Platformed intimacies: Professional belonging on social media

This article explores how social media presence and platform engagements inform affect creative workers’ sense of professional agency craft. Focusing on Finnish theatre, film TV actors’ perceptions their interactions, the proposes concept platformed intimacy to capture simultaneous importance ambivalence mobile attachments that characterise lives. The research participants consisted 15 freelancers theatre employees, aged between 29 64 years. analysis was based diary-interview method close reading. In this article, we suggest understand complexities involved in platforms, it is important broaden investigation from self-promotion questions identities communities. captures actors experience network sites apps, such as Instagram Facebook, ‘grey areas’ which they deal with frequent uncertainty about meaning visibility for employability future collaborations. For our study, intimately entangled professionalism desire belong a community peers. As articulates senses proximity reciprocity well feelings discomfort anxiety.