Mediated intimacies: bodies, technologies and relationships
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In Ken Plummer’s groundbreaking study on intimacy, he notes that the word intimacy first appears in a Western dictionary in 1632 to mean ‘inmost or innermost thoughts and feelings’ (2003, p. 11). T...
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AI companions simulate intimacy through algorithmically generated responsiveness, persistent conversational memory, and dynamically adaptive emotional cues.
“AI companions simulate intimacy not merely through narrative framing, but through algorithmically generated responsiveness, persistent conversational memory, and dynamically adaptive emotional cues.”
From Toward an Ethic of Synthetic Relationality: Identity, Intimacy, and Risk in AI-Mediated Roleplay Environments (2025) · cites this paper as Attwood, Hakim, and Winch 2017
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- Authors
- Attwood, F., Hakim, J., & Winch, A.
- Affiliations
- Middlesex University London (GB)
- University of East Anglia (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Hakim, Jamie
- Venue
- Journal of Gender Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-04-04
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 249-253
- ISSN
- 0958-9236 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-3869
- OpenAlex
- W2604370793
- Cited by
- 95
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 17.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Gender Studies (publishedVersion)
- UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Bioethics and Human Rights Issues
- Keywords
- intimacy, mediated intimacy, body, relationships, embodiment
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