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Maddison E Sideris
(She/Her/Hers)
Associate Teaching Fellow | Deakin University
madzs98@hotmail.com
Waurn Ponds, VIC  Australia

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Waurn Ponds, VIC  Australia
madzs98@hotmail.com
Deakin University
Associate Teaching Fellow
5/11/2021

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Joining the TASA community has been one of the best things I have done while undertaking my PhD and beginning my academic journey. TASA has been a safe place for me to begin finding my networks, sharing ideas and building my confidence!
Teaching Fellow
Higher education institution
Part time
Deakin University
Yes
Yes
Full-time PhD student
Affective intimacies: The everyday digital intimate practices of Australian young adults
Digital Intimacies
My doctoral project examines how young people, in their mid-thirties, have negotiated intimate relationships through their digital practices in their transition to adulthood. While their intimate practices were marked by disconnection and labour, they also involved a complex series of time work. I argue that through paying attention to the rhythms of their everyday lives, overarching societal timelines together with everyday digital pressures, this results in an ‘intimacy gap’ in which they demonstrated diverse ways to overcome this through ‘micro-intimacies.’

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CSG Early Career
Families & Relationships
Genders & Sexualities
Sociology of Emotions and Affect
Sociology of Youth

Biography

Maddison (she/her) recently completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne, researching young adults digital intimate practices. Her doctoral work draws on the longitudinal Life Patterns Project, to examine the intimate lives of young adults through their digital practices, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Maddison has a strong passion for exploring how our lives are shaped with and by digital technologies, and their impacts on our personal relationships and socialities. Alongside her doctoral research, she has worked as a research assistant for the longitudinal Life Patterns Project, taught undergraduate units in sociology and presented her work at national and international conferences. Maddison is open to research, teaching, and postdoctoral opportunities where

she can apply her sociological expertise and doctoral training in education to the study of digital socialities and relationships.