Call for Proposals:

“Digital Intimacies”
Bloomsbury Academic Book Series
http://commlist.org/archive/all/2025-all/msg00474.html

Series Editors:
Kath Albury, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia/
Jamie Hakim, King’s College, London, UK/
John Mercer, Birmingham City University, UK/
Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, University of Padova, Italy/

We are delighted to announce a new book series for Bloomsbury Academic on Digital Intimacies. Please consider submitting a proposal.

Over the past 30 years cultures of intimacy have been transformed by the internet and its related technologies. This series will provide a platform for cutting-edge digital intimacies scholarship from both established and emerging academics. The series editors welcome proposals on all aspects of digital intimacies research, including widely recognised topics such as social media platforms and dating apps in relation to gender, sexuality, and kinship. Additionally, the series seeks to explore underexamined dimensions of digital intimacy, such as class, race and ethnicity, disability, the post human, sexual health, migration, conflict, and perspectives from the Global South. It will also attend to the underexplored aspects of the technologies that produce them – e.g. AI and intimacy, the datafication of intimacy, the political economy of digital intimacies, media representations of digital intimacies, and gaming and intimacy.

We are looking for proposals on topics including:

• Intersectional Dimensions of Digital Intimacy (e.g. Race, Sexuality, Class, Gender, Disability, Generation)
• Digital Sexual Cultures
• Digital Kinships
• Digital Friendship
• Digital Cultures of Care
• Digital Health Cultures
• Online Pornographies
• Digital Intimacies, Harm and Violence
• Intimacies in the age of Streaming
• The Datafication of Intimacy
• AI and Intimacy

A book proposal form is available at: http://bit.ly/BookProposalInfo

Please direct submissions and enquiries to Bloomsbury editor Olivia Dellow at olivia.dellow@bloomsbury.com.