_I love you and I'm here for you__ Public Intimacy on Anonymous Digital Platforms.xlsx

Anonymous digital intimate publics (ADIPs) are digital platforms where anonymous posters share intimate stories. Because these platforms are anonymous, conventions such as user profiles, time stamps and ‘likes’ are not part of the site’s functionality. Nonetheless, intimate connections are shared and developed on these sites. Rather than an isolated occurrence, multiple platforms have emerged with similarities in the intimate connection and communication that takes place on ADIPS. This research uses Lauren Berlant’s <i>intimate publics</i> to build a conceptual framework which sees intimacy as a broad and often ephemeral occurrence which creates worlds and connects communities. Building on existing literature in the field of digital intimate publics, this research considers how anonymity and more-than-human actors contribute to the dynamics of ADIPs. This research compares similarities across three ADIPs: <i>Queering the Map</i>, <i>PostSecret</i>, and the City of Melbourne’s tree email program. By ascertaining the thematic similarities of the posts, further theoretical insights can be made about how ADIPs dissolve the artificial divide between public and private, reveal the capacity for intimacy-building in ephemeral and imagined circumstances, and ultimately demonstrate a repeated drive to challenge the current distant norms of contemporary Western intimacy.

匿名数字亲密公众（Anonymous Digital Intimate Publics, ADIPs）指供匿名发布者分享私密故事的数字平台。由于此类平台采用匿名机制，用户资料、时间戳与"点赞"等常规功能均未纳入其系统功能范畴。尽管如此，平台上仍会形成并发展出私密的情感联结。此类平台并非孤立存在，目前已有多个在私密联结与沟通模式上高度相似的平台涌现。本研究以劳伦·伯兰特（Lauren Berlant）的"亲密公众（intimate publics）"理论为基础，搭建概念框架，将亲密关系视作一种宽泛且往往转瞬即逝的现象——它能够构筑情感世界、联结社群。在现有数字亲密公众领域研究的基础上，本研究探讨匿名性与超人类行动者如何共同塑造ADIPs的运行动态。本研究选取三个ADIPs开展对比分析：《Queering the Map》、《PostSecret》以及墨尔本市树木邮件项目（City of Melbourne’s tree email program）。通过解析帖子的主题相似性，可进一步获得理论洞见：ADIPs能够消解公共与私人之间的人为边界，展现出在转瞬即逝与想象性情境中构建亲密关系的潜力，并最终印证了当代西方社会持续挑战现有疏离型亲密关系规范的内在驱动力。