This article contributes to the growing literature on youth sexualities and intimacy, by centring lived experiences of self-identified gay in eastern Indian city Kolkata. It draws interview narratives thirteen between ages 19 26, living Kolkata, unpack two inter-locking ways which these sexual minority co-construct intimacy within urban space: (a) as verbal non-verbal disclosure (b) embodied in...

Abstract In this article I describe the transition of a group university students in Australia into an online learning environment during COVID-19 pandemic disruptions. reflect upon my intersubjective experiences as lecturer unexpected situation urgency and physical distancing. Research has acknowledged synchronous virtual contexts less psychologically distancing than previously thought. argue ...

This research focuses on offspring's perceptions of their parents' usage of conditional regard and autonomy-supportive practices in response to the offspring's experiences of negative emotion. Participants were 174 college students (60% were females). As predicted from self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000), students' perceptions of parents as hinging their regard on students' expression...

Online social network applications explicitly define “friends” with equally weighted links among people. While it is necessary to treat every friend equally from the aspect of expanding friends networks, it is not suitable to do so for context aware services which provide users appropriate information from friend in proper timing. In this paper, we focus on wide spread smartphones and use them ...