by Katie Koestner
Technology has become the racing pulse of relationship newness and the flying fingers composing a sext message can type promises of a hook-up later that night. Our heartbeats quicken only to dampen when an image of sexual exploitation, photos sent in post break-up desperation, or the webcam’s capture of the consensual made non-consensual with film.
The platform for relationships in 2010 has shifted over to quicksand with tree vines of face to face communication easing out into brighter air. Facebook’s Honesty Box may be free speech for cowards, and the ego crushing Relationship Status Change before face to face communication about the same have replaced the spoken word rumor mill and locker room gossip. When our “personal” communications become instantly public and permanent through the World Wide Web and indelible imprint of data transmission, how do we even keep secrets anymore?
Katie Koestner, published author, media personality and leading national expert on relationships, sexuality, dating violence, safety and technology, analyzes the current world of relationships with her fully-charged dissection of American Tech Culture’s influence in the simple human endeavor of forming and maintaining meaningful relationships. Take a look at the top legal, financial, social, educational, employment, policy, and gender issues concerning technologies used by college students as they relate to romance. Audience members are challenged to consider their consumption of this online world of messages, images, wikis, bogs, twitter feeds, videos, and applications. Privacy, free speech, defamation, transparency, sexism, addiction, and much more are illustrated through Katie’s illuminating face-paced tour of the World Wide Web, gaming, and technological communication. Katie gets her audience laughing one minute and wide-eyed the next with her tightly woven analysis and informative lecture.
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