(Director, Centre for Inter-Asian Research, Ahmedabad University, India)
 

日期 (Date): 2023.02.06(MON)

時間 (Time)：14:00∼15:30

實體地點 (Venue): 國立中央大學人文社會科學大樓LS-205室

Room LS-205, Humanities & Social Sciences Building, NCU

ZOOM：https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85491139854?pwd=S0NTZm0xeHp6c0cyUkJUY3NLakdtdz09

會議 ID：854 9113 9854
密碼：936286

*英文演講，實體與線上並行*
Language: English; online access available
 

This project seeks to investigate how young women understand and experience intimacy in the age of social media. Specifically, it looks at negotiations around the institutions of family, marriage, and tertiary education, all three of which appear to be undergoing profound transformation due to digital mediation. The researcher team is carrying out a multi-sited study of young university-going women in four cities: Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Singapore, and Bangalore, chosen for their high percentage of social media usage in Asia among women in the 18-30 age group. The project focusses on three aspects of social media, namely microblogging, file-sharing and services (eg., provided by dating apps), as well as on communicative media (eg., WeChat, WhatsApp, Instagram), deploying in-depth, qualitative methodologies to generate rich site-specific data. Using a qualitative ethnographic approach, the project talks to 120 women (30 in each of the 4 locations) to throw new light on emerging practices of digital intimacy, with specific reference to how young, college-going women cultivate a digital persona of their selves, and how such personae forge new ways of negotiating and navigating the realms of courtship/marriage, kinship/family and university education.

主辦單位：亞際文化研究國際碩士學位學程（台灣聯合大學系統）、台聯大文化研究國際中心、台聯大文化研究跨校碩博士學分學程、國立中央大學性／別研究室、國立中央大學高教深耕計畫