Cs326a Digital Intimacies

**Date**:May 15, 2025

**Location**: Waterloo, CA

**Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University

**Faculty/Academic Area**: Faculty of Arts

**Department**: Communication Studies

**Campus**: Waterloo

**Employee Group**: WLUFA

**Requisition ID**:9434

**Position Title**: CS326A Digital Intimacies

**Term**: Fall 2025 (September 1-December 31)

**Days/Times**: Mondays 0830-1120

**Hours per week/Hours Total**: 3/36

**Type of Course**:In-class

**Anticipated Class Size**: 50

**Additional Course Requirements**: None

**Posted on**: May 14, 2025

**Posting ends**: June 4, 2025

**Position Summary**:
Surveys the conjunction of intimacy and digital culture. Drawing on both communication studies and cultural studies concepts and frameworks, the course examines different approaches to critical intimacies—close connections that matter, and upon which people build their lives and experiences. It addresses both digital sexualities (e.g., online sexual subcultures, sexting, the online pornography industry, and VR sex) and broader forms of intimacy in digital spaces (e.g., friending, fandoms, social media, video game relationships, and virtual communities).

**Qualifications - Required**: PhD

**Qualifications - Discipline**: Communication Studies or cognate discipline

**Qualifications - Areas of Specialization**:
**Qualifications - Professional Designation**:
**Application Deadline**: June 4, 2025

**Submit with Application**:
Required for All Applicants
- CV (required)

Required for External Applicants
- Names and Contact Information for Referees
- Evidence of Good Teaching
- Verification of highest degree

Optional
- Cover Letter highlighting teaching and research experience relevant to the posted course
- Teaching Dossier: may include material such as statement of teaching philosophy, past taught syllabi, prospective syllabi/course outlines (can be shorter than a full syllabus and up to two pages), teaching evaluations (only original institutional records will be considered, not summaries nor selected excerpts), other evidence of good teaching (such as teaching awards, letters from colleagues assessing teaching, workshops and training).- Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum)

**Applications may be addressed to**:
Communication Studies Part-time Appointment Committee

Department of Communication Studies

**To Apply**:
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