Digital Intimacies

Proposes that by understanding queer men's cultures of intimacy we gain insight into the historical moment in which they occur. In taking this approach the book provides a novel and richly detailed account of these cultures as well as the broader context in which they have unfolded

Jamie Hakim is Lecturer in culture, media and creative industries, King's College, London, UK. His research interests lie at the intersection of digital culture, intimacy, embodiment and care. His previous book Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture was published in 2019. Ingrid Young is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is a medical sociologist who is particularly interested in how experiences of and inequalities across gender, sexualities, race and technologies shape sexual health and wellbeing. James Cummings is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK. He uses ethnographic and interview methods to explore relationships between gender, sexuality, being and living and how these play out in everyday social and material settings, as well as over life courses. James is the author of The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan: Sociality, Space and Time (2022).

i. Acknowledgements1. Queer Men's Smartphone Mediated Intimacies in the Post-Neoliberal Conjuncture2. Vulnerability and Control3. Race, Racism and Digital Intimacies 4. Trans-masc Digital Intimacies5. Safer Space and Collective Intimacies6. Pandemic Digital Intimacies7. Conclusion8. Appendix 1: Methods9. Appendix 2: Participant Demographic InformationBibliographyIndex