carah, N. (2019) ''Digital Intimate Publics and social media''. Palgrave Macmillian (Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change).
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| Smith, N., Wickes, R. and Underwood, M. (2013) ‘Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat acceptance cybercommunities’, ''Journal of Sociology'', 51(4), pp. 950–967. doi:10.1177/1440783313486220.
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