Postdigital Intimacies

Adrienne Evans (Editor)

Adrienne Evans is Professor of Gender and Culture in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University, UK. Her current work is interested in how digital positivity cultures create new intimate relations that shape how we navigate the world, and how we can do positivity otherwise. She is co-author with Sarah Riley of Technologies of Sexiness (2014) and Digital Feeling (2023) and co-author with Sarah Riley and Martine Robson of Postfeminism and Health (2018) and Postfeminism and Body Image (2022). She co-founded with Jessica Ringrose the AHRC network Postdigital Intimacies and the Networked Public-Private.

Jamie Hakim (Editor)

Jamie Hakim is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at King’s College, London. His research interests lie at the intersection of digital cultures, intimacy, embodiment and care. His book Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2019. His co-authored, open access book Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2024. As part of the Care Collective he has also co-authored The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence (Verso, 2020).

Jessica Ringrose (Editor)

Jessica Ringrose is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Education, and co-Director of the Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity at UCL. Her research explores young people’s gender and sexual diversities, cultures and activisms, sex education and digital literacy. She has worked with a wide range of global stakeholders and academics to shape policy and practice in areas of education, communications, and justice. In 2020 she was the recipient of The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Award. Her latest book is Teens, Social Media and Image Based Abuse (Palgrave, 2025).

Amy Shields Dobson (Editor)

Amy Shields Dobson convenes the Digital and Social Media program at Curtin University, on Whadjuk Boodjar. They also lead the Digital Intimacies research stream within Curtin’s Centre for Culture and Technology. They are an expert across gender and feminism, gendered subjectivities, youth, and social media. They are the author of Postfeminist Digital Cultures (2015), co-author of Media and Society(in press) and co-editor of Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media (2018).

Shaka McGlotten (Editor)

Shaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY, where they also serve as Chair of the Gender Studies program and the Co-Chair of Media Studies. An anthropologist and artist, McGlotten’s interdisciplinary research explores the intersections of black study, queer theory, digital media, and contemporary art. They are author of Dragging: Or, In the Drag of a Queer Life (Routledge, 2021) and Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality (SUNY Press, 2013) and co-editor of Black Genders and Sexualities (with Daná-ain Davis) and Zombies and Sexuality (with Steve Jones). Data & Society, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and The Andy Warhol Foundation have supported their work.