Mila presented VR Lifestyle Survey at “Global Digital Intimacies”, University of Amsterdam
On 28 June, at “Global Digital Intimacies”, University of Amsterdam, Mila (Ludmila Bredikhina) presented titled “Sweet Relationships” in Japan: Navigating Affection through Technology. She also introduced “Social VR Lifestyle Survey 2023.”
27 to 28 June conference “Global Digital Intimacies”, University of Amsterdam
Intimacy holds different meanings and takes various forms across the globe, and thus, in the spirit of decolonial and postcolonial thinking, we encourage participants to reflect and develop alternative interpretations of intimacy, and to avoid universalizing Western-centric understandings of intimacy in their papers. Similarly, digital technologies are used and imagined differently based on historical, cultural, and political contexts. Accordingly, we urge participants to steer clear of both techno-deterministic and cultural essentialist rhetorics, grounding their research in specific localities, but remaining attuned to global entanglements. The conference is explicitly interdisciplinary, bringing together media studies scholars, sociologists, communication researchers, information scientists, anthropologists, philosophers, economists, and legal scholars, among others. The digitization of intimacy requires interdisciplinary collaboration to address the hard questions triggered by this development.
Dates & Times
27 June (starting 9:00 AM, CET) until 28 June (7:00 PM, CET), 2024.Location
University of Amsterdam (downtown) & ZoomSource: Global Digital Intimacies — Global Digital Cultures — University of Amsterdam
Mila presented “Sweet Relationships” in Japan: Navigating Affection through Technology
Social VR Lifestyle Survey 2023
To visualize lifestyles in the Metaverse, we have published a report of a large-scale public survey conducted among users worldwide. This second survey has reached a new record with 2,000 responses, making it the largest to date. Thank you for your cooperation. We focused on highly requested themes: “changes due to rapid population growth,” “community,” and “economy.” To stimulate open discussions about the future of humanity and the Metaverse, we are offering the complete 80-page report for free. We are welcome for your feedback.
