NETWORKED INTIMATE

CITIZENSHIP

Sonja Vivienne

mediated social change?

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

CfCSC, UQ

context practice questions

1 2 3

social change

erosive cultural change?

1theoretical context

private spheres

intimate publics

networked individualism

networked + intimate + citizenship

digital dualism

privacy & publicness

surveillance & self-exposure

mediated practice

2

transgressive transitions

• home/less• birth/death

• gender • adulthood

• state/less

• sexuality

• citizenship

• marriage/family• dis-ability

‘work, love, play’

Hmong child marriage

voluntary euthanasia

‘transition support services’

‘aged care, digital lifestyles’

hearing voices

creative workshops

multi-platform

mapping practice

participatory action research

researchquestions

3

INTIMACY CITIZENSHIP

NETWORKS

identity

private public

mediated

negotiated

belonging

how do we, in transgressive transitions,

speak across differences among networked publics,

to catalyse change?

how can people & platforms mediate this process

sustainably?

significance

affective nuanced data,

influencing policy, education,

law reform...

sonja vivienne

+61(0) 418 660 908s.vivienne@uq.edu.au

Skype: sonjaviTwitter: @sonjaviv

www.incitestories.com.auwww.rainbowfamilytree.com

Q&A?

image attributions:

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‘Privacy, health, fears over airport X-ray’ by publik16 http://www.flickr.com/photos/22941790@N02/2904857669 via Compfight - cc - by-nc-nd

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SMC blog: http://socialmediacollective.org/2013/09/24/monitoring-youth/

Russia’s neo-nazi sport:

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‘Cyberbullying Law and the New School Year’ by CT Senate Democrats:

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‘Networked’ Cover: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413hdpXZ2IL.jpg

‘The Female Complaint’ Cover: http://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/Books/978-0-8223-4202-1_pr.jpg

‘A Private Sphere’ Cover: http://www.polity.co.uk/digitalmediaandsociety/images/covers/large/private_sphere.jpg

‘Intimate Citizenship’ Cover: http://www.mqup.ca/filebin/images/products/zoom/9780773526570.jpg

Rainbow Family Tree homepage: www.rainbowfamilytree.com

‘My Secret Story’ still excerpt from ‘My Secret Story’ by Frank

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Life saving tips for young muslims: http://www.dulwichcentre.com.au/images/site/lifesaving.jpg

Same-sex parenting: http://www.australianmarriageequality.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/pram-and-rainbow-flaglrg.jpg

Nursing Home neglect: http://kanelegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/nursing.png

Old & dying: http://www.kentuckyinjurylawyerblog.com/afc6092bec1ebaf3592320d3bb538e76.jpg

Corporate Art: http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/events_programs/images/corporate_art_workshop_2.JPG

Tree of Life: http://www.dulwichcentre.com.au/images/stories/cover_p5.jpg

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Barbie low angle:

http://keepingupwiththeholsbys.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/barbie.jpg?w=490&h=367

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