Media Usage and Intimacies in the Next Generation

We are faced with both the progress of mobile media technology and the rise of new communication modes. We maintain close relations using a smartphone, a tablet and PC at every place. Furthermore, we use dating app as well as the maintenance of close human relations to look for a romantic partner or a marriage partner. In this way, there are many reports about new types of human relations and the self transforms.

This session tries to examine how people have a value of their intimacy in new era. A confrontation was clearly shown in the struggling to sublate the intimacy of the old type and a new type now. The new intimacy can assume a fan dam, various forms including the relations with the character in the two-dimensional world like Otaku culture, as well as the relations between close human beings. We will argue about intimacy in the next generation.