Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network
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Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
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The special issue on Authortarianism in the Digital Age is now live (eds. @kylzjarrett.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @steelecat717.bsky.social and Jing Hiah). It is comprised of 48 commentaries from around the world exploring how the digital is implicated in creeping authoritarianism.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The special issue on Authortarianism in the Digital Age is now live (eds. @kylzjarrett.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @steelecat717.bsky.social and Jing Hiah). It is comprised of 48 commentaries from around the world exploring how the digital is implicated in creeping authoritarianism.
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I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...
Researcher / PhD Position (m/f/d)
The Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) conducts research into the acquisition and sharing of knowledge and cooperation with digital media. The institute is a member of the Leibniz Association (L...
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June 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...
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This paper examines a rapidly expanding human–nonhuman digital intimacy. We explore how women players form deep affective attachments with virtual male characters in women-oriented otome games in their everyday life💫 A core contribution is our proposal of the concept “digital intimacy literacies.”
✨Thrilled to share our new article published in Information, Communication & Society: “Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games”！！！ 🥳 💥 🎉
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games
This article explores the concept of ‘digital intimacy literacies’ by analyzing how Chinese women gamers form deep emotional connections with virtual male characters in otome games. The study exami...
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This paper examines a rapidly expanding human–nonhuman digital intimacy. We explore how women players form deep affective attachments with virtual male characters in women-oriented otome games in their everyday life💫 A core contribution is our proposal of the concept “digital intimacy literacies.”
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We often dismiss AI hallucinations as mere technical failures or epistemic risks. In this article,I propose a different perspective: these generative anomalies act as hermeneutic knots: sites where algorithmic noise and human agency entangle to produce new modes of meaning-making
🆕Publication Arrived!!! Are AI hallucinations bugs to be fixed, or the start of a new kind of creativity? My new paper, "Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity," explores how we might move beyond binary framings of AI errors. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
We often dismiss AI hallucinations as mere technical failures or epistemic risks. In this article,I propose a different perspective: these generative anomalies act as hermeneutic knots: sites where algorithmic noise and human agency entangle to produce new modes of meaning-making
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🔹I argue for sympoietic creativity:a collaborative practice where humans curate machine stochasticity rather than simply commanding a tool
This work challenges us to harness AI's disruptive potential for posthuman futures while maintaining strict ethical vigilance.
This work challenges us to harness AI's disruptive potential for posthuman futures while maintaining strict ethical vigilance.
We often dismiss AI hallucinations as mere technical failures or epistemic risks. In this article,I propose a different perspective: these generative anomalies act as hermeneutic knots: sites where algorithmic noise and human agency entangle to produce new modes of meaning-making
🆕Publication Arrived!!! Are AI hallucinations bugs to be fixed, or the start of a new kind of creativity? My new paper, "Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity," explores how we might move beyond binary framings of AI errors. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🔹I argue for sympoietic creativity:a collaborative practice where humans curate machine stochasticity rather than simply commanding a tool
This work challenges us to harness AI's disruptive potential for posthuman futures while maintaining strict ethical vigilance.
This work challenges us to harness AI's disruptive potential for posthuman futures while maintaining strict ethical vigilance.
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🆕Publication Arrived!!! Are AI hallucinations bugs to be fixed, or the start of a new kind of creativity? My new paper, "Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity," explores how we might move beyond binary framings of AI errors. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🆕Publication Arrived!!! Are AI hallucinations bugs to be fixed, or the start of a new kind of creativity? My new paper, "Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity," explores how we might move beyond binary framings of AI errors. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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🔹 The Fluency Trade-off: I analyze why models like DeepSeek-R1 (with a higher hallucination rate) differ from factual optimizers like ChatGPT-o1. The paper examines how "Chain-of-Thought" reasoning enhances creativity but inherently amplifies "spectral" outputs.
We often dismiss AI hallucinations as mere technical failures or epistemic risks. In this article,I propose a different perspective: these generative anomalies act as hermeneutic knots: sites where algorithmic noise and human agency entangle to produce new modes of meaning-making
🆕Publication Arrived!!! Are AI hallucinations bugs to be fixed, or the start of a new kind of creativity? My new paper, "Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity," explores how we might move beyond binary framings of AI errors. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🔹 The Fluency Trade-off: I analyze why models like DeepSeek-R1 (with a higher hallucination rate) differ from factual optimizers like ChatGPT-o1. The paper examines how "Chain-of-Thought" reasoning enhances creativity but inherently amplifies "spectral" outputs.
