Speaker: Tejaswini Niranjana
Titled ‘Digital Intimacies: Friends, Lovers, and Families in Contemporary Asia’, the talk is based on a multi-country research project by Tejaswini Niranjana.
The theorist explored several pertinent questions such as: how do young women understand and experience intimacy in the age of social media? Are their experiences qualitatively different after the millennial turn and the rapid expansion of digital technologies? What impact do these digital experiences and understanding of intimacy have on how millennial subjects experience, understand, and negotiate social relations in globalizing Asia?