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Within the landscape of Japanese media production, and video game production in particular, there is a niche comprising video games centered around establishing, developing, and fulfilling imagined intimate relationships with anime-manga characters. Such niche, although very significant in production volume and lifespan, is left unexplored or underexplored. When it is not, it is subsumed within the scope of wider anime-manga media. This obscures the nature of such video games, alternatively identified with descriptors including but not limited to ‘visual novel’, ‘dating simulator’ and ‘adult computer game’. As games centered around developing intimacy with characters, they present specific ensembles of narrative content, aesthetics and software mechanics. These ensembles are aimed at eliciting in users what are, by all intents and purposes, parasocial phenomena towards the game’s characters. In other words, these software products encourage players to develop affective and bodily responses towards characters. They are set in a way that is coherent with shared, circulating scripts for sexual and intimate interaction to guide player imaginative action. This study defines games such as the above as ‘character intimacy games’, video game software where traversal is contingent on players knowingly establishing, developing, and fulfilling intimate bonds with fictional characters. To do so, however, player must recognize themselves as playing that type of game, and to be looking to develop that kind of response towards the game’s characters. Character Intimacy Games are contingent upon player developing affective and bodily responses, and thus presume that players are, at the very least, non-hostile towards their development. This study approaches Japanese character intimacy games as its corpus, and operates at the intersection of studies of communication, AMO studies and games studies. The study articulates a research approach based on the double need of approaching single works of significance amidst a general scarcity of scholarly background on the subject. It juxtaposes data-driven approaches derived from fan-curated databases – The Visual Novel Database and Erogescape -Erogē Hyōron Kūkan – with a purpose-created ludo-hermeneutic process. By deploying an observation of character intimacy games through fan-curated data and building ludo-hermeneutics on the resulting ontology, this study argues that character intimacy games are video games where traversal is contingent on players knowingly establishing, developing, and fulfilling intimate bonds with fictional characters and recognizing themselves as doing so. To produce such conditions, the assemblage of software mechanics and narrative content in such games facilitates intimacy between player and characters. This is, ultimately, conductive to the emergence of parasocial phenomena. Parasocial phenomena, in turn, are deployed as an integral assumption regarding player activity within the game’s wider assemblage of narrative content and software mechanics.

With this project I want to know how the earlier sex education has affected queer peoples experiences with sex and start a discussion of the new sexual education curriculum and if the changes to the curriculum were too late or not. My goal is to get the new generation of queer people to not forget to keep fighting for the rights that we got and to show everyone outside of the queer community the exclusivity that we have faced for years within a topic not a lot of people are talking about. To do this I interviewed queer people to get their insights and experiences from their sex education and tell their stories of exclusivity through photographic zine.

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This study explored the extent of triangulation between elderly people and their adult children, and examines the relationship of triangulation with marital and individual outcomes such as problem solving, negative affective communication, time spent together, intimacy, depression, and marital satisfaction. Triangulation between adult children and elderly parents was found to be strongly related with negative outcomes for elderly parents in each of the dependent variables.

Married couples aged 55-98 were surveyed regarding their perceptions of family-of-origin distress, their affective communication and problem solving communication skills, and their emotional intimacy. Two 2-way ANOVAs were performed with husbands' (model 1) and wives' (model 2) emotional intimacy scores as dependent measures and family-of-origin distress scores as the independent measures. Then both models were re-analyzed with affective communication and problem solving communication entered as co-variates. Results suggested that for both husbands and wives, emotional intimacy was affected by family-of-origin distress. Additionally, intimacy was affected by the distress in their spouses' family-of-origin in both models. Post-hoc analyses suggested that as long as at least one member of the couple reports low family-of-origin distress, intimacy does not suffer for either spouse. Taking communication variables into account rendered the effects of family-of-origin distress non-significant in both models. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for psychoanalytic, systemic, and developmental theory.

Denna kvalitativa studie undersöker hur och varför användare av sociala medier sprider sin aktivitet över flera av dessa samtidigt. Fokus låg på de tre sociala medierna Facebook, Instagram och Snapchat. Studien genomfördes genom att hålla parintervjuer med användare av dessa medier för att sedan applicera det erhållna resultatet på ramverket kontextuell integritet. Resultatet av studien är intressant för de företag som utvecklar och använder sig av sociala medier och även för framtida forskning inom ämnet. Vår studie visade en skillnad i delandet av information över de tre sociala medierna. Den främsta orsaken till skillnaden identifierades som storleken på kontaktnäten hos medierna, och dess inverkan på vad som upplevdes vara ett intrång i den personliga integriteten när information delades. Förutom den ökade visibiliteten som kommer med ett större kontaktnät hade det även inverkan på den underliggande aktiviteten på mediet vilket kan ses som en orsak till ett minskande av aktivt användande. De slutsatser som drogs kring framtiden var att sociala medier, både dagens och framtida, måste ge användarna ett alternativ att dela in sitt kontaktnät  i grupper. Alternativt att de sociala medierna själva måste bli nischade för en specifik del av användarnas kontaktnät. Detta kommer tillåta användarna att dela accepterbar information i lämpliga kanaler. / This qualitative study examines how and why users of social media distribute their activity over several of these at the sametime. Focus was on the three social media sites of Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. The study was carried through bykeeping paired interviews with users of these sites and then applying the results on the framework of contextual integrity .The result of the study is interesting both for companies developing and using social media sites, as well as for futureresearch in the field. The results showed a difference in the sharing of information across the three different sites. The foremost cause to thedifference was identified to be the size of the social networks on the sites, and the influence this had on what was perceivedas an intrusion in the privacy of the user when the information was shared. Aside from the increased visibility that comeswith a larger social network, it also affected the underlying activity of the social medium. Which can be seen as a reason fora decreasing active use. The conclusions about the future were that social media, today and in the future, have to give theusers an alternative to separate their social network on the sites into separate groups. Alternatively that the social media sitesthemselves has to become niched for a specific part of a user's social network. This will allow the users to share acceptableinformation in suitable channels.