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In "A plea for promiscuous creativity", Jeroen de Kloet employs the notion of promiscuity to emphasise creativity’s collaborative relationality and move beyond its anthropocentric underpinnings. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
In "A plea for promiscuous creativity", Jeroen de Kloet employs the notion of promiscuity to emphasise creativity’s collaborative relationality and move beyond its anthropocentric underpinnings. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
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📚 Book Announcement
Our edited volume Global South Creator Cultures is coming soon from @routledgebooks.bsky.social - pre-order on 24 November, out on 15 December 2025! 🎉 @mediaindustries.bsky.social
Our edited volume Global South Creator Cultures is coming soon from @routledgebooks.bsky.social - pre-order on 24 November, out on 15 December 2025! 🎉 @mediaindustries.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
📚 Book Announcement
Our edited volume Global South Creator Cultures is coming soon from @routledgebooks.bsky.social - pre-order on 24 November, out on 15 December 2025! 🎉 @mediaindustries.bsky.social
Our edited volume Global South Creator Cultures is coming soon from @routledgebooks.bsky.social - pre-order on 24 November, out on 15 December 2025! 🎉 @mediaindustries.bsky.social
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We use the term “digital intimacy literacies” to describe the set of socio-technical, affective, sensory, and narrative competencies through which women players learn to interpret, negotiate, and cultivate intimate relationships in digital environments.
✨Thrilled to share our new article published in Information, Communication & Society: “Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games”！！！ 🥳 💥 🎉
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games
This article explores the concept of ‘digital intimacy literacies’ by analyzing how Chinese women gamers form deep emotional connections with virtual male characters in otome games. The study exami...
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We use the term “digital intimacy literacies” to describe the set of socio-technical, affective, sensory, and narrative competencies through which women players learn to interpret, negotiate, and cultivate intimate relationships in digital environments.
Reposted by Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network
✨Thrilled to share our new article published in Information, Communication & Society: “Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games”！！！ 🥳 💥 🎉
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games
This article explores the concept of ‘digital intimacy literacies’ by analyzing how Chinese women gamers form deep emotional connections with virtual male characters in otome games. The study exami...
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
✨Thrilled to share our new article published in Information, Communication & Society: “Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games”！！！ 🥳 💥 🎉
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world?
From AI companions and digital platforms to gaming and embodied technologies, digital media are reshaping how we connect, care, and desire across cultures.
How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world?
From AI companions and digital platforms to gaming and embodied technologies, digital media are reshaping how we connect, care, and desire across cultures.
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Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
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Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
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How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world? The Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network brings together global researchers to explore diverse experiences of connection, affect, an...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🌏 Join the Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network (TransDI)!
How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world?
From AI companions and digital platforms to gaming and embodied technologies, digital media are reshaping how we connect, care, and desire across cultures.
How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world?
From AI companions and digital platforms to gaming and embodied technologies, digital media are reshaping how we connect, care, and desire across cultures.
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The TransDI critically explores how technologies blur boundaries between online/offline lives and human/non-human connections.We bring together global researchers to examine the shifting landscapes of connection, affect, and sociality in digital cultures.🥳🥳🥳
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Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
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Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
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How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world? The Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network brings together global researchers to explore diverse experiences of connection, affect, an...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The TransDI critically explores how technologies blur boundaries between online/offline lives and human/non-human connections.We bring together global researchers to examine the shifting landscapes of connection, affect, and sociality in digital cultures.🥳🥳🥳
Chaired by Dr Liang Ge (University of Manchester) and Dr Tingting Hu (University of Liverpool), TransDI is expanding its community of scholars, artists, and practitioners interested in digital intimacies, transcultural communication, and mediated relationships. We now have over 90 members worldwide❤️
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Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
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Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
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How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world? The Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network brings together global researchers to explore diverse experiences of connection, affect, an...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Chaired by Dr Liang Ge (University of Manchester) and Dr Tingting Hu (University of Liverpool), TransDI is expanding its community of scholars, artists, and practitioners interested in digital intimacies, transcultural communication, and mediated relationships. We now have over 90 members worldwide❤️
The TransDI critically explores how technologies blur boundaries between online/offline lives and human/non-human connections.We bring together global researchers to examine the shifting landscapes of connection, affect, and sociality in digital cultures.🥳🥳🥳
💌 Join and Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on upcoming events, collaborations, and opportunities:
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Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
👉 www.liangge.blog/transdi-subs...
Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
TransDI Network Subscription
How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world? The Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network brings together global researchers to explore diverse experiences of connection, affect, an...
www.liangge.blog
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The TransDI critically explores how technologies blur boundaries between online/offline lives and human/non-human connections.We bring together global researchers to examine the shifting landscapes of connection, affect, and sociality in digital cultures.🥳🥳🥳
🌏 Join the Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network (TransDI)!
How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world?
From AI companions and digital platforms to gaming and embodied technologies, digital media are reshaping how we connect, care, and desire across cultures.
How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world?
From AI companions and digital platforms to gaming and embodied technologies, digital media are reshaping how we connect, care, and desire across cultures.
💌 Join and Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on upcoming events, collaborations, and opportunities:
👉 www.liangge.blog/transdi-subs...
Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
👉 www.liangge.blog/transdi-subs...
Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
TransDI Network Subscription
How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world? The Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network brings together global researchers to explore diverse experiences of connection, affect, an...
www.liangge.blog
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🌏 Join the Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network (TransDI)!
How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world?
From AI companions and digital platforms to gaming and embodied technologies, digital media are reshaping how we connect, care, and desire across cultures.
How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world?
From AI companions and digital platforms to gaming and embodied technologies, digital media are reshaping how we connect, care, and desire across cultures.
💌 Join and Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on upcoming events, collaborations, and opportunities:
👉 www.liangge.blog/transdi-subs...
Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
👉 www.liangge.blog/transdi-subs...
Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
TransDI Network Subscription
How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world? The Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network brings together global researchers to explore diverse experiences of connection, affect, an...
www.liangge.blog
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
💌 Join and Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on upcoming events, collaborations, and opportunities:
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Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
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Let’s explore together how intimacy, technology, and culture intersect in today’s digital world.
Folks, please check out Liang's new mini documentary with the ARD German Media: In Love with An AI youtu.be/tIgXRkEPlZ8?...
China: Verliebt in eine KI (China: In Love with an AI)
YouTube video by Ryou L Ge
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September 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Folks, please check out Liang's new mini documentary with the ARD German Media: In Love with An AI youtu.be/tIgXRkEPlZ8?...
Big congrats! Folks! Do check this out for the fascinating documentary on falling in love with AI and women video game players! 🥳🥰🤩!!!
It’s a very pleasant experience to work with Marie von Mallinckrodt and her team from ARD Germany on this mini-documentary project: In love with an AI 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳!
Plz check it out here:
www.ardmediathek.de/video/weltsp...
Plz check it out here:
www.ardmediathek.de/video/weltsp...
Weltspiegel: China: Verliebt in eine KI - hier anschauen
Millionen Chinesinnen spielen sogenannte „Dating Games“: Sie verlieben sich in eine virtuelle Figur auf einer spielerischen Ebene. Sehr viel ernster: Manche unterhalten sich so intensiv mit dem Chatbo...
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September 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Big congrats! Folks! Do check this out for the fascinating documentary on falling in love with AI and women video game players! 🥳🥰🤩!!!
It's Open Access! Please do have a look if you are interested in women and (women-oriented) video games and the very datafication process of digital intimacies!
Check out Tingting and Liang's New Pub from their Posthuman Digital Intimacies project! This time, it's about otome games and the datafication of digital intimacies: Datafication of Digital Intimacy: The Dual Logic of Empowerment and Commodification. Games and Culture. doi.org/10.1177/1555...
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July 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
It's Open Access! Please do have a look if you are interested in women and (women-oriented) video games and the very datafication process of digital intimacies!
Check out Tingting and Liang's New Pub from their Posthuman Digital Intimacies project! This time, it's about otome games and the datafication of digital intimacies: Datafication of Digital Intimacy: The Dual Logic of Empowerment and Commodification. Games and Culture. doi.org/10.1177/1555...
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July 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Check out Tingting and Liang's New Pub from their Posthuman Digital Intimacies project! This time, it's about otome games and the datafication of digital intimacies: Datafication of Digital Intimacy: The Dual Logic of Empowerment and Commodification. Games and Culture. doi.org/10.1177/1555...
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We argue for examining how media technologies and transnational cultural flows across diverse Asian contexts shape, circulate and contest queernesses and Asian-nesses, offering rich ground for epistemological and methodological innovation❤️
✨New Pub Day! Since our Queer Asia as Method roundtable in 2021, our special issue Queer Asia as Method has now been published online first by Media Culture & Society!
Our editorial piece is here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
Our editorial piece is here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
Editorial introduction: Queer Asia as Method - Liang Ge, J Daniel Luther, Eva Cheuk-Yin Li, 2025
This introduction outlines the theoretical and methodological interventions proposed by the Crosscurrent special section, Queer Asia as Method, which interrogat...
doi.org
July 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We argue for examining how media technologies and transnational cultural flows across diverse Asian contexts shape, circulate and contest queernesses and Asian-nesses, offering rich ground for epistemological and methodological innovation❤️
Reposted by Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network
✨New Pub Day! Since our Queer Asia as Method roundtable in 2021, our special issue Queer Asia as Method has now been published online first by Media Culture & Society!
Our editorial piece is here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
Our editorial piece is here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
Editorial introduction: Queer Asia as Method - Liang Ge, J Daniel Luther, Eva Cheuk-Yin Li, 2025
This introduction outlines the theoretical and methodological interventions proposed by the Crosscurrent special section, Queer Asia as Method, which interrogat...
doi.org
July 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
✨New Pub Day! Since our Queer Asia as Method roundtable in 2021, our special issue Queer Asia as Method has now been published online first by Media Culture & Society!
Our editorial piece is here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
Our editorial piece is here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
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❤️Our Queer Asia as Method framework challenges the Euro-American dominance often found within queer studies by centring the intricate, fluid intersections of ‘queernesses’ and ‘Asias’
✨New Pub Day! Since our Queer Asia as Method roundtable in 2021, our special issue Queer Asia as Method has now been published online first by Media Culture & Society!
Our editorial piece is here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
Our editorial piece is here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
Editorial introduction: Queer Asia as Method - Liang Ge, J Daniel Luther, Eva Cheuk-Yin Li, 2025
This introduction outlines the theoretical and methodological interventions proposed by the Crosscurrent special section, Queer Asia as Method, which interrogat...
doi.org
July 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
❤️Our Queer Asia as Method framework challenges the Euro-American dominance often found within queer studies by centring the intricate, fluid intersections of ‘queernesses’ and ‘Asias